Culture Consultants

Career Opportunities with Public Impact, LLC

We are currently building a pool of strong candidates for consulting roles supporting the Opportunity Culture ® initiative at Public Impact ® . Our projected workload for 2026 is growing, and we are now recruiting qualified candidates for anticipated
start dates between Feb. 1 - Sept. 1, 2026

We will review applications on a rolling basis. To be considered for early February start dates, please apply by 12:00 midnight EST on January 4, 2026
. Additional benchmark deadlines for start dates spring/summer 2026:
February 15, March 20, April 12
.

Note:

If you submitted an application for our fall/winter 2025-26 consultant posting, you do not need to reapply.

Public Impact ®
is a national education management consulting firm
, based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Our mission is to improve education dramatically for all students, especially students whose needs have not yet been well met. We collaborate with teachers and school and system leaders to implement changes that will help the students they serve, and believe that if we focus on a core set of promising strategies for change, we and our partners and clients can make bold improvements for all students, with long‑term financial sustainability and success.

Consultants work on teams facilitating Opportunity Culture ® school transformations, using Multi‑Classroom Leader ® roles, Team Reach™ roles, advanced paraprofessional positions, and other innovative strategies to boost student learning and educator pay. Consultants support school and district design teams made up of teachers and administrators to plan, implement and improve new roles, schedules, budgets, and instructional changes, including small‑group tutoring. Team members may also work on other projects, such as delivering professional learning experiences for OC™ educators, coaching teacher‑leaders and principals, designing innovations, and creating/editing materials.

Career advancement includes increasingly complex and large project team leadership, people management, increasing technical expertise to improve results, and outreach to serve more students nationally.

• Guide educators and other leaders to design and implement Opportunity Culture ® School Design and instructional excellence, with significant support and guidance from experienced Public Impact ® teammates.
• Learn from and be developed by colleagues with substantial experience collaborating with educators to implement school design models that achieve high‑growth student learning, field‑leading teacher satisfaction, and world‑class client satisfaction ratings.
• Support clients to design and improve Opportunity Culture ® implementation by following certification and validation standards correlated with student learning.
• Contribute to sales efforts to reach more students with Opportunity Culture ® models by identifying potential new clients and funding sources, drafting scopes of work, participating in sales calls, and other outreach efforts.
• Use meticulously‑honed materials and steps, edited annually to reflect data, research, and PI’s decade+ of experience collaborating with educators to redesign schools.
• Contribute to ongoing innovation for stronger results and processes.
• Participate in and later lead collaborative, diverse client/colleague teams of increasing size and complexity.
• Present Public Impact ® work accurately and influentially, in writing and speaking.
• Produce excellent technical work that impacts students and educators positively.

We are recruiting for entry/early‑mid‑level roles only at this time, because we have an exceptional advanced professional and leadership corps, which new entrants will join as they learn and OC™ grows.

• Either of the following:
  • 5+ years of teaching or other relevant, school‑based or service‑oriented experience and demonstrated leadership competencies;
  • OR 2‑4 years of teaching or other relevant experience, plus 1‑2 years of a leadership role such as instructional coach, or similar;
  • OR 2‑4 years of teaching or other relevant experience, plus formal training in leadership and/or systems change through a graduate degree in policy,…