OverviewPurpose of Position
LSAC is seeking a Vice President for Strategic Initiatives to support the continuing definition, development, and execution of LSAC’s strategic vision. As a key member of the executive leadership team and in partnership with the President and CEO (President) and senior leadership, the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives identifies growth opportunities, evaluates market trends, and drives enterprise-wide transformation to advance the mission. The person in this position will work closely with the President to carry out special initiatives assigned by the President.
Applications will be accepted through October 30, 2026.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The individual employed in this position will be required to:
Strategic Collaborative Leadership
- Support the implementation of LSAC's strategic priorities, in partnership with the leadership team. Advise President on alignment, shaping, and prioritization of strategic initiatives.
- Facilitate recurring strategic planning, roadmap updates, and adjustments through discussions with the leadership team.
- Advise the President and Board of Trustees on strategic opportunities, risk and risk management, and developments in the legal education ecosystem and assessments field.
- In collaboration with the leadership team, translate organizational vision into measurable strategic objectives and initiatives.
- Collaborate with senior leaders to streamline initiatives, work with teams across the organization to define priorities, track progress, and adjust prioritization as needed.
People Leadership
- Lead and grow a high-performing, multidisciplinary team, encouraging collaboration, communication, accountability, and innovation in day-to-day work across the organization.
- Develop and manage departmental budgets within a team with a focus on impact, agility, and long-term value.
Business Initiatives
- Identify and evaluate new market opportunities, products, services, and business models.
- Drive mission-based growth initiatives that strengthen LSAC’s work in supporting legal education.
- Assess strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and other collaborative opportunities to advance LSAC’s mission; partner with Legal and Finance to conduct due diligence and assess the financial and operational impacts of such partnerships.
- Support collaborative work in the legal education, higher education, and prelaw community.
Business Intelligence
- Monitor industry trends, emerging legislation that impacts legal education, competitive activities, and market needs.
- Conduct market analysis and provide strategic recommendations to President and leadership team.
- Develop frameworks to anticipate disruptions and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
- Integrate legal education research findings and trends into LSAC strategic priorities and goals.
- Promote research, analysis and guidance on legal education to continue LSAC’s position as a thought leader in the legal education profession.
Enterprise Transformation and Innovation
- Lead enterprise-wide transformation and change initiatives through project management, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate implementation of strategic projects that improve organizational effectiveness and value to stakeholders.
- Align strategic priorities with operational execution.
Performance Management
- Establish and monitor performance metrics tied to strategic objectives.
- Track progress against strategic plans and communicate results internally and externally, so staff, member schools, the Board and other stakeholders understand LSAC’s priorities and how those goals advance the mission.
- Recommend adjustments based on performance and market conditions.
Executive and Board Engagement
- Prepare strategic presentations and recommendations for executive leadership and the Board of Trustees.
- Influence decision-making through data-driven insights and business analysis.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team.
- Work with external audiences, as appropriate, to represent LSAC and its work.
- Complete projects as assigned by the President.
Competencies
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong sense of accountability for both individual and team objectives.
- Forward-thinking mindset, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and creativity.
- Exceptional trust and relationship building skills along with the necessary diplomacy and tact to collaborate and partner with a variety of internal and external stakeholders; must be able to manage interpersonal relations with empathy and integrity.
- Excellent time management, prioritization, attention to detail and organization skills
- Strategic thinking with the ability to execute vision into meaningful work with measurable results.
- Financial and business acumen.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise confidentiality and sound independent judgment.
- Ability to relate to law school volunteers, legal educators, associations, and staff in an effective manner.
- Willingness and aptitude to learn accessibility best practices and standards when creating shared work product.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required. J.D. degree strongly preferred.
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in strategy, consulting, higher education, operations, or other related industries. Minimum of three (3) years managing people and leading teams.
- Experience leading enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership, external boards, and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success developing, communicating and executing growth strategies.
- Familiarity with the goals, operations, and legal needs of academic institutions, particularly law schools, or not-for-profit, membership organizations required.
Additional Information
Supervisory Responsibilities: This role has people management responsibilities. The position will oversee the Business Intelligence and Initiatives, Applied Research, Legal Education Strategy and Project Management teams.
Position Type: This is an exempt position. The LSAC standard business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET. While these are the standard office hours for LSAC, as an exempt employee, the employee will be expected to work the hours necessary to satisfactorily complete their assignments in a responsible and professional manner.
Work Environment: This job operates in a remote and professional office environment. Whether remote or in-office, this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Location: Remote
Travel Requirements: Up to 25% travel time is required for this position.
Reports to: President and CEO
Salary range: $245,000-$275,000
LSAC will be accepting applications through October 30, 2026.
