[Hiring] Board Member @The Andrews Group

Role Description

Michigan Virtual seeks accomplished executive leaders to serve on its nonprofit Board of Directors. Acting as Ambassadors, Board members provide strategic governance, fiduciary oversight, and executive counsel while helping advance innovation in learning, teaching, and educational technology across Michigan.

The “Why”: our Board of Directors Volunteer To Serve To:

• Help shape the future of education during a period of unprecedented change.
• Collaborate with respected leaders from education, business, technology, and government.
• Apply executive leadership experience to issues that affect students across Michigan.
• Influence statewide innovation in AI, workforce readiness, and educational transformation.
• Help ensure Michigan remains a national leader in digital learning.
• Leave a lasting legacy for future generations of learners.

What You’ll Experience:

• Engage in thoughtful strategic conversations.
• Learn from respected leaders across sectors.
• Contribute to statewide education policy discussions.
• Help anticipate emerging trends.
• Participate in governance that emphasizes innovation over administration.

What You Can Expect:

• Quarterly in-person Board meetings.
• Term limits (3-year terms, renewable 3 times).
• Service on a Board Committee.
• No philanthropic gift requirement.
• Board colleagues with exceptional talents and background.

Core Board Responsibilities:

• Mission and strategy: Help refine, protect, and advance the organization’s public-purpose mission.
• Fiduciary oversight: Approve annual budgets, review financial performance, audits, risk, and sustainability.
• Executive partnership: Support, advise, and evaluate the President & CEO through the Board’s established processes.
• Policy and accountability: Ensure ethical conduct, transparency, compliance, and effective governance practices.
• External leadership: Open doors, build relationships, and strengthen partnerships in strategic areas.
• Inclusive stewardship: Bring diverse perspectives, lived experience, and disciplined judgment to decisions that affect learners statewide.

Qualifications

• Think strategically.
• Embrace innovation.
• Enjoy solving complex challenges.
• Ask courageous questions.
• Build consensus.
• Be curious about emerging technology.

Requirements

• Experience in Finance.
• Experience in Manufacturing.
• Experience in Healthcare.
• Experience in HR.
• Experience in Technology.

Benefits

• Engagement in impactful initiatives to support Michigan’s K-12 system.
• Opportunity to help schools and educators navigate innovation.
• Positioning as thought leaders in forecasting and adapting to emerging trends in the future of learning.

Company Description

Established in 1998, Michigan Virtual is a nationally recognized educational non-profit organization that serves as a statewide champion for online and digital learning in Michigan. Headquartered in Lansing, we serve K-12 students, educators, schools, and districts across all of Michigan. We bring together the best in people and technology to maximize learning and teaching by serving as a laboratory for educational innovation.

• We conduct original research, pilot emerging approaches, and work directly with districts to design and implement solutions that improve teaching and learning.
• We translate work into practice through high-quality online courses for students, professional development programming for educators, and partnerships that position us as a change agent, service provider, and capacity builder for schools across Michigan.
• Last year, Michigan Virtual served more than 95% of all local school districts in the state, nearly 100% of charter schools, and approximately 75% of all nonpublic schools in Michigan.

Mission: Maximize learning and teaching by bringing together the best in people and technology.

Vision: Be Michigan’s leader for innovation in education.

Our Story: We’re committed to making a difference in K-12 education.

• Put Learners First — We believe learners are central to our mission and vision.
• Act with Integrity — We are respectful, honest, accountable, and trustworthy with each other and our stakeholders.
• Cultivate Creativity — We inspire curiosity and innovative problem solving.
• Champion Diversity — We seek different voices, faces, ideas, and backgrounds, believing human diversity drives innovation and creativity.
• Commit to Excellence — We provide quality products, services, and relationships to satisfy all stakeholders.

Strategic Direction: Michigan Virtual continues to engage in impactful initiatives to support Michigan’s K-12 system. The 2025-2030 Strategic Plan positions Michigan Virtual to help schools and educators navigate innovation to address persistent educational challenges.

• DRIVE EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: Urgency is increasing in our stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy new educational models that serve diverse learner needs.
• BROADEN STUDENT PATHWAYS: We will enrich students’ educational journey by expanding access to a diverse array of engaging core and high-interest elective offerings.
• POWER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: We will scale our professional learning services while providing positive experiences that people want to tell their friends and colleagues about.

To Apply

This search is being managed by Karen F. Andrews, SHRM-SCP, of The Andrews Group. To apply, candidates should submit their cover letter and resume to [email protected] .