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The National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education aims to support community-led efforts that foster students' academic and life success.
Join our mission today. Explore our current opportunities below and submit your proposal by the listed deadline to be considered.
Director of Finance and Administration
Location: Remote, with Albuquerque, Dallas, or Washington DC preferred
This full time role requires a seasoned, strategic, and values-driven leader to serve as a core member of the executive leadership team. Reporting to the Executive Director, this role provides organizational leadership across finance, grants management, legal compliance, human resources oversight, and records governance, ensuring strong systems, accountability, and long-term sustainability in support of NFEAIE’s mission.
Ideal candidates will have a background in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field with a proven understanding of Finance principles, practices, and operational management.
Curriculum Development Specialist [PROJECT CONTRACTOR]
Location: Remote
This contractor will collaborate with grantee educators and administrators to develop or strengthen standards, scope and sequence documents, and coherent curriculum frameworks aligned with immersion goals across diverse Tribal language contexts.
The role includes providing technical assistance, facilitating curriculum planning processes, refining existing materials, and developing adaptable tools to support sustainability and replication. Experience in Indigenous education or language revitalization is strongly preferred.
Educational Material Design Specialist [PROJECT CONTRACTOR]
Location: Remote
This contractor will collaborate with educators and community partners to design culturally grounded, classroom-ready materials such as worksheets, storybooks, posters, and visual aids that strengthen language instruction.
The role includes providing training and technical assistance to teachers, developing adaptable templates for broader school use, and ensuring materials align with immersion and language revitalization goals. Experience in educational or graphic design is required, with preference given to candidates who have worked in Indigenous education contexts and are proficient in Canva.
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The National Fund seeks to implement an evaluation strategy to assess the effectiveness of the Language Immersion Grant program as an intervention. A successful evaluation strategy will balance rigorous assessment with the already numerous demands on grantees’ time. Outcomes of the evaluation will be used to make strategic shifts in program design, communicate investment outcomes to federal and non-federal partners, and provide useful data to grantee schools.
Successful proposals will demonstrate a track record of successful programmatic evaluation. Special consideration will be given to proposals demonstrating a record of evaluation projects in collaboration with tribal communities and/or with tribal languages.
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The National Fund seeks to research and develop an analysis of the current state of tribal language programs in Bureau-operated and tribally-controlled BIE schools with a particular focus on language program capacities, design, target languages, and program longevity. We anticipate this work to be completed through interviews, surveys, and independent research.
Request for Proposal
Submissions due by April 1, 2026
Please check back again soon as we continue to grow. If you are interested in supporting our work, feel free to email us directly at info@nfeaie.org.