Mathew Moura, Senior Vice President of Strategy, leads the strategic growth and impact of programs and services, and the development and evaluation teams. In this role, he is responsible for cultivating and developing key partnerships, and driving and setting the vision for program service’s long-term growth, sustainability, and scale, and fundraising and evaluation.
Prior to joining Teaching Matters, Mathew served as the Senior Director of Strategy and Program Development for Jumpstart, a national non-profit seeking to ensure all children have access to high quality education. He oversaw a portfolio of over 25 programs across the country, led program design and launch in new areas, and led the community impact initiatives of the agency. His expertise included donor stewardship, program design and implementation, as well as stewardship of city, local, state, and national government officials and agencies to ensure quality and sustainable programming throughout the country.
Mathew entered education through Teach for America in Chicago as a 2008 Corps Member and served as a Corps Member Advisor, Training Specialist, Instructional Leader, and School Director. During these roles, he worked in coaching, writing, designing and executing trainings to all new teachers on diversity and inclusiveness, phonological awareness, reading, language, management, investment, and math teaching. He came to New York City as a program director for SCO Family of Services. He led a community-based program in Brownsville, Brooklyn, mentoring and supervising teachers and paraprofessionals to achieve strong academic gains. While with SCO, Mathew acted as a founding master teacher at FirstStepNYC, a state-of-the-art early education center providing high quality early education services and parenting support to pregnant women and families with children ages six weeks to five years old, also in Brownsville.
Mathew earned his Masters of Science in Early Childhood Education from Erikson Institute.