TEAM:
Corps Member and Alumni Leadership Development
ROLE TITLE:
Managing Director, Leadership Development (MD, LD)
REPORTS TO:
Fallon Daniels, SMD, Leadership Development and Brittany Henderson, SMD, Educational Impact
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
11:59pm ET on Wednesday, October 9, 2024.
LOCATION:
Must be located in the Piedmont-Triad or Charlotte, NC
THE ROLE:
As MD, Leadership Development, you will be the primary success partner for ensuring that a cohort of CMs are positioned to access what they need in order to impact our 10 year goal, and enter alumnihood with a clear vision for how they can continue to contribute to One Day from the matriculation phase through their two year commitment. You will lead the development of an individualized and customized plan of support for each corps member, drawing on their strengths, interests, and needs to propel them towards exceptional results with their students in their classrooms. In partnership with your Hub, Regional Point(s) of Contact, broader regional team(s), and fellow MD,LDs you will work to steward progress towards the 2030 goal in-region by ensuring that each participant can navigate through their ecosystem of support receiving a standardized, customized, and personalized experience.
From the beginning you will support corps members through confirmation and matriculation working closely with your region and your region’s MD, Matriculation Generalist as they set the direction and manage the overall execution of matriculation and onboarding. Through pre-service you will holistically support the corps members and cohort experience by leading community gatherings, facilitating coaching spaces, and working alongside your hub, regional team(s), and national partners to design the practicum experience. During their corps experience you will work with each corps member to evaluate inputs to assess root causes, connect them to specific people and resources to address needed learning and growth, support them in making sense of both their ecosystem of support and their broader experience, and overall serve as an executive and leadership coach to each of them.
THE PERSON
In this role you will:
Overall
- Manage the relationship and retention of CMs from Matriculation to Alumnihood
- Deeply know each participant's experience, goals and potential barriers to completion
- Set the vision and direction for a portfolio by serving as primary relationship holder, sense-making partner, connector, and leadership coach through each phase of their journey.
- Cultivate and maintain strong school partnerships
- Maintain a deep understanding of all supports available to CMs in their regions, their placement community, CM wellness resources, external instructional supports, and their alignment to the CM Roadmap for Development.
- Connect CMs to appropriate resources, based on individual CM needs and development plans.
- Be able to apply knowledge of participant policies and procedures to navigate CM concerns and de-escalate risk. This includes drafting, managing and executing improvement plans, seeking consultation from internal partners when barriers or incidents arise with participants relative to their experience, impact, and/or retention.
- Participate in select regional staff events (retreats, staff meetings, regional corps member events, etc).
Additional Details:
Matriculation
- Help drive your region’s Matriculation vision strategy by supporting matriculants to understand the regional context, feel connected to the region and organization, and successfully matriculate.
- Partner with your region(s) to execute a placement strategy that accelerates us toward the 10 year goal; seek and secure placement opportunities aligned to that strategy, and do what is needed to ensure ICMs are set up for success.
- In conjunction with MD, Matriculation Generalist, analyze inputs to identify key trends and adjust strategies between each confirmation window to ensure we’re matriculating the maximum number of corps members to your region(s), in alignment with the placement strategy.
Pre-Service
- In conjunction with the Regional Point(s) of Contact, undergo a rigorous process to determine a location for pre-service practicum that is best aligned with the regional strategy.
- Support the Leadership Development-Operations team in planning and execution of in-person practicum.
- Facilitate regional community building, support CMs to make sense of their experience and the ecosystem of supports around them, and provide ongoing support to CMs in determining strengths, areas for improvement, and root causes for identified issues to strategically connect CMs with the most relevant supports.
In-Service
- Partner with each corps member to develop an individualized coaching and support plan involving determining strengths, areas for improvement, and root causes for identified issues to strategically connect CMs with most relevant supports.
- Evaluate CM teaching practice with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) through in-person or virtual classroom observations.
- Support CM to make meaning of their CLASS scores in connection to prioritized actions to take to improve their practice.
- Support CMs in the implementation and sense making of Cultivate and/or other student surveys.
- Maintain school-based relationships to steward partnership, elevate needs, and support retention efforts.
- Analyze trends in learning and support needs across CMs experiences in order to communicate with those building group learning experiences, and play a role in designing and implementing the Equity Driven Teaching & Learning Summits.
- Partner with our external instructional coaches, local principals and local instructional supports to create individualized plans for CMs.
AmeriCorps:
- As needed and directed by the Manager, Leadership Development-Operations, follow-up with incoming CMs and current CMs to complete AmeriCorps action items.
- Monitor CMs enrolled in AmeriCorps on AmeriCorps requirements; as needed, inform principals of requirements.
- Complete AmeriCorps evaluations at the middle and end of the program year; as needed, and help secure principal forms. Support documentation collection processes for status changes.
Other:
- Serve as an “all hands on deck” team member willing to support your program team in various ways as needs and opportunities arise including selection.
- Engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion conversations for ongoing personal reflection and learning.
- Complete general administrative responsibilities accurately and on time.
THE MUST HAVES
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years work experience, including at least 2 years classroom teaching experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Willing to work flexible hours with some nights and weekends
- Training: complete CLASS certification prior to the first CLASS observation (training provided by TFA), enroll in and successfully complete an Executive Coaching Program (at TFAs expense).
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years experience, with specific experience in leadership coaching and/or leading adults
- Experience coaching and advising capable and competent leaders through complex challenges towards impact.
- A track record of getting results while managing multiple large-scale projects simultaneously
- Experience as an Assistant or School Principal
Skills & Orientations:
- Deep commitment to being an anti-racist leader through grounding in our commitment to diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion
- Deep investment in Teach For America’s core values and mission
- Belief that there is a place for both standard and customized approaches to supporting CMs across our enterprise
- Love of thinking across the enterprise and considering multiple levers and ways of operating that benefit multiple regions, not just one.
- High skill and orientation towards managing up.
- Have energy for/get joy from supporting CMs in their ability to determine and assess what they need to succeed.
- Desire to be on the hook for ensuring each candidate has the strongest possible offer.
- Strength in critical problem solving such that your manager is a thought partner, not a problem solver.
- High willingness to leave many components of past programming behind and adopt something new.
- Exceptional relationship builder with CMs and school leaders and external partners.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong sense of self-awareness and understanding of strengths and areas for development.
- Skilled in creating and upholding accountability practices to ensure enterprise success.
- Skilled in conducting needs assessments, analyzing complex landscapes, and deriving a set of strategic levers to support prioritized needs.
- Demonstrated ability to work with a significant level of autonomy, and make strategic decisions in varying and nuanced situations.
- Develop and cultivate effective relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Listen, learn, and earn credibility with all constituencies, then decisively move forward to implement agreed-upon solutions.
- Manage multiple priorities, prioritize effectively, and alternate fluidly between thinking about the big picture and executing on specific strategies.
THE TEAM
As a Managing Director, Leadership Development, you will be a member of both the Teach For America Program team and of the region(s) you support. The Program Team is responsible for defining the type of systems-change leadership required to reach “One Day” and how to best develop that leadership through the act of teaching.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary range for this role is set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Tier A: $93,300-120,300