We seek a Managing Director of Corps Member Development to lead the development, engagement, and impact of our members during their two year corps commitment. In this role, you will manage and coach the corps member development team in pursuit of ambitious student and corps member outcomes. You will also work to ensure the success of our full regional team by building relationships and partnerships with a diverse group of alumni, school partners, and community leaders across Indianapolis.
A successful candidate deeply believes in the potential of our new teachers to lead students to realize their full potential. You have led students to achieve academic and personal success in the classroom, either directly in your own classroom or through others that you have managed. You are passionate about the perspective and power that highly effective educators bring to the movement to transform policies, practices and systems in pursuit of equity. You enjoy management and are excited to achieve results with your team. You will report directly to the Chief Program Officer, serve as a member of the Leadership Team, and manage eight direct reports. In addition, you will manage and build external partnerships aligned to our corps member development strategy.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Passionate about Indianapolis and educational equity. You are passionate about what is possible and necessary in Indianapolis for us to realize our vision for all Indy’s children to lead lives of their choosing and contribute to a more vibrant and just city. You are determined to leverage and build upon our assets to ensure we realize educational equity in partnership with the hundreds of alumni and even more community members working in and around our schools. You are incredibly optimistic about what we can achieve together. If you are considering a move to our community, you are deeply curious and eager to learn our history, current innovations, and greatest opportunities while investing in building relationships.
- A systems-change thinker and leader. You engage in deep learning and reflection on the changes in policy or practice needed to ensure all students are able to realize their full potential. You are able to translate this thinking into action in your own work and in the work of others.
- Believe that teaching is an act of leadership with an enduring impact. You are a champion of teachers. You understand the profound immediate impact teachers have in their classrooms daily and you believe this impact endures over time through the leadership of students. You are highly effective in building technical skill in new educators, situating this skill building within a rigorous, supportive culture focused on systems learning.
- A visionary and a strategist. You can see beyond what currently exists and chart out potential paths forward towards a suite of ambitious and interdependent goals. When you face a challenge, you break it down into smaller pieces and effectively prioritize action for yourself and others.
- Focused on outcomes. Your decisions are data-driven, and you stay laser-focused on goals regardless of day-to-day chaos or distractions. You are motivated to achieve performance and cultural outcomes in the midst of change, knowing what that will require of you as a leader and manager.
- Self-driven and a talented manager of workflow and people. You have superior organizational skills, attention to detail, integrity, and great follow-through on all facets of your work. You enjoy developing effective ways to streamline and create processes and protocols for maximum efficiency both across teams and through layers. At the same time, you are flexible and differentiate your approach to influence others. You have a record of leading teams to exceptional results.
- A talented team and culture leader. You model our core values and are known as a culture builder and leader. In every action and interaction, you are an example to others and you take that role seriously and with pride. You cultivate strong and lasting relationships with diverse stakeholders (internal and external) and people grow because of your interactions, coaching and mentorship.
- A conscious leader. You are always oriented towards education justice, equity, and inclusivity. You lead, and believe others must lead, through a culturally responsive lens and in a way that empowers others. You constantly reflect, learn, and improve.
THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead our efforts to develop effective early educators and life-long systems change leaders (20%)
- Create and execute a vision focused on maximizing our impact on students’ immediate success and long-term life opportunities in life through strong leadership development
- Develop and execute on a theory of corps member development within our Indianapolis Program Model and organizational Theory of Leadership
- Inspire your team of coaches to internalize the possibility of achieving ambitious goals and realize their potential to develop leaders who individually and collectively realize our vision
- Work closely with the regional team to shape and enact the Corps Member Development strategy
- Assess and optimize relationships with corps members, including regularly learning how we can best support them and strategically evolve our approach
- Develop and evolve relationships in the landscape grounded in a shared vision of excellent education for all and to optimally advance our mission and strategy
- Leverage the latest research and innovations in leadership development nationally at TFA and broadly in the field to evolve strategies
Manage and develop a successful corps member development team (40%)
- Foster an inspiring, inclusive and impact oriented team culture
- Differentiate your approach for team members in different roles while also synthesizing and integrating multiple perspectives into team decision making
- Manage and develop corps member development team members to create and refine a portfolio of coherent, aligned, and impactful aligned to a suite of goals and responsive to our progress towards those goals over time
- Cultivate strong classroom observation and coaching skills in your team that result in accelerated teacher efficacy and student outcomes
- Build knowledge and skill of best practices in adult learning and team management across the team
- Model adaptive, values-based leadership development to complement and support technical skill building
- Develop team structures to assess and analyze progress to goal
- Routinely use data to refine our approach; communicate results and action steps internally and externally
Partner with Key Stakeholders (10%)
- Work with TFA-National colleagues to ensure validity of our internal metrics, and collaborate with local stakeholders to ensure alignment with student outcomes and track student progress
- Ensure the successful certification of our corps members and steward certification partnerships
- Collaborate with the program continuum team to maximize leadership development opportunities across the Teach For America Indianapolis network
- Partner with the program continuum team to understand our school placement partners and use these learnings to inform corps member support
Serve as a developing enterprise leader and member of the Leadership Team (20%)
- Inform the strategic direction of TFA-Indy as one of the senior-most leaders of the region and member of Leadership Team
- Establish strong partnerships with the community grounded in a shared vision of excellent education for all and to optimally advance our mission and strategy
- Grow yourself as a leader by holding a clear, personal vision for impact and how it relates to your goals
- Have deep knowledge of your identity and how race, class, and privilege influence your values, mindsets and behaviors and ability to work alongside lines of sameness and difference
- Sustain yourself in this work and model this for our team, corps, and alumni
Fulfill our Mission through Organizational and Regional Priorities (10%)
- Participate in our region’s corps member selection, matriculation, induction, and ongoing engagement initiatives
- Attend regional meetings and retreats held throughout the year, biweekly staff meetings, and occasional conferences and trainings
GOAL AREAS
- Student learning
- Corps Member retention, effectiveness, leadership practices and culture
- Corps Member Development team learning and engagement
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience leading large, complex educational organizations
Skills/Experience:
- 8+ years professional work experience demonstrating progressively increasing responsibility, with demonstrated success
- Demonstrated track record of success with students and/or teachers in a classroom or school setting
- Experience working directly with low income communities
- Prior experience as a corps member, teacher or school leader preferred but not required
- Experience working in the Indianapolis education landscape or a similarly / more complex education landscape preferred, but not required
Work Demands
- Ability to work evenings and weekends when necessary
- Minimal Travel required – approx. 2-6 times per year
Skills
- Setting Vision and Direction
- Making Decisions and Demonstrating Judgment
- Synthesizing, Integrating and Developing Strategies
- Managing Team Execution
- Organizing, Planning and Executing
- Building Relationships and Networks; Influencing Others to Achieve Outcomes
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 4 2019
Active Until:
Feb 4 2019
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit