We are seeking a Director, Corps Member Alumni to design, manage, and facilitate learning experiences for members of the Teach For America Baltimore community across the continuum from accepted corps members through alumnihood. This Director is charged with providing intensive support to 1st year corps members, ensuring 2nd year corps members have access to rigorous learning experiences that lead to a strong transition into alumnihood, and creating spaces for alumni to network, learn from each other, and organize into dynamic coalitions.
The Director, Corps Member Alumni’s charge will be to lead a diverse set of learning experiences grounded in Teach For America’s Theory of Leadership, creating a vision in partnership with the participants, building community culture, facilitating experiences, coaching, assessing progress, and enlisting outside experts, where applicable. Because of the diversity of the learning experiences, this role requires an entrepreneurial spirit and ability to coach, facilitate, and lead in diverse scenarios while being responsive to a variety of participants’ needs. This Director, Corps Member Alumni will provide Real Time Coaching support as a differentiated coaching experience that supplements the leadership coaching of Managers of Leadership Development.
- Create and lead learning communities / experiences for corps members and alumni aligned to Teach For America’s Theory of Leadership. (30%)
- Design and facilitate internal and external learning experiences that build our region’s understanding of how to best use various types of data to inform our work and build our thriving network.
- School Based Learning Community (25%)
- Establish partnership with at least 1 school interested in hosting a School Based Learning Community grounded in developing cultural competence and creating safe and welcoming learning environments for kids.
- Partner with school level stakeholders to set the vision for, facilitate, and lead school based learning community.
- Real Time Coaching / Intensive Coaching Support (25%)
- Provide intensive short-term coaching to corps members and alum who want to see drastic improvements in classroom culture.
- Leadership Development Team Responsibilities (10%)
- Prepare for and lead check ins with your manager around progress toward your goals and your ongoing development.
- Coordinate with members of the leadership development team to ensure clarity of vision and data process alignment across corps members and alumni experience milestones and outcomes.
- Partner with the Associate, Leadership Development Network Logistics.
- Partner with Teach For America’s national organization to leverage leadership development opportunities for alumni teachers facilitated by the national organization
- Regional Team responsibilities (10%)
- Fulfill foundational responsibilities that allow our region to do our work, make decisions, grow as professionals, and strengthen our team culture, including but not limited to attending regional meetings, operating with our Core Values and commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness, completing our performance management cycle, and upholding our data management, office operations and fiscal responsibilities
- Make a direct impact on the organizational mission of enlisting, developing and mobilizing leaders to strengthen the movement for educational equity by participating in corps member network facing events (including Leadership Summits and Summer Training), our alumni giving campaign, alumni survey, and at least one regional or national committee/working group, and other initiatives that impact our members and partners
- 5-7 years professional experience, including at least 3 years of successful classroom leadership
- Experience coaching adults and designing programming for adult leaders.
- Previous experience designing and/or facilitating resources relating to cultural competence, or diversity, equity, and inclusiveness preferred.
- Real Time Coaching certification highly preferred.
- Some weekend and evening work is required.
SKILLS
- Strong designer and facilitator
- Ability to set and evolve project vision and direction
- Exceptional ability to build and execute a project plan
- Exceptional strategic and critical thinking skills
- Ability to influence others and manage laterally to outcomes
- Operates with a high level of entrepreneurialism and optimism