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Manager, Professional Development & Corps Experience

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Los Angeles, California, United States
Full-time

The Manager, Professional Development & Corps Experience is the CEO of inclusive and anti-racist programming strategies for the California Capital Valley Program team. The Program Team collectively supports the diverse leaders that work with students in our region. You will play a pivotal role in designing experiences and creating strategies that will lead to a strong orientation of culturally responsive education, leadership development, and anti-oppression and liberatory consciousness within the CCV region. You are committed to self-reflection, have systems of organization, have strong coaching skills, have passion and knowledge in adult learning, have vast experiences and training in DEI work, and believe deeply in the power of designing experiences that are disruptive. You believe that coaches should be committing 75% of their time and attention to direct CM coaching and you will be relentless in your support of that end. You will report to the Managing Director of Alumni Affairs and Program and be situated alongside three Managers of Teacher Leadership and Development and one Manager of Program Equity and Operations.

Areas of Responsibility: 

Design (40%)

  • Create dynamic and responsive learning experiences and sessions that are aligned with the programming vision and regional direction for pre-corps, corps experience, and alumnihood.
  • Support the MD, Alumni Affairs & Program in creating scope and sequence and learning experiences for programming team (meetings, retreats, etc.).
  • Create communication strategies that are effective and responsive and rooted in cultural competence.
  • Create engaging make-up opportunities that align with scope and sequence for CMs who are unable to attend professional development days.
  • Engage community partners in pushing to expand new perspectives around how our region shares and contributes to the socioeconomic and socio-emotional landscape. i.e. creating community engagement and volunteering opportunities as well strategic thinking around where and how corps members attend professional developments.
  • Design pre-corps scope and sequence that will include staff calls and 1:1 coaching support.

Strategy Support & Management (35%)

  • Analyze data and share trends with MD, Alumni Affairs & Program as well as create strategies to help MTLDs deepen their work with corps members in data-driven ways.
  • Design systems that support our Managers of Teacher Leadership and Development in being able to coach 75% of their role.
  • Manage MTLDs to help them implement high-impact coaching strategies. Guide coaching through experiences to hold space for staff member feedback and drive towards an aligned path to living out the regional and national missions.
  • Manage program tracker to ensure data is valid, reliable, and being entered regularly.
  • Manage systems alongside the MD, Alumni Affairs & Program to ensure we are consistently aligned with the regional high levels of learning in all coaching and CM support.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (10%)

  • Co-own DEI work of the program team for continuous development of context through multiple layers, starting with students and the communities we serve and continuing through regional partnerships.
  • Manage staff facing components that will require driving a rigorous push to decenter dominant culture(s) and create and sustain shared goals and visions as a standard for staff functions.
  • Drive the fluidity of DEI practices in collaboration with partner regions to ensure an open-ended perspective around evolving language and context through which to better drive our regional mission.
  • Co-create DEI scope and sequences for CMs and Program Team alongside MD, Alumni Affairs & Program.

Special projects and additional duties as determined by the Managing Director of Alumni Affairs and Program. (15%)

Educational Background: 
Bachelor's degree required
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum of two years of experience achieving ambitious outcomes as a classroom teacher in a low-income community  
  • Experience coaching adults
  • Have a deep commitment to Teach For America's mission and core values

Skills

  • When faced with obstacles, you deepen resolve, adapt, and persist with optimism.
  • You demonstrate resilience in the face of challenges, and you are committed to coaching corps members to do the same.
  • You have the ability to engage in difficult conversations.
  • You know how to zero in on the main issues and prioritize accordingly with strong solutions.
  • You constantly reflect and work to grow and improve.

Education

  • Occasional weekends and evenings
  • Independent travel to multiple school sites throughout the day that may be significant distances from one another
  • Some regions require a valid driver’s license or the ability to obtain one before the first day of employment with no major driving violations in the last three years (varies by region)
  • Potentially travel to at least two Teach For America conferences each year
  • Regular travel to Avenal, Delano and Lost Hills

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Oct 5 2018
Active Until: 
Nov 5 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit