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Managing Director, Collective Impact

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Dallas, TX, USA
Full-time

At Teach For America in Dallas-Fort Worth, we believe the individual and collective leadership of our 1000+ member alumni base is the critical lever to achieving educational equity in DFW. Nearly 100 of our alumni are working toward equity as school and school system leaders, over 300 as teachers, and many more as social entrepreneurs, elected officials, policy makers, community advocates, health professionals, and business people. At TFA DFW, we are joined by an incredible array of community members, and non-profit, for-profit, school, district and university partners whom we do this work alongside. The Alumni Program team exists to harness all of this opportunity to strengthen and deepen the impact of our alumni in DFW by supporting the individual and collective leadership, relationships, and learning of those in our network throughout their lifetimes.

The ultimate goal of your role as the Managing Director, Collective Impact is to ensure that our alumni are connected to TFA and to one another, knowledgeable about the biggest barriers to educational equity in the DFW landscape, and effective at working together to address them. You manage a sub-team of two direct reports and alongside them work on understanding collective leadership principles, analyzing the ever-changing state of our alumni base and landscape, and translating these inputs into opportunities to build community, learn collectively, and take strategic action.

We are looking for someone who has experience in managing programs, initiatives, and events that are driven by an understanding of the landscape in which they work and stakeholders they serve. You are obsessed with the power and potential of Teach For America alumni as individuals and as a network. You view your role in the fight for educational equity as serving, developing, and catalyzing adults who serve students and communities.

Areas of Responsibility: 

(25%) Serve as an Alumni Program Leadership Team member:

  • Contribute to the multi-year vision and annual functional charge of the alumni program team
  • Partner with the Managing Director, Talent & Leadership, in consultation with the Vice President, Alumni Program to:
    • Manage the day to day planning, operating, and executing of our the Alumni Program team
    • Monitor progress toward Alumni Program team goals and manage in all directions to generate results and adjust course as necessary
    • Tell the story of impact of the work of the Alumni Program team and its contributions to our overall team and regional success
    • Devise annual operational plan to manage self and team to execute strategies and tactics aligned to team vision and functional charge
    • Design and execute an annual marketing and communications plan to increase knowledge of and engagement in the vision and charge of the Alumni Program Team
    • Define and manage annual Alumni Program team budget
  • Coach, develop, and grow all members of the Alumni Program Team

(30%) Lead the Collective Impact sub-team:

  • Own the vision for your sub-team in consultation with the VP, Alumni Program and in alignment with the overall team vision and charge
  • Manage two direct reports toward ambitious outcomes in community building, collective learning and action
  • Create comprehensive long and short term strategies and tactics to fulfill the vision of your sub-team in consultation with the VP, Alumni Program and in collaboration with your direct reports
  • Devise and support direct reports to devise short term operational plans to manage self and others to execute strategies and tactics aligned to your vision
  • Design and execute short-term marketing and communications campaigns to increase knowledge of and engagement in your sub-team’s initiatives
  • Refine, leverage, and evolve a collective impact evaluation tool to measure effectiveness of team

(25%) Manage, sponsor, and steward TFA DFW alumni Collective Leadership Structures – TFA DFW Alumni Board & The Collective DFW Leadership Board

  • Empower the leadership of Board Chairs and Committee Heads to be effective leaders of their groups
  • Support boards to work in alignment with our alumni program team vision and annual functional charge
  • Lead the coordination between collective leadership structures to work collaboratively with one another and with all regional staff members
  • Facilitate access to budgetary and programmatic resources
  • Leverage collective leadership structures to support regional strategies
  • Identify and pursue opportunities to support the creation of new collective leadership structures, such as PRISM (TFA’s National LGBTQ+ Group), etc.

(15%) Operationalize the TFA DFW Program Strategy & Leadership Development model

  • Partner cross functionally with other team leaders to integrate our work for all corps members and alumni to strengthen the continuum of our participant journey  
  • Influence others to embody our vision for alumni
  • Ensure services, programming, events, and initiatives for alumni are aligned to our program strategy
  • Contribute to corps member learning, programming, etc.

(5%) Engage in other TFA-DFW work such as, but not limited to: regional events, incoming corps member confirmation, selection of new corps members, support other functional teams in achieving regional priorities, participating in all staff meetings and retreats

Skills/Experience: 
  • Previous experience with nonprofit program management or consulting preferred
  • Previous people management required
  • TFA alumni status preferred

Work Demands

  • Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for workshops and sessions

Skills

  • Synthesizes complex and abundant information in manageable work streams for a team
  • Builds cross-functional and cross-institutional relationships with a high level of professionalism
  • Enjoys problem solving even when the solution may be abstract and difficult to measure
  • Feels comfortable in grey areas, and has the confidence to try new and pilot new initiatives
  • Communicates complex ideas clearly and succinctly, verbal and written
  • Can build relationships with people across lines of difference
  • Creative approach to systems design; can move quickly from ambiguity to systematic effort
  • Exceptional organizational skills, leveraging systems strategically to accurately track many multi-faceted work streams
  • Results-oriented – effectively balances driving strategically at clear, ambitious goals with the iterative nature of research and strategy development and relationship-centered work

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: 
May 4 2019
Active Until: 
Jun 4 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit