Teach For America Charlotte-Piedmont Triad seeks a Manager of Teacher Leadership Development (MTLD) for our Piedmont Triad site who will lead our program strategy in the Triad community toward meeting the ambitious goals set for student achievement and corps member stewardship and retention. As the MTLD, you will manage a cohort of first-year corps members and are responsible for the effectiveness, retention, and stewardship of our corps members. You will work closely with the Manager of Onboarding and Program support based in Charlotte to support the onboarding and certification of incoming corps members placed in the Piedmont Triad. You will report directly to the Managing Director, Piedmont Triad.
Areas of Responsibility:
The Manager, Teacher Leadership Development (Charlotte-Piedmont Triad) will:
Build Corps Member Leadership (20%)
- Partner with the Managing Director, Piedmont Triad to shape and effectively execute the strategy for improving teacher effectiveness in order to achieve ambitious student achievement goals
- Serve as a member of the regional program team, making decisions about the vision and strategy for our teacher support and development
- Build strong relationships with school leaders, district leaders, and university partners to facilitate effective school placements, establish lasting partnerships and expand and strengthen corps member impact beyond the classroom
Coach and Empower Corps Members (50%)
- Manage a cohort of 20-25 first-year corps members to achieve ambitious outcomes in their classrooms
- Build relationships with corps members and invest them in their goals and their potential impact
- Coach and develop corps members to establish the foundations of their classrooms: ambitious vision and goals, purposeful long-term plans and unit plans, and rigorous assessments
- Observe corps members in their classrooms to gather data on student learning and teacher proficiency
- Analyze student achievement data and problem-solve with corps members to prioritize the teacher actions that most impact student performance
- Partner with the MD, Piedmont Triad to design and execute individual, group, and corps-wide learning experiences to ensure that corps members acquire critical knowledge, skills, and mindsets to increase their proficiency
- Support corps members to gain the insight and commitment to serve as effective stewards of the movement beyond their corps experience
Corps Member Onboarding, Communication & Operations (20%)
- Partner with the regional Manager, Onboarding and Program Support and laterally manage Piedmont Triad members to execute the regional matriculation campaign to ensure that the size and diversity of our corps meets the needs of the Piedmont Triad community
- Identify and implement strategies to retain corps members throughout the onboarding process, including managing logistics for classroom observations, school tours, regional visits, engagements with current members, hiring fairs, etc.
- Serve as the main point of contact for incoming corps members based in the Piedmont Triad and ensure they have the information they need to navigate their transition to the corps
- Manage and track corps member completion of requirements to be placed, hired, and licensed in the school district, including test registration, paperwork, and interview materials
- Create and manage a yearly communication scope and sequence for Piedmont Triad corps members, including curating and sending a weekly newsletter
- Manage, track, and communicate corps member professional development credit status
- Provide logistics and operational support for programmatic activities as necessary
Lead Across the Movement (10%)
- Participate in shared regional commitments such as biweekly staff meetings, quarterly staff retreats, communicating regularly with incoming corps members, and interviewing applicants to Teach For America
- Meet compliance expectations for timesheet, expense report, and performance management documentation and submission
- Support and participate in regional events, requiring occasional evening and weekend work
- Exhibit a desire to learn and develop your cultural competence and understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness
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 required; four or more years preferred
- Experience coaching or supporting teachers preferred
- Extensive knowledge of effective teaching practices
Skills
- Managing or influencing others to achieve a vision that is aligned to goals and priorities
- Operating with urgency and sense of possibility to achieve ambitious, measurable results
- Analyzing data to draw accurate conclusions and to inform team management approach
- Making informed, timely decisions and using sound judgment to prioritize actions
- Tracking tasks, assessing progress, and following through on the execution of plans
- Developing and cultivating relationships and networks in order to achieve results
- Inspiring committed and positive action toward individual and organizational goals
- Exemplifying Teach For America’s core values
Work Demands
- Ability to work an average of 50 hours per week, majority during business hours
- Occasional evening and weekend work required
- Frequent independent travel to multiple school sites throughout the day that may be significant distances from one another
- Frequent travel to the regional office in Charlotte for regional team engagements (2-3 times per month)
- Occasional travel to in-person meetings in various US cities (2-3 times per year)
Approach to Work
- A learner and iterator. You are hungry to learn and regularly seek out opportunities for feedback and growth. You see feedback as a path to strengthening your work, actively seek it out, and respond positively to it. You are open and collaborative and love working in a team environment to strengthen your practice. You view mistakes as a way to learn and are therefore eager to dissect them with peers to find a path for improvement.
- Passionate about coaching. You love your corps members, see their full potential (even when they themselves doubt it) and see your job as doing whatever it takes to help them achieve their visions. You are able to have high-stakes feedback conversations that drive towards outcomes, strengthen relationships and broaden perspectives. You define your success by how successful your corps members feel they are and actually are.
- A strong culture builder. You have experience creating a thriving, inclusive, connected culture amongst a group and believe it is mission critical to achieving short- and long-term success. You are passionate about creating a culture among adult learners where they are mutually accountable to one another and lead their learning amongst peers. You model our core values and regional values in all your interactions.
- Obsessive about outcomes. You have an incredibly strong past record of results of achieving ambitious goals, specifically in direct and lateral coaching engagements, despite obstacles and have experience doing so in complex situations with diverse teams. Your decisions are data-driven. You also have experience in change management and are motivated to achieve extraordinary performance and cultural outcomes in the midst of change.
- Self-driven and highly mature. You demonstrate an uncommon level of personal responsibility for achieving results, define broadly what is within your control, persevere in the face of challenges and you’re exceptionally optimistic about what is possible. You take initiative to do what it takes to achieve success, including sharing your successes and failures openly and fully with your team.
- A conscious leader. You are always oriented towards social justice and equity. You have a pattern of modeling a set of values for others through self-reflection, curiosity and exploration, and an ability to connect and empathize with people. You have a history of operating in the spirit of our commitment to diversity and a strong understanding of the dynamics of race and class in America. You lead, and believe others must lead, through a culturally responsive lens and in a way that empowers members across our network.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 17 2019
Active Until:
Feb 17 2019
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit