As the Manager, Network Development in Indianapolis, you will work with the Network Impact team to foster a thriving network of individuals who are committed to engaging locally, connecting with one another, and fueling leadership to make change together.
Our collective network includes more than 650 Teach For America members (current corps members and alumni) living in the Greater Indianapolis region. You will contribute to and advance our work by building authentic relationships with alumni and corps members with a specific focus on the transition between the corps and alumnihood. You will support corps members and new alumni as they develop their personal theory of change and translate this into impact within the city, both professionally and civically. You will collaborate with our corps member development team to support second-year corps members, develop and launch a small-scale innovation investment strategy to amplify member projects, and roll out a network technology strategy region-wide.
The Manager, Network Development should be:
- Interpersonally Engaging: You quickly build relationships with diverse stakeholders. You can comfortably speak to, influence and build credibility with a wide-ranging group of members. You take immense ownership and assume significant personal responsibility for achieving results. You are self-driven and constantly seek to increase your locus of control and influence to drive strong outcomes. You possess a persistent optimism and “whatever it takes” mentality to make change happen, particularly in the face of challenges.
- Innovative Spirit: You thrive in charting a new course in pursuit of educational equity and excellence. You can imagine a different reality for the future and align vision and strategy to reach ambitious outcomes to lead to this future state. You inspire others to take innovative, creative steps to developing a new future for Indiana students. You take calculated risks and encourage others to do the same, focusing on testing and learning. You leverage data, strong data analysis, and rigorous decision-making to prioritize and drive toward outcomes. You believe in our regional vision, mission, goals, and core values and strive to embody them in every endeavor.
- Obsessive about collective leadership: You embrace the idea that leadership can be shared, and that stewarding groups, structures, and processes that build capacity in others is essential. You catalyze collective leadership and see the growing TFA Indy community as a powerful network for change, especially when we act collectively to make change.
- A conscious leader: You are always oriented towards justice and equity, particularly in education. You lead, and believe others must lead, through a culturally responsive lens and in a way that empowers students and communities to lead lives of their choosing. You constantly reflect, learn, and improve and model this for others.
Innovation and investment strategy development and rollout (25%)
- Develop strategy, process and systems to support a new regional initiative designed to make small-scale investments in member projects aligned with our regional strategy, specifically our near-term community objectives
- Identify regional investment opportunities
- Work with our internal regional team to implement a process for members to apply for funding and manage investment decisions
- Support members through innovation coaching, mentorship and accountability
- Track outcomes from pilot year(s) to foster institutional and community learning and rapidly and responsibly scale successes as part of the regional organizational strategy
Manage member transition from corps member to alumni (40%)
- Support the region’s most recent alumni as they develop personal theories of change, develop their careers, and engage in the community
- Collaborate with colleagues across the regional team to implement strategies for place-based attachment formation to Indiana
- Collaborate with colleagues across the regional team to contribute to second year corps member theory of change development and co-lead the retention of second year corps members in Indianapolis
Technology strategy development and rollout (15%)
- Create and implement a plan to enroll Indianapolis alumni on our national technology platform, TFA Connect BETA
- Manage engagement with technology to ensure that our team is aligned regionally and our national presence is competitive
Fulfill our Mission through Organizational and Regional Priorities (20%)
- Participate in our region’s corps member selection, matriculation, induction, and ongoing engagement initiatives
- Attend regional meetings and retreats held throughout the year, bi-weekly staff meetings, and occasional conferences and trainings
- Teach For America alum or former staff member preferred
- Experience within the Indianapolis education landscape preferred
- Record of achieving ambitious results and possessing a strong results orientation
- Demonstrated conviction to the constituents Teach For America serves and/or Indianapolis region
- Experience with Salesforce a plus
- Organizing, planning, and executing. Superb organization, detail orientation, and project management skills
- Making decisions and demonstrating judgment. Operates with urgency and sense of possibility
- Building relationships and networks. Ability to build and leverage deep relationships with all types of people in different contexts and across lines of sameness and difference
- Influencing others to achieve outcomes. Ability to build relationships toward successful outcomes
- Communicating effectively. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and the ability to craft high quality written communications and professionally respond to alumni, internal, and external partners with a high level of respect and humility
- Defining the opportunity/problem, and conducting analysis
- Synthesizing, integrating and developing strategies
Work Demands:
- Ability to work early mornings, evenings, and weekends, if needed
- Travel 1-2 times per year to out-of-state conferences