As the Managing Director of Network Impact in Indianapolis, you will lead our regional Network Impact team. You are an exceptional leader who will foster and develop the collective leadership and network of over 650 members living in the Greater Indianapolis region. As a senior leader on the regional team, you will contribute to and advance our work by building authentic relationships with Teach For America alumni in all stages of career throughout our city; creating mechanisms to cultivate, develop and foster individual and collective leadership towards educational equity and excellence; and strategically partner with the Program Continuum team to ensure alignment across the member experience towards collective leadership. You will serve as a culture leader on our staff; an effective coach and direct manager to the Manager of Network Impact; and a collaborative, strategic, and thoughtful member of the Indianapolis Leadership Team. As a member of the Leadership Team, you will model professionalism, integrity, and our organizational core values at all times.
The Network Impact team will sit as one prong of the larger Program Continuum Team within our regional Indianapolis Team. The Network Impact team’s charge is to provide structures, resources, and leadership development that support members to connect, deepen their collective commitment to understanding the root causes of and dismantling educational inequity, and initiate towards collective impact. Through the work of this function, our members will become a powerful network fueling learning and innovation in Indianapolis education. You will develop the vision and strategy of the Network Impact team alongside your manager, the Chief Program Officer, and will invest heavily in relationship building, cross-team collaboration, and strategic planning towards ambitious Network Impact goals in alignment with our regional 2023 Plan.
Set, own, and execute vision and strategy for Network Impact function (40%)
- Create and manage Network Impact strategies in alignment with regional priorities and goals, specifically member culture, involvement, stewardship, and retention metrics
- Test and develop strategies to bring forth growing collective leadership within the TFA-Indy community
- Analyze and synthesize member survey data on an ongoing basis to inform strategy
- Research organizations and other Teach For America regions with strong network culture to pilot local initiatives that would foster a thriving network within our region
- Manage and foster strong relationships with regional members through one-on-one and group meetings and programming
- Orient new alumni to our region to ensure they feel welcomed and part of the network
- Liaise with alumni-run organizations, such as our Alumni Board, Collective, and PRISM
- Manage systems to easily manage alumni data utilizing data management platform, Salesforce
- Collaborate and partner with Program Continuum teams to ensure alignment on member experience
Be a strong manager, coach, and developer of staff (30%)
- Develop a strong, outcomes- and core values-focused performance culture within the Network Impact team; coach and develop Manager of Network Impact to build their own expertise as a systems-change leader and drive increasingly strong outcomes
- Ensure that Manager of Network Impact has full clarity on goals and outcomes they are driving toward in their work in alignment with TFA-Indy strategy; to this end, ensure that team members have robust strategies to deliver short- and long-term results, and that they execute strategies efficiently and effectively
- Coach and develop Manager of Network Impact to reach their goals/outcomes and continually increase their effectiveness and learning over time as outcomes-focused, corps values-driven leaders
- Coach and manage Manager of Network Impact to achieve ambitious team goals through leadership development programming, managing campaigns, and planning events
Serve as member of the Leadership Team and cultural leader within region (20%)
- Inform the strategic direction of TFA-Indy as one of the senior-most leaders of the region and member of Leadership Team
- Establish strong partnerships with the community grounded in a shared vision of excellent education for all and to optimally advance our mission and strategy
- Grow yourself as a leader by holding a clear, personal vision for impact and how it relates to your goals
- Have deep knowledge of your identity and how race, class, and privilege influence your values, mindsets and behaviors and ability to work alongside lines of sameness and difference
- Serve as a cultural leader of the Network Impact function as well as the broader regional team through visible and invisible ways of stewarding a strong core values-based culture
- Sustain yourself in this work and model this for our team, corps, and alumni
Fulfill our Mission through Organizational and Regional Priorities (10%)
- 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 alumnus/a or former staff member preferred
- Record of achieving ambitious results and possessing a strong results-orientation
- An experienced and tested manager of individuals and have a track record of getting exceptional results with and through others.
- Demonstrated conviction to the constituents Teach For America serves and/or Indianapolis region
- Experience with Salesforce a plus
Work Demands
- Ability to work early mornings, evenings, and weekends, if needed
- Travel 1-2 times per year to out-of-state conferences
Skills
- Setting Vision and Direction
- Organizing, Planning, and Executing. Superb organization, detail-orientation, and project management skills.
- Making Decisions and Demonstrating Judgment. Operates with urgency and sense of possibility
- Assembling Effective Teams; Managing Team Execution; Influencing & Motivating Teams
- 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 communications 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; Conducting Analysis
- Synthesizing, Integrating and Developing Strategies