We are looking for an experienced educator who is deeply motivated by working in Los Angeles and has experience in this community. You have 3+ years of teaching experience with a track record of achieving ambitious results with students, as well as experience coaching and leading other adults. Working with novice teachers brings you joy, and the prospect of being there for first-year and second-year teachers during this critical stage energizes you.
The ideal candidate will be passionate for the job, with the ability to build relationships with our corps members and the many constituents that impact a corps member’s experience. You thrive in situations where you are able to build deep relationships in a short period of time and then leverage these relationships to do hard yet meaningful work. When things get hard and a corps member doubts their own leadership or impact, you will remain asset-based in your coaching and leverage your unshakable belief in your teachers to uplift them and motivate them as leaders in their classroom.
TFA-LA’s support model is grounded in a community-based approach. Managers work together alongside a Director to support schools in one of four community groups. These community groups are charged with supporting and accelerating change at the school level by engaging school leaders, alumni and corps members. The goal is to see students growing academically and personally, including in their abilities to access opportunities and in their sociocultural and political consciousness. This is how we know they are on a path of expanded life opportunities. You will be charged with the instructional leadership development of the corps members in your portfolio, ensuring that they achieve ambitious outcomes for students and the long-term leadership needed to fight for educational equity.
Management and Coaching (60%)
- Plan on a quarterly basis towards end of year goals, including strategically calendaring school visit and coaching cycles
- Manage a subset of schools within a community group and execute consistent short cycle coaching across multiple grades and content areas that strengthens corps member practice and impacts student outcomes at a school
- Provide adaptive leadership coaching to all corps members that is inclusive and differentiated based on each corps member’s vision, school context, and student goals
- Maintain a constant pulse on corps member experience and impact and leverage others to respond to problems and opportunities that arise
- Use corps member retention and satisfaction data to inform planning and strategy, and maintain high expectations for your and your team’s results in the area of corps member satisfaction
Relationship Building (20%)
- Build relationships through multiple touch points to connect with corps members' diverse styles, strengths, and needs
- Maintain consistent, clear, compelling, and timely communication with key stakeholders including corps members and alumni, your Director, and other members of the community group
- Develop powerful coaching relationships by always motivating CMs and modeling persistence and innovative thinking in challenging situations
Collaborating with Others (20%)
- Co-own team goals and reliably deliver on individual goals
- Create networks of support around corp members and fosters the skills required for corps members to continue growing and leveraging their networks.
- Participate in regional and organization-wide initiatives and events such as corps member selection, staff learning and development days, new corps member confirmation, and other regional events
- 3+ years experience achieving ambitious outcomes as a classroom teacher in a low-income community required
- Instructional coaching or adult facilitation experience required
- Teach For America alumni preferred
Skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Expertise in effective teaching practices
- Proficiency in analyzing student data and proficiency in Excel preferred
- Ability to operate with extreme comfort in settings that require you to be flexible and adaptive
- Ability to establish rapport quickly and build relationships across lines of difference
Work Demands
- 1-2 weekend events a month and evening work hours required
- Ability to travel independently to multiple, potentially geographically distant school sites throughout the day and up to 5 days a week
- Ability to navigate school facilities that may or may not be ADA-compliant