The Senior Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development is a key leader overseeing the effectiveness and functionality of a team of coaches, 100 teachers, and the development of the regional Institute. The SMD, TLD is able to manage direct reports across lines of difference and set key vision and strategy that will inspire the team. You are laser-focused on academic outcomes for Milwaukee’s students, and you know how to develop and coach adults in order to achieve these outcomes. As the head of the TFA-Milwaukee Program you will be managed by the Executive Director, who partners with you to ensure you are dreaming big about systemic solutions to educational inequity. You are inspired by this challenge and able to delegate, motivate, and inspire others to own this work. You will be a key member of the TFA-Milwaukee leadership team, ensuring our regional efforts continue to align to the ambitious outcomes we aspire to.
We have an opportunity in Milwaukee to redefine what success looks like for our students, and you are the person who will help us understand what this looks like and help us drive toward it.
Set Vision for the Milwaukee Program and Manage the Program Team (60%)
- Own and maximize Teach For America’s long-term positive program impact
- Support in the development of the TFA-Milwaukee Leadership Development model; support the development of a coherent, aligned, and comprehensive vision and strategy for the TFA participant experience from Induction as a corps member to alumnihood
- Define interim and final success goals, and regularly track progress against these metrics, resetting strategy dynamically as needed
- Oversee development of regional data goals and collection data, all through a lens of culturally responsive teaching and data practices
- Assess and optimize relationships with corps members and alumni, including regularly learning how we can best support them and strategically evolve our approach, connect them to each other and utilize their experience and expertise to better support the network; serve as a key thought leader grounded in diversity, equity, and inclusion for systems and school leaders
- Define strategic communications outcomes and coach and manage staff in developing strategies to pursue them
- Develop and evolve relationships in the landscape grounded in a shared vision of excellent education for all and to advance our mission and strategy
- Leverage the latest research and innovations in leadership development nationally at TFA and broadly in the field, and evolve strategies to reflect the research
- Coach and develop team to build their own expertise as system change leaders and drive increasingly strong outcomes
- Manage and develop leaders of the program team
- Facilitate a team lift toward five all corps meetings throughout the year, overseeing session development and facilitation, external communication and logistical work
Design, Plan, and Execute the TFA-Milwaukee Summer Institute (20%)
- Collaborate with team to create the culture and community necessary for new participants to succeed as a united corps at Institute
- Create the arc of development for new teacher leaders, and project manage the design of learning experiences aligned to this arc
- Establish vision of excellence for design and facilitation at Institute, and manage team leaders in the creation and execution of learning experiences that live up to this vision
- Ensure all regional team members are kept informed of ongoing developments and roles within the regional Institute, including delegation of logistical, culture, and facilitation duties throughout the summer
- Manage one direct report who is directly responsible for execution of project
Serve on the TFA-Milwaukee Leadership Team (10%)
- Provide key insights on our progress toward transformational outcomes in Milwaukee that will guide our regional vision and priorities
- 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
- Sustain yourself in this work and model this for our team, corps, and alumni
Perform Ongoing Regional Responsibilities (10%)
- Participate in our region’s corps member selection, matriculation, induction, and ongoing engagement initiatives
- Attend regional meetings and retreats held throughout the year, biweekly staff meetings, and occasional conferences and trainings
- Teach For America corps, staff, or institute experience highly preferred
- Senior leadership experience at a high-performing K-12 school highly preferred but not required
- Experience managing and leading teams required
- Knowledge of the Milwaukee education landscape preferred, but not required
- Professional learning design experience preferred
- Strong track record of achieving extraordinary, measurable results
- Ability to perform high-level analysis of academic performance data and synthesize it into meaningful goals and strategy
- Ability to set vision and direction and mobilize team toward that vision
- Must be energized by coaching and managing adults
- Ability to develop and push others across lines of difference
- A clear and direct communicator; able to compel team members to action in individual and group settings
- Behind all these skills, must possess a sense of urgency to drive toward ambitious results for Milwaukee’s children
Work Demands
- Willing to attend and support monthly weekend professional development events
- Ability to travel independently to local schools and partner offices