The Director, Corps Member Onboarding will oversee all aspects of the incoming corps member (CM) experience – from the moment a corps member is accepted to Teach For America, to being certified, and securing a teaching position. The DCM will ensure corps members meet all onboarding/certification requirements and begin to build the mindsets and leadership orientations needed to teach and lead in the Greater Delta. In addition, the DCM will be responsible for building and stewarding relationships with external partners by managing a portfolio of district and school relationships with leaders and administration responsible for hiring new teacher talent. The Director, Corps Member Onboarding will secure and maintain two-year teaching positions for our incoming corps members in their placement districts by sustaining strong and open communication and ongoing working relationships with our partnering districts’ hiring managers. The DCM will be responsible for ensuring CMs meet all testing, certification, and placement requirements and will contribute to overall strategic placement planning. The Director will report to the Managing Director, Immersion, Recruitment, & Community Integration.
Areas of Responsibility:
Corps Member Onboarding, Hiring, Design & Execution (50%)
- Long-term operational planning and managing execution of the entire confirmation and matriculation process for the Greater Delta
- Collaborate to create a seamless regional immersion experience members of our regional team to ensure incoming corps members reach the first days of school with a deep knowledge and understanding of regional context and place
- Design and manage systems to track and store complex sets of data needed to inform strategy and decisions as well as for meeting funding and grant requirements
- Design and facilitate the Greater Delta’s hiring process ensuring all Corps are placed and hired before first days of school
- Design and lead confirmation and matriculation campaign grounded in a deep belief of our selection model and that leads to achieving our regional goals, priorities and outcomes
- Manage communication with incoming corps members and among relevant stakeholders including institute, district, and Teach For America staff, in a manner aligned to national and regional communication standards
- Develop an incoming corps culture centered on our regional vision
- Design and lead the work to ensure corps members are certified, hire-ready, and prepared to be placed/hired in schools
- Managing the certification and licensure process for all incoming CMs in Mississippi, which includes making sure all CMs are registered for the correct Praxis test, all tests scores are recorded, and all licensure packets are turned in to the state on time
- Ensuring that all paperwork around certification and licensure is properly recorded and filed
- Maintaining and strengthening our relationship with the Office of Licensure at the Mississippi Department of Education and Arkansas Department of Education
- Working with colleagues to ensure that all tasks and steps in projects are completed on time
- Managing expectations and clearly communicate action items to corps members in order to ensure that all stay in compliance with state and district regulations
- Completing Title 2 and other reporting responsibilities annually
- Routinely collect data from incoming corps member on their experience of the support, structure, and communications to inform approach and any necessity for adjustments
- Collaborate with the Managing Director, Immersion Impact Team and others to design and execute a comprehensive strategic plan that invests our leaders in this context and builds their excitement and clarity about the opportunities and complexity of our context and necessity of their leadership as they begin the regional leg of the participant journey in the region
Build Relationships and Manage Internal and External Partnerships (20%)
- Lead regional efforts to build relationships with school districts and the departments of education (pertinent to licensure) in ways that foster partnership and advance our vision for the region
- Support colleagues in Leadership and Learning to design placement strategy that maximizes our impact in Mississippi/Arkansas and deepens partnership with local school districts hiring personnel
- Work alongside Leadership and Learning Teams to create hiring timeline and plan that meets our FDOS placement goals
- Working with team and district partners to ensure that corps members are placed in positions for which they are certified in one of our district partners
Collaboration and Partnership across Teams (10%)
- Engage with other continuum team members to execute onboarding campaigns
- Lead efforts to work collaboratively across the continuum team to manage principal and school relationships
- Training and investing staff members to execute during confirmation windows
- Creating and regulating messages to staff and applicants regarding our mission, region, work, and onboarding process accurately and in a timely fashion
Lead Across the Continuum and Build the Movement (10%)
- Collaborate with other regional functional teams to share stories of our work in ways that move our collective work forward toward our vision and goals
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with key internal and external partners
- Maintain systems for data collection that ensure we can report out on progress and goals in a way that supports our collective work as a region
- Engage with continuum team members to plan for regional institute including but not limited to collaborating on planning for summer engagement with new corps members, identifying partnership opportunities in the school and district, and ensuring the alignment of programming across the continuum
- Engage with continuum team members to support design of continuum experiences to ensure excellence and cohesion across the continuum
Region-wide and Organization-wide Responsibilities (10%)
Teach For America thrives on cross-functional partnerships throughout our organization. Our staff members are skilled in working across layers, understanding and managing through the reality of competing commitments, navigating these situations with grace, and being culture leaders within our regional team. We do this by upholding an orientation towards flexibility and generosity while also remaining deeply committed to a sense of possibility and achievement. While some days we work independently to achieve milestones, realizing our goals requires regular collaboration at all levels. Everyone shows their support for region-and-organization-wide initiatives by actively engaging in the following:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness professional development
- Corps member induction
- Corps member professional development days
- Corps member hiring events
- Corps member acceptance confirmation
- Regional staff recruitment and talent cultivation
- Cross-functional special projects
- Corps member selection interviews
- All staff leadership development and team building
- Regional social events with staff, corps members, and alumni
Educational Background:
Master’s degree preferred. Bachelor’s degree required.
Skills/Experience:
- You are an orchestrator. You love to make the complex simple - especially when you’re sitting at the intersection of a matrixed organization and can create clarity for others. Your partners across the region are inspired by your leadership which motivates them to be courageous and bold.
- You are committed to disrupting patterns of racial inequality. You strive to be a fully self-actualized leader. You address issues of race, class, and privilege because equity leads to better results for everyone.
- You are passionate about people’s experience and understanding. You care deeply about people feeling seen, heard, appreciated, supported and challenged as they navigate complex systems. You create systems and structures that enable others to see the end goal, potential pathways, and current position, so they can effectively exercise their agency as leaders. You have successfully designed and executed systems and structures that allow people to understand a multifaceted intake system and keep pace with where they are in the process without experiencing fatigue
- You love collaboration and collective action. You recognize the importance of doing this work in partnership with others, internally across teams and roles, and externally with our partners and community. People enjoy partnering with you and believe that you care about and seek out their perspectives and find ways to execute projects that reflect the brilliance of many. Your colleagues and our network describe you as an awesome team player who makes people feel valued regardless of identity markers (role, tenure, alumni status, college tier).
- You achieve quick wins while always keeping the long game in mind. You are energized by doing the tough work today while also keeping your eye on the ball ten years from now because when you do, you ask bigger, more important questions and deliver better, short-term success.
- You operate with a learning orientation. You are an exemplar of lifelong learning and are a reflective practitioner who is committed to your own growth and development in service to increasing your capacity to accelerate the attainment of the mission and lead.
- You establish deep relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. You understand the importance of maintaining proximity with people within and beyond the organization in service to the mission and operate in a manner that conveys your belief in people and our Core Values and DEI Aspirations.
Prior Experience
- Minimum of three to five years of work experience preferred
- Experience working in and with the Greater Delta community strongly preferred
- Teach For America corps member experience strongly preferred
- Teach For America Greater Delta regional context experience strongly preferred
- Project management experience preferred
Work Demands
- Some evening and weekend work required
- Some travel (once per quarter)
- Occasionally transport up to 50 pounds
Skills
- Vision Centered and outcomes-driven
- Deep commitment to diversity and inclusiveness
- Experience translating data into actionable solutions for a team
- Judgment and ability to navigate organizational complexity and understand nuance
- Finds real joy in supporting people as they begin a new venture
- Consistently practice reflection and intentionally learn and grow to improve
- Able to build strong relationships and work with individuals at all levels of an organization
- Incredible customer service orientation
- Awareness of the role of race, class, power and privilege
- Uncommon commitment to pursuing meaningful results
- Significant experience making strong decisions and prioritizing vision centered actions
- Consistently practice reflection and intentionally learn and grow to improve
- Build and maintain strong relationships with those who have a stake in the ongoing work
- Have a deep commitment to Teach For America’s mission and values
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 29 2019
Active Until:
Oct 29 2019
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit