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Senior Managing Director, Program Impact

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Nashville, TN, USA
Full-time

We are seeking a Senior Managing Director of Program Impact (SMD, PI) who will maximize the impact, learning, and student outcomes of our program and network in the pursuit of educational equity across Nashville and Chattanooga.

TFA Nashville-Chattanooga is poised for extraordinary impact. This school year, we celebrated 10 years of impact in the Nashville community and laid the groundwork for expansion to Chattanooga in the 2019-2020 school year. Over the last 10 years, we have built an incredible network of over 1,000 TFA change-makers across Nashville and Chattanooga. This year, we were rated the top teacher program of 40 universities and job-embedded programs statewide by the State Board of Education for the second year in a row. With our corps members perennially achieving strong results as early career teachers and our alumni leading in key roles at all levels of the system, we seek a transformational SMD, PI who will lead our program into the next decade of impact.

As the SMD, PI, you will be the #1 staff member in charge of our regional program. You are, in essence, a movement builder. You will aspire to grow and strengthen the movements for educational equity across Nashville and Chattanooga by working to fully unleash the leadership and power of over 1,000 members of the TFA network across these cities.

As a top regional leader, you will also oversee large, consequential work streams and teams in the region, represent and make decisions in consideration of the region’s vision, hold senior authority in regional and Leadership Team decision-making, and serve as a key advisor and accountability partner to the Executive Director. In any given week, you might work with your program leadership team to re-imagine the continuum of developmental experiences for corps members, engage with local and state-level partners to explore collaboration opportunities and crosswalk our approaches, attend a national conference to stay at the top of your game in teaching, learning, and leadership development, coach a member of your program team on subjects such as measuring student outcomes or how to infuse adult learning best practices into our programming, or lead and oversee a transformational learning event for hundreds of TFA corps members and alumni. In this role, you will manage multiple operating units and direct reports, as well as oversee the learning and impact of approximately 16 staff members.

If you are successful, tens of thousands of students in Nashville and Chattanooga will have a greater chance to pursue their dreams and fulfill their potential over the next decade. 

Areas of Responsibility: 

Program Team Leadership (60%)

  • Ground your team in the region’s vision and goals, an aligned programmatic charge, and prioritized strategies that align to producing the outcomes called for in the vision and PLAN Priorities.
  • Oversee the learning and effectiveness of 16 program staff by directly managing the functional managers of our Professional Learning & Experience, Teacher Leadership Development, and Alumni Leadership teams. Design these teams and roles with an eye for aligned and coordinated operation.
  • Manage, coach and develop staff in alignment to values, skills, and time applications that will enable them to achieve their goals, maximize their impact across the team, and prepare them for additional levels of leadership. Fulfill this responsibility with a strong lens on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Set a strategy for metrics and data capture aligned to the set of outcomes your team seeks to achieve.

Regional Leadership (20%)

  • Align decisions, actions and priorities to the interests of Teach For America Nashville-Chattanooga.
  • Ensure alignment in strategy and execution across functional groups to achieve organizational goals.
  • Serve as a leader for regional culture and collaboration.
  • Model a strong commitment to the core values and diversity, equity, and inclusiveness commitments of Teach For America as well as professional learning and growth, including participation in national training and consulting opportunities.
  • Engage in Leadership Team meetings and provide input on the regional vision and direction.
  • Model and hold your team accountable to an owner's mindset around financial and asset stewardship that is focused on maximizing the impact of our resources and maintaining gold-standard compliance.
  • Actively partner with our External Affairs team to coordinate donor experiences with our corps and alumni.
  • Collaborate with our Deputy Executive Director to drive impact across both our Nashville and Chattanooga sites and to ensure internal strategic and operational alignment.

Regional and Organizational Stewardship (15%)

  • Support team and org-wide initiatives such as participating in committees, corps member recruitment, admissions, matriculation, and regional events.

Thought Leadership in Teaching, Learning, and Leading (5%)

  • Monitor the broader state of teaching, learning, and leadership development in our state and country, and work to continuously improve our programmatic approach.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree required
Skills/Experience: 
  • Demonstrated deep commitment to Teach For America’s mission, core values, and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusiveness
  • Experience managing a large team – preferably through layers – to achieve ambitious results in an education-related environment
  • Prior experience as an instructional coach, school administrator, Teach For America summer Institute or full-time staff member, or Teach For America MTLD or Program Director
  • Experience teaching and leading in a low-income community
  • Strong record of:
    • Achieving ambitious outcomes with a unit of adults (preferably multiple units)
    • Establishing a vision of excellence and building a culture of achievement with adults
    • Analyzing data to define opportunities and challenges, draw accurate conclusions, and inform team management approaches
    • Making informed, timely decisions and using sound judgment to prioritize actions
    • Developing and cultivating relationships and networks in order to achieve results or create opportunities
    • Managing others to effectively track tasks, assess progress, and follow through on the execution of plans 
  • Establishing a vision of excellence and developing a performance-driven culture
  • Making informed, timely decisions and using sound judgment to prioritize actions
  • Developing and cultivating deep relationships and networks (with all types of people in all types of contexts) that are grounded in shared vision and values in order to achieve results
  • Analyzing data to draw accurate conclusions and to inform team management approach
  • Managing others to effectively track tasks, assess progress, and follow through on the execution of plans, coaching and developing throughout
  • Being intentional in their own learning and development

Work Demands

  • Frequent travel to school, university, and community partner sites across Nashville
  • Able to attend evening or weekend events
  • Able to travel to national conferences or trainings 2-4 times per year
  • Able to travel to Chattanooga several times per year

Approach to Work

  • Vision-centered with strong outcomes orientation   
  • Finds joy in understanding the interplay of systems and strategies to identify opportunities and define approaches to innovation and improvement
  • Operates with urgency and sense of possibility
  • Able to develop strong partnerships and relationships across lines of difference
  • Committed to exploring issues of race, class, and privilege
  • Able to operate optimistically amidst ambiguity and to confidently manage interpersonal conflict
  • Strong proactive communicator and exceptional, humble listener
  • Excited about spending time coaching and developing people across a wide span of experience levels (from entry level through very senior leaders) both inside and outside of direct management lines
  • When things are extremely busy with lots of competing priorities, makes smart choices about what to prioritize and what matters most

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
May 2 2019
Active Until: 
Jun 2 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit