Back to top

Manager, Incoming Corps Members

This job is no longer available

New Orleans, LA, USA
Full-time

Teach For America Greater New Orleans is committed to ensuring our community is our nation’s first model for equity and excellence because our education system will consistently produce students that achieve and drive change in their community, the country and the world. To ensure we meet this vision we annually recruit, select and matriculate over 100 outstanding, diverse new leaders to join our movement. The operations, systems and internal and external coordination necessary to realize this goal is managed by the Manager, Incoming Corps Members.

This role is for you if:  

  1. You are excited to use your strong relationship building skills to compel others to action across both internal and external audiences and to leverage effective project management skills while using data to strengthen strategy and implementation ongoing. With this in mind, you manage our internal staff to make meaning of and execute on selecting prospective corps members and matriculating them to our region. You effectively and transparently communicate and track our progress. With incoming corps members, you leverage the same skills to ensure they are corps-ready and eligible before the first day of school.
  2. You believe that operations and systems fuel impact. You value the seamless integration of data, information and insights across a multi-faceted enterprise. You are able to assess organizational problems and from there define systems and solutions to account for efficiency, seamless integration and achievement. You have the credibility and trust of your team to operationalize our region-wide systems.
  3. You hold a strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality while thinking critically about what motivates others, display sound judgment in prioritization and in synthesizing information into manageable messages for new people. You build your lateral management skills across the region through selection and matriculation process implementation and strengthen your adult learning and development skills. You leverage these skills to ensure incoming corps member communications are clear and coherent and connected to our broader regional public affairs strategy, incoming corps member hiring strategy and execution and broader teacher development and program experience.
Areas of Responsibility: 

Manage Our Corps Member Selection & Matriculation Campaigns (35%)

  • Create and execute strategic plans to maximize the number of accepted corps members who confirm their offers to join TFA Greater New Orleans and who are retained in the corps through the first day of teaching
  • Invest and manage the GNO regional team’s participation, investment and execution in selection and matriculation campaigns across the year
  • Leverage best-in-class adult learning and development practices to develop team acumen and comfort in matriculating corps members to our region
  • Act as the matriculation manager and primary communication lead for the national Admissions, Selection, Recruitment and Pre-Service Teams ensuring the right information gets to the right team, as needed to drive our impact and continuum
  • Establish regional data and reporting systems to track corps member matriculation and retention trends and ensure those systems are user-friendly and leveraged from first contact with the region through alumnihood

Manage Incoming Corps Member Program Eligibility (35%)

  • Manage the roll out, maintenance and operational onboarding necessary for corps members to be eligible to join our program including but not limited to: AmeriCorps enrollment and ongoing AmeriCorps eligibility year-over-year, state teaching requirements and certification-readiness
  • Maintain external relationships with the Louisiana Department of Education and local teacher certification programs to ensure knowledge of state certification requirements and be able to clearly articulate them to others
  • Partner with the Teacher Leadership Development Team and Public Engagement Team to send weekly corps member communications and comprehensive onboarding guides to introduce corps members to the Greater New Orleans region and our expectations and requirements for successfully matriculating to the corps
  • Connect incoming corps members with the appropriate liaison from the Public Engagement Team and Teacher Leadership Development team to answer questions, provide context, connect them to current corps members, and more

Systems Optimization and Data Management (20%)

  • Audit our regional systems and structures for tracking the corps member experience, eligibility, and efficacy to understand the interdependencies, preferred methodology and different management systems available
  • Design a cohesive and clear protocol and approach for corps member data management and develop an approach to rolling out and managing the system
  • Invest your team and region in the data and systems that will accelerate collaboration and impact by tailoring your approach to different audiences and trusting relationships
  • Liaise with national teammates both on knowledge management and the admissions, recruitment and teacher leadership development teams to incorporate best-in-class learnings to our systems and approaches 

Ongoing Regional Responsibilities (10%)

Teach For America thrives on cross-functional partnerships throughout our organization. Our staff members are skilled in working across layers, empathizing with our colleagues around 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:

  • Corps member hiring events
  • Corps member acceptance confirmation
  • Regional staff recruitment and talent cultivation
  • Corps member induction
  • Cross-functional special projects
  • Corps member selection interviews
  • All staff leadership development and team building
  • Corps member professional development
  • Regional social events with staff, corps members, and alumni
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum of two years of work experience required, four years preferred
  • Teach For America alumnus strongly preferred
  • Knowledge of and context working in Greater New Orleans community preferred
  • Experience laterally managing a group of people or constituents to outcomes preferred
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, goal-oriented and fast-paced environment with a balance of humility and humor
  • Strong organization, detail orientation, and project management and execution skills
  • Exceptional customer service ethic and ability to suspend personal judgment
  • Ability to strategically connect details to the big picture
  • Substantial strength in verbal and written communications in both one-on-one and group settings with demonstrated ability to influence others to outcomes
  • A record of achieving strong results through others
  • Commitment to excellence and continuous learning and development to achieve impact
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Work Demands

  • Willingness and ability to participate, occasionally, in events that fall on nights and/or weekends
  • Willingness and ability to travel at least once per year for professional development purposes 
Job Function: 

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: 
Aug 31 2019
Active Until: 
Oct 1 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit