As a New York Director, Program Design, you are responsible for working with colleagues on the New York Programs team to determine the vision, parameters, measures of success, and workflow for corps member leadership development initiatives. Specifically, you are the primary designer of content for the full continuum of a corps members’ leadership development, beginning with onboarding, institute, and ongoing learning and development throughout the two year commitment. You will continue to analyze our teachers’ most salient challenges in their path to becoming strong culturally responsive educators and leverage promising opportunities in New York City to identify solutions. You will design a curriculum of learning experiences for teachers, along with accompanying tools for staff who support them and coordinate the implementation of these trainings alongside content designers and professors at our certifying partner, Relay Graduate School of Education (GSE). You will also work closely with other members of the Program Design Team to hire, onboard, and manage a part-time team throughout the spring and the summer to continuously manage members of the regional programs team toward strong programmatic outcomes. It will also require working with diverse constituencies to ensure programmatic alignment, most notably with our master’s degree granting graduate school partner and our school placement partners.
Leadership Development Design (50%)
- Set a compelling vision for corps member leadership development across the two year continuum aligned to national theories and our regional context.
- Lead teammates on the Programs Team to develop a plan for corps member and alumni centralized learning structures throughout the pre-service, institute, year one, and year two phases of the Corps Member Experience.
- Analyze our teachers’ most salient challenges in their path to becoming strong culturally responsive educators and leverage promising opportunities with the Programs Team to identify solutions.
- Develop a suite of learning experiences tailored to our regional theory of leadership development.
- Create and build investment among members of the Programs Team in our corps member learning design through onboarding, institute, and ongoing CM experience.
- Partner with members of the Programs Operations Team to ensure there is a coherent and connected corps member experience that builds strong culture and connectedness alongside their leadership development.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure strong buy-in, alignment, and execution of corps member learning experience (35%)
- Collaborate with Relay Graduate School of Education to ensure programmatic alignment between content, pedagogical, and leadership strands of development.
- Develop awareness and capacity in external partners to execute on TFA initiatives as they work to meet the Institute and the larger regional visions.
- Lead two working groups to manage the design of first and second year programming and support the team to internalize the content.
- Continuously laterally manage members of our regional programs team and work with Relay GSE toward strong, cohesive, and aligned programmatic outcomes in the corps member participant journey.
- Where necessary, participate in broader organizational planning, initiatives, and working groups (such as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness (DEI) worktable, DEI Practitioners Group, Institute Working Groups), to maintain an up-to-date point of view on organizational thinking.
All Staff Expectations (15%):
- Sit on the Institute Management Team with other members of the Program Design Team, Program Operations Team, and Relay Partners and support hiring, management, and training of seasonal staff members as necessary.
- Support broader regional and organizational priorities, including selecting new corps members, supporting staff recruitment, attending regional team meetings, and supporting other functional regional initiatives.
- Operate with a deep commitment to our core values, including fostering a diverse movement by partnering with people in the communities that may offer differing perspectives such as parents, teachers, and school leaders.
- At least 6+ years of work experience preferred, including teaching and at least two years of design experience.
- Experience and expertise in designing and/or leading conversations around race, class and privilege across lines of difference.
- Prior experience coaching, motivating and leading teachers.
Work demands:
- Ability to work some weekends and evenings; occasional travel
Skills:
- Ability to build deep and meaningful relationships with others
- Innovative and creative dispositions balanced with strategic discipline and vision orientation
- Talent in influencing others toward outcomes through sophisticated relationship management
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- Strategic thinking and ability to see and leverage connections between multiple work streams