As a New York Director, Programs, you serve as the primary relationships holder with corps members (CMs), alumni, and school leaders for a portfolio of approximately 12-15 placement schools, most likely in proximate neighborhoods. You are responsible for leveraging a wide range of resources, including those available from TFA, schools, districts, charter networks, Relay Graduate School of Education, and neighborhood resources, as well as your own talents and skills, to facilitate the successful integration of approximately 35 corps members into their placement school communities. To accomplish this, you will coach and develop the leadership of your cohort of CMs to become stronger culturally responsive educators, resulting in meaningful academic and personal growth for their students. You will coach them through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, and support them to develop this lens for themselves, keeping the underlying causes and effects of inequity in mind as they develop themselves as educators and leaders. You will also take ownership of the hiring strategy for your school portfolio by partnering closely with principals, supporting them to hire CMs who will be the best fit for their school. You will also know and engage with the TFA alumni working in your portfolio schools, leveraging them to support CMs and connecting them to leadership opportunities that contribute to the broader New York regional vision. Collectively, along with your fellow Program Team members and other stakeholders and supporters, your work will impact thousands of NYC students and inspire a new generation of culturally responsive teacher-leaders deeply committed to the students and communities of New York City. In the long term, you will directly contribute to our vision of supporting great neighborhood schools – schools where every PK-12th grade student is supported, inspired, and challenged to be the leaders our city needs.
Corps Member Leadership, Satisfaction, and Impact (45%)
- Develop corps members’ leadership(e.g., vision, racial identity development, dispositions toward culturally responsive education, etc.) through one-on-one and group learning experiences that create a sense of community, uncover strengths and skills, and build emotional resilience
- Analyze classroom level impact by observing each CM teach at least 4 times a year, and collecting and analyzing classroom level data
- Support CMs to identify personal and professional development priorities and connect CMs to placement school, alumni, district/network, Relay Graduate School of Education, and TFA resources to ensure they are successful in their roles, committed to their placement schools, integrated into their school communities, and achieving meaningful academic and personal student growth in their classrooms
- Facilitate leadership development sessions, through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, to groups of 20 - 30 corps members at our Regional Summer Training Institute
- Collaborate with the Teacher Preparation Team, as well as Summer Institute staff, to support and develop our corps members in line with our regional vision and Theory of Leadership, as well as to develop positive, collaborative, and mission-focused summer school and corps culture.
- Collaborate with other DPs to plan and execute CM-facing group learning experiences (see ‘Teamwork’ section)
- Partner closely with Relay Graduate School of Education professors and advisors to ensure strong coherence and relevance across instructional and leadership development for corps members.
School Partnerships and Corps Member Hiring (30%)
- Partner with school leaders in their efforts to support, develop and retain their CMs..
- Develop, build, and strengthen the quality of partnerships with schools to align with the NY regional vision so that CMs are positioned to have a greater impact and commit longer to their schools
- Execute hiring, matching, and partnership strategies to ensure that we partner with schools where corps members can have the greatest impact and are hired by the first day of school
Alumni Engagement and Strategic Partnerships (10%)
- Build relationships with alumni in placement schools to ensure we have accurate alumni data in order to identify the ways in which we can best engage them
- Innovate and execute strategies to engage alumni in your portfolio of schools and connect them to leadership opportunities in service of our regional vision
- Leverage alumni presence in schools to support CMs and build community amongst alumni and CMs, both in schools and in the surrounding neighborhood
Teamwork (10%)
- Commit to planning and executing one of our centralized CM support programs (for example, CM Fellowships)
- Collaborate with other Program and NY regional staff to confirm, onboard, and support incoming CMs, both in and beyond your own cohort
- Play supporting role in team and region wide events
- Programs, New York Regional, and National participation:
- Contribute to ongoing Programs team meetings (i.e. sub-team, boroughs, full team, etc.)
- Participate in all-staff meetings, activities and events such as selection, confirmation, strategic planning and conferences/summits
- Adhere to all deadlines, action items, and structures to support the work of our regional team
- At least 5+ years of work experience (teaching preferred)
- Experienced and passionate about engaging in conversations around race, class, and privilege across lines of difference
- Deep experience in and holistic understanding of schools and communities in NYC
- Prior experience coaching, motivating, and leading adults
Work demands:
- Ability to work some weekends and evenings; occasional travel
Skills:
- Strategic thinking and ability to see and leverage connections between multiple work streams
- Ability to build deep and meaningful relationships with others
- Ability to provide others with effective professional development, coaching, and mentoring
- Talent in influencing others toward outcomes through sophisticated relationship management
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- Ability to maintain vision-orientation amidst an ever-changing and complex landscape