As a Director, Staff Leadership Development, you set the vision and strategy for our full-time staff training and development in both their onboarding and ongoing work with the New York Programs Team. You apply Teach For America’s emerging Theory of Leadership to our staff members’ development, to build their capacity to affect systems change in New York City. You will partner closely with other members of the Program Design Team to ensure that our staff are equipped with the skills necessary to facilitate our transformational coaching model and all of our corps member programming -- including onboarding, institute, and in-year programming for corps members.
Develop comprehensive strategy for staff leadership development
- Build knowledge on and develop expertise in our Theory of Leadership Development through strong collaboration with internal partners.
- Partner with managers of full-time staff to articulate a trajectory of onboarding and ongoing staff learning and development.
- Implement and support a rigorous staff development system through team, sub-team, and individual learning structures.
- Support our broader regional team in our ongoing development in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity work and other prioritized areas.
Lead staff development to enact the work of our Corps Member Leadership Development Curriculum
- Lead a working group focused on our transformational coaching work with corps members.
- Design learning experiences to support our staff’s preparation to lead our corps-member facing program across confirmation, onboarding, institute, and throughout the two-year commitment.
- Develop the adult facilitation and one-on-one coaching skills of our staff through ongoing learning structures.
- Participate in our Teaching for Educational Equity Working Group, focused on program design across the two year experience.
- Manage a team of seasonal Teaching for Educational Equity Facilitators at Institute.
Team Responsibilities
- Sit on the Institute Management Team with other members of the Program Design Team, Program Operations Team, and Relay Partners.
- 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 with at least two years of design work
- At least 4 years of adult facilitation experience or 2 years experience as a primary responsibility of a full-time role.
Work demands
- Ability to work some weekends and evenings; occasional travel.
- Increased workload and responsibilities during Spring and early Summer months.
Skills
- Strong understanding of systems power, privilege, and oppression and the ways in which they play out across multiple, intersecting lines of identity.
- Extensive experience and skill in adult learning facilitation, coaching, and leadership development.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to drive a project through many layers of management while eliciting group input, feedback, and ownership.
- Highly collaborative with a history of building relationships quickly in diverse settings.