Leadership Coaches on the Eastern North Carolina (ENC) regional team will shape a new way of supporting and coaching a committed community of corps members, alumni, and partners toward actualizing on local, contextualized visions for systems change in their respective counties. Each coach will be responsible for coaching corps members and alumni, building diverse coalitions, and leveraging the scale and diversity of our network to maximize our impact in Eastern North Carolina while driving toward our national breakthrough results.
To be successful, a leadership coach must be a critical thinker who is able to collaboratively develop a bold vision, strategies and an operating plan to achieve this vision, and then execute to achieve results that will advance local and regional progress toward our vision for One Day in ENC. This individual must be comfortable in an entrepreneurial environment, possess an exceptionally high level of personal responsibility for achieving ambitious results, and must be able to build strong and sustainable relationships with the ability to interact with partners at all levels of the organization and across local constituencies at the district, county, and state level. This person is driven by a desire to ensure the conditions necessary to lead toward broad level systems change are created in their local community.
This position provides an unparalleled opportunity for innovative individuals who love to consistently interrogate their own learning. The ideal person is passionate about creating a program whose leaders are obsessed with reimagining public education, so our students can thrive in a global society and economy. This person has a heightened awareness of the systemic challenges facing communities that allow educational inequity to persist. They demonstrate an orientation and commitment to individual and collective growth in identity development and critical consciousness.
Coaching and Empowering Corps Members and Alumni (40%)
- Coach supports a cohort of 20-30 corps members to plan for and take actions that result in significant changes in classrooms, thereby demonstrating results and putting kids on a path of expanded opportunities in life
- Develop and strengthen a community of corps members and alumni that develops, sustains, and drives achievement of a collective, contextualized vision for their community
- Create, experience, and contribute to a culture that is uplifting, energy-giving, sustaining, challenging, rigorous, loving, communal and student achievement-oriented, and that encourages every member to be their best and take on publicly growing pedagogical and leadership skills to bring about change for students
- Develop a member driven learning culture that accelerates the impact of our members
- Plan and execute high quality adult learning experiences for members that are grounded in Teach For America’s position on adult learning (PAL)
Cultural Leadership, Community Building, Partnership (45%)
- Cultivate and maintain deep relationships across a broad and diverse coalition of stakeholders including district leaders, community leaders, alumni and corps members to advance Teach For America’s contribution in Eastern North Carolina
- Partner with community members and organizations to develop a local, historical analysis of the education systems within the community, identifying points of progress, key levers for change, and Teach For America’s future role and current impact
- Partner with community members and organizations to develop the necessary local programming to empower corps members and alumni to maximize their impact and fuel student leadership
- Collaborate with the centralized program team members to engage in a centralized placement and hiring process for corps members (with CM Pipelines) managing relationships with HR and Superintendent
- Collaborate with centralized program team members to engage corps members and alumni in professional development aligned to implementation of our emerging theory of leadership development
- Collaborate with development team to liaise with local supporters (funders, key supporters, etc.) on how to build cases for support at a local level
- Assess impact across a variety of measures, use data to make strategic decisions and to manage toward ambitious goals
- Develop strategies aligned to our achieving cohort/county based breakthrough results
Collective Responsibility Regional Projects (15%)
- Fulfill foundational responsibilities that allow our region to do our work, make decisions, grow as professionals, and strengthen our team culture, including but not limited to: attending regional meetings, operating with our Core Values and commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness, completing our performance management cycle, and upholding our data management, office operations, and fiscal responsibilities
- Make a direct impact on the organizational mission of enlisting, developing and mobilizing leaders to strengthen the movement for educational equity by
- Participating in the selection of incoming corps members (6-10 days total plus preparation and close out time)
- Participating in matriculation of new corps members (up to six windows across the year)
- Supporting and staffing large scale regional and corps member facing events (including All Corps Learning Summits and Summer Training), and other initiatives that impact our members and partners
- Attending and engaging in all-staff meetings, retreats, small team cohorts, and stepbacks throughout the year
- 4+ years of work experience preferred
- A track record of achieving ambitious, measurable outcomes
- Experience coaching adults and designing programming for adult leaders
- Knowledge of the educational landscape in Eastern North Carolina preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build relationships with others to develop partnerships that will lead toward systemic change
- Embodies core values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness
- Demonstrates excellent judgment and critical thinking skills
- Ability to define and invest and unite individuals in working toward a collective vision
- Operates with a high level of independence, personal responsibility, entrepreneurialism and optimism
- Strong project management and time management skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Suite
Work Demands
- Ability to travel across the region
- Occasional overnight travel (3-4 times per year) required for attendance at various local and national conferences
- Occasional weekend and evening work required