The Managing Director, Leadership Development (MDLD) is responsible for developing and holding a compelling, coherent vision for corps member and alumni leadership and impact. The MD, Leadership Development must hold a compelling vision for the role our network plays in advancing educational equity and design and execute a streamlined leadership program that builds the movement of leaders in our region.
We are at a critical point in our path to One Day in the California Capital Valley. This requires us to not only ensure we are creating the pathways and opportunities for long term leadership in our region but that we foster the behavior, beliefs and ways of being of our corps and alumni in ways that catalyze them to act and influence change leading to educational equity across our region. Right now our corps members play a pivotal role in influencing the path for thousands of students and our alumni are leading efforts to advance educational equity through high impact roles in education and civic engagement, and through entrepreneurship and the non-profit sector. The MD will play a central role in identifying the opportunities to grow and scale our impact and evolve our program to meet the demands of students, parents, families, school partners and community leaders.
The Managing Director, Leadership Development will be responsible for the development of corps member and alumni programming, deriving year-long or multi-year strategy with aligned goals, and communicating our impact to diverse set of stakeholders. The Managing Director, Leadership Development will oversee a program team and directly manage a Director, Teacher Leadership Development; two Managers, Teacher Leadership Development; a Manager, Program Equity and Operations; and a Manager, Professional Development and Corps Experience. Together this team will design and execute strategy for corps member and alumni leadership development.
The MDLD will report to the Executive Director and will serve as a member of the regional Management Team. The charge of the Management Team is to continue to consult and advice on strategic priorities, shape and lead our regional culture and staff experience, and support our efforts on ensuring we tell a compelling story of our work, steward regional resources, and help build a broad and diverse coalition of champions we need to accelerate impact towards One Day.
Set and Hold Vision / Determine and Drive Strategy
- Establish a long-term regional vision for corps culture, regional corps development (and as our work develops this will include alumni leadership) reflective of regional and organizational leadership development frameworks that will accelerate the pace of change responsive to our communities and aligned to our regional vision.
- Develop, hold, and continuously improve on a compelling vision for student outcomes that includes dramatic academic and personal growth.
- Set ambitious and meaningful goals related to corps member outcomes, alumni outcomes, and student outcomes, with aligned strategies and operational plans.
- Articulate core strategies that will propel our regional program forward in achieving long-term vision and shorter-term benchmarks, including in the first year how we develop a vision for alumni leadership development that shapes our work with corps members.
- Manage the integration of movement-building work such as ED and Leadership Development Summits along with teacher coaching and training to maximize teacher outcomes and corps/alumni culture.
- Set strategies related to corps member and alumni retention, while responding to their unique leadership development pathways over time.
- Manage the Teacher Leadership Coaching and Educator Training for corps members and support our MTLDs to continually increase effectiveness.
- Monitor outcomes for Leadership Development strategies in order to assess progress and adjust strategies to achieve ambitious goals and drive toward prioritized outcomes.
- Vet all decisions and strategies through the lens of equity and inclusiveness, ensuring actions are toward equity and, as the team leader, demonstrate a cycle of continuously building skill and taking aligned action.
- Analyze the local landscape and develop insights around opportunities to accelerate our regional impact.
Build and Maintain Partnerships Relevant to Program Vision
- Build strong, authentic external relationships with a variety of partners, including (not limited to) school districts, nonprofit organizations, political training programs, charter management organizations, local organizations, and community leaders in ways that create the conditions for the growth and leadership of our network (corps/alumni).
- Lead our program team to build deep, meaningful relationships with schools and school leaders so that we strengthen our impact with corps members and students.
Build and Lead a Team that Accomplishes Meaningful Outcomes
- Manage a high-performing team of to achieve ambitious goals over the continuum of the corps member/alumni experience.
- Manage the team toward strong relationships with district and school partners, and relevant community partners.
- Develop a strong, outcomes-focused, culturally responsive, culture within the team and the corps.
- Foster leadership of the team in order to ensure strong contributions to all regional priorities.
- Lead the team to integrate regional priorities and core values in all of their work.
- Design and provide professional development opportunities to grow skill and knowledge in culturally responsive leadership and role-specific needs.
- Serve on the regional leadership or management team with Executive Director and other functional leads.
- Professional development experience designing and executing multi-faceted professional development for teachers and leaders grounded in best practices of adult learning, student learning, and ambitious vision for student outcomes
- Building relationships experience building and maintaining relationships internally and externally to an organization in ways that achieve organizational vision
- Coaching experience coaching and managing individuals and teams in complex situations with multiple channels of competing demands
- Strategic planning experience building short and long term strategic plans with defined outcomes, metrics, and benchmarks
Work Demands
- Some Weekend and evening work required
Approach to Work
- Visionary Leadership Ability to compel others to follow and embodies domains of culturally responsive leadership to catalyze our impact, both individual and collective, in the Miami Region. Desire to continually grow and learn as a leader.
- Team Management Ability to build and manage a team toward excellence and execution; ability to build authentic relationships, motivate, and also offer direct, critical feedback when necessary.
- Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness: Demonstrates an orientation to placing individual’s identity at the center of all work and a commitment to individual and collective growth in Racial Identity Development and Sociopolitical Cultural Consciousness. Demonstrated experience in applying culturally competent practices in a management setting.
- Flexible and Adaptable: Have a real appreciation for being flexible and responsive to changing landscapes and be able to pick up streams of work not explicitly stated in this job description
- Fun and Humor: Enjoy humor and levity in the ongoing work as part of a team and with your manager
- Organization: Excellent organizational and management skills and can apply best practices in time management, communication, and project planning
- Strategic Action: Ability to make informed, clear decisions from a theoretical and practical perspective and identify actions that yield meaningful results
- Mission/Metrics Balance: Ability to balance/manage toward the many numerical goals we have while keeping front-and-center the spirit by which they are designed.
- Conducting Analysis: Analyzing data, develop hypothesis, and draw accurate conclusions that inform management strategy
- Cultural Leadership: Ability to influence others in a way that builds a strong, healthy culture grounded in our core values and work collaboratively across functional team and orient others towards our regional team vision and culture