Each year, Teach For America receives tens of thousands applications to the corps. As the Director, Selector Learning & Development you will play an essential role in training, developing and managing the performance of all staff selectors, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to make exceptional decisions about who demonstrates the values and leadership necessary to expand opportunity and access for all children. Specifically, you will set the vision and direction for creating a self-sustaining learning community for hundreds of part-time staff that support Teach For America’s corps member selection. You will lead the design of training, development and performance management for all part-time staff members that review corps member applications, as well as a small cohort of part-time staff that lead final interviews. This role is for someone passionate about identifying leaders ready to take on the challenges of the corps, as well as someone energized by developing expertise in our selection model in order to operate as a steward of that model for staff.
- Leads with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusiveness in all aspects of the work
- Sets vision and direction, including establishing measures of success and priorities, for growing the size and impact of our part-time selector force with a focus on establishing a thriving learning community (10%)
- Collaborates with the Managing Director, Selector Learning & Development to develop and execute trainings and resources that are user-friendly, engaging and meet a diverse group of selectors’ developmental needs (20%)
- Works in collaboration with the Admissions Operations team to hire part-time staff for both the applicant reviewer and part-time selector roles (10%)
- Charts the path for pilots that maximize the part-time selector role to have a broader impact on organizational goals (15%)
- Develops an approach to evaluating applicant reviewer and part-time selector performance to ensure high-quality decisions are consistently made for all applicants (15%)
- Provides actionable feedback and coaching when necessary for staff needing additional support (10%)
- Plays a key role in our quality control process, ensuring fair, consistent and excellent decisions for all applicants (20%)
- Five to seven years of professional experience
- Experience in hiring, admissions, or people performance and development preferred
- Experience designing and facilitating training preferred
- TFA staff experience preferred
Work Demands
- Ability to travel to in-person meetings in various U.S. cities 4-5 times a year
Skills
- Exemplifies Teach For America’s core values and value working with colleagues with diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- Ability to quickly master the essential skills of highly effective selectors, including: exercise cultural competence; internalize selection competencies; identify patterns and tensions in evidence; draw evidence-based conclusions while adhering to legal hiring practices
- Designs clear, engaging and learner-centered trainings and resources for complex concepts to groups of diverse learners
- Develops and manages multiple project plans that take into account the priorities, resources and deadlines of multiple functional units; clearly tracks, proactively communicates progress and manages towards deadlines
- Builds positive relationships with staff that have varying levels of skill and/or investment
- Demonstrates solid proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint