As Managing Director, Teacher Development, you will be responsible for leading the vision, strategy, design and execution of experiences for teachers, primarily – but not limited to - all of the early admits to the corps. You will ensure we are designing and facilitating experiences that prepare our early admits and teachers for the rigors of teaching but also lifelong systems leadership to the end of educational equity. We seek to do this in a way that both meets our junior admit confirmation and matriculation goals and also increases teacher Net Promoter Score (NPS) - both of which are necessary in order for our organization to meet its breakthrough results. This position will report directly to the Vice President, Teacher Development on the Teacher Engagement team.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Take the lead on, and then work in partnership, to set the vision and direction for how to develop, motivate and confirm our early admits
- Together with another MD, Teacher Development, determine the principles that all design work coming out of our team will embody in order to ensure quality
- Work in close partnership with another MD and potentially manage a Director to design and execute programs that meet said bar and drive toward our teacher engagement goals (EDL confirmation & matriculation + teacher CSI, CALI & NPS)
- Track and analyze progress to goals in order to problem solve and innovate in ways that enable both scale and personalization of effective strategies
- Partner with regions to set direction, facilitate learning, build capacity and provide resources to support teacher engagement - particularly with early admits
- Partner with the Participant Insights and Marketing & Socialization sub-teams to ensure that your/team’s design is user-first, relevant and attended/utilized
- Collaborate with admissions, recruitment and program teams to share/receive learnings, resources/tools and insights
- Partner directly with the recruitment team on pre-corps experiences that may be run through the recruitment team, or in partnership with the recruitment team
- Ensure learning is captured, codified and utilized from the various pre-corps/teacher experiences
Design, Research, Evaluation & Strategy, including Lateral and Vertical Management (60%)
- Take the lead on, and then work in partnership with the other Managing Director, Teacher Development and the Director, Teacher Development, to set ambitious yet feasible goals for our teacher-facing work (primarily, but not limited to, our pre-corps work) that ultimately drive the organization’s breakthrough results
- Set vision and strategy - and then manage design and execution - in a way that meets the aforementioned goals and is aligned the organization’s broader priorities
- Determine and execute a plan for monitoring efficacy of products and experiences and adjusting accordingly
Cross-team Collaboration (30%)
- Internalize the organization’s broader foundations and strategy, and ensure your/team’s work aligns to it
- Collaborate closely with our Participant Insights team to ensure your products and experiences target our users’ needs and contexts
- Inform and support the systems and structures established by our Strategy & Operations sub-team, in order to facilitate collaboration, efficiency and unity across the four functions of our team
- Collaborate closely with our Design and Marketing & Socialization sub-teams to ensure they market and socialize your products and experiences in a way that is both enticing and sets user expectations appropriately
- Assume ownership of and contribute to the culture, systems and processes required of a team that is highly collaborative and where the work is touched by each sub-team
- Demonstrate these same skills and thoughtfulness to regions and other national partners so that we are united as “One TFA”
- In partnership with the other Managing Director, Teacher Development, own and develop the design wing’s culture and efficacy
Personal Leadership and Responsibilities (10%)
- Engage in your own personal and professional development and planning to continually improve your effectiveness and bring marketing and socialization insights and best practices to our work
- Engage in organizational responsibilities such as personal administrative duties, corps member selection processes, and organizational and team culture stewardship
Skills/Experience:
- Experience designing and managing large, cross-functional projects highly preferred
- Experience and comfort with having autonomy over program-level vision, design & execution that aligns and maps up to a broader overarching strategy highly preferred
- Previous experience running programs preferred
- 6+ years of work experience preferred, including experience designing & facilitating adult learning
- Previous Teach For America staff experience preferred
- Demonstrated ability to manage high-stakes, complex projects with multiple layers of stakeholders and constituents
- Proven success in both laterally and vertically managing peers across teams toward ambitious outcomes
- Ability to set and evolve an innovative and compelling vision
- Good judgment and strong problem solver; excellent critical thinking skills
- Strong ability to manage many projects at one time
- Excellent communication (especially written) & influencing skills
Work Demands.
- Working with colleagues who are based all over the country – using remote technologies and traveling periodically for in-person collaboration (estimated travel is 1-2x/quarter)
Skills:
- Proactive, flexible, independent, and optimistic approach to work and must operate with a high level of entrepreneurialism
- Strong adaptability to shifting contexts while maintaining ability to deliver high-quality work consistently and on time
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and work with individuals at all levels of the organization, seeing situations from multiple perspectives
- Learning orientation to work; proactively solicits and implements feedback consistently
- Superb organization, detail-orientation, and project management skills
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 6 2018
Active Until:
Oct 6 2018
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit