The program partner role plays a crucial role in supporting high quality programming for our participants across our regional network. We are looking for candidates with a demonstrated track record of programmatic success and demonstrated ability to provide high quality coaching, facilitate learning experiences, and be a credible support to regional partners. You bring a deep belief in our theory of change, working knowledge of our current programmatic approach, and strong orientation to learning in all you do.
Areas of Responsibility:
Advising and Coaching Regions
- Program Partners will provide direct advice and coaching to regions on matters that pertain to program design, strategy, and execution. To perform these responsibilities, Program Partners work closely with experts from national program teams to ensure that customized support provided to regions is leveraging expertise and is aligned with national program and learning strategies.
- Leverage resources developed by national program and learning teams and encourage regions to access and optimally use resources readily available to develop capacity to advance program work at the regional level.
- Lead group learning experiences as needed in pursuit of regional progress. This may include but is not limited to setting vision for the learning cycle experiences, designing the protocols and agenda, creating resources that will facilitate the experience, and leveraging operations and logistics support to ensure these are effective and impactful experiences.
- Actively provide feedback of insights and information to partner national programs on resources, knowledge, and skills that are required to be developed in regions so that national programs can in turn develop scalable and high impact programming that can be of benefit across the network.
Leveraging foundational expertise in Teach For America programs
- To facilitate learning across the network, advise/coach/consult regions, and steward national program strategies, Program Partners are responsible for continuously developing their knowledge and foundational mastery of program theories, frameworks, strategies, offerings, and other aspects of national programming. In particular, Program Partners should focus on content that would enable them to facilitate learning, including evolution of learning questions and how to process and make sense of data.
- Program Partners must have knowledge and functional mastery of TFA’s knowledge management systems and closely collaborate with the OWLS team to ensure that we are not creating redundancies, and are leveraging and evolving our systems to enable and drive learning.
- Partner with national program and learning teams in supporting the evolution of national points of view, theories and frameworks, informed by their work with home teams and directly with regions.
Contributing to Organizational Leadership and Learning
- Program partner holds a mindset in which they see themselves as a deep partner to the region(s) and also a connector and facilitator of enterprise-wide improvement and learning.
- Contribute to a strong culture and partnership with national programs rooted in the organizational core values and our DEI commitments.
- Steward the organizational strategy, priorities, and advance impact toward breakthrough results.
Skills/Experience:
- Previous experience within Teach For America (corps member, alumni, previous employee) required.
- Design and facilitation experience required
- 5+ years’ experience in program work or program-related consulting work required
- Experience in experiential design and design and facilitation of adult learning experiences and/or product development
- Having a foundational level of data fluency, ability to analyze and codify learning from data, such that they are able to facilitate data-driven learning efforts with home teams that move metrics and advance impact
- Expert-level communication skills across phone, interview, and in person
- Comfort with ambiguity and able to be flexible to changing business needs
- Demonstrated ability to successfully build and manage relationships across lines of difference, with cultural competence, and with credibility
- Strong learning orientation; able to quickly take in and act upon new content knowledge as well as make sense of observations in region/team contexts
Work Demands
- Ability to travel to in-person meetings within Home Team regions required, about 2x/month minimum
- Occasional weekend or evening work is required.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
May 18 2019
Active Until:
Jun 18 2019
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit