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Director, Teacher Leadership Development

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Washington, D.C., USA
Full-time

We seek to hire a Director, Teacher Leadership Development to lead regional efforts to ensure that the students in corps members’ classrooms are academically prepared for a life of choice and equity and that our corps members are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to become lifelong advocates for educational equity. 

As a Director on our team, you will contribute to and advance our team’s work by co-setting and executing a vision for culture and staff development within the Teacher Leadership Development Team and our region; managing two teacher coaches (Managers of Teacher Leadership Development or MTLDs); and designing and leading professional development for corps members and alumni that result in improved student outcomes and strong corps member retention and culture. This position is a part of the D.C. Region Talent Hub team and would serve on the Talent Hub Leadership Team (HubLT) to ensure a continuum of supports are provided to teachers from their onboarding to the region through alumnihood. 

This position offers a unique opportunity for leaders with a strong track record in effectively leading diverse teams, solid pedagogical knowledge, and coaching expertise, and achieving ambitious results.

Areas of Responsibility: 

Accelerate and Advance the Talent Hub Team’s Efforts Toward Transformational Change (70%)

  • Set vision, design, and implement a scope of learning for teacher coaches (Managers of Teacher Leadership Development or MTLDs) to achieve impact with corps members by developing a coaching strategy that’s anchored in culturally responsive pedagogy, TFA’s Theory of Leadership, and in building relationships with school leaders to leverage our unique cohort model  as well as internal and external partnerships (alumni and content specialists)
  • Design and execute corps member and alumni teacher learning and development that incorporates TFA’s Theory of Leadership, culturally responsive pedagogy (including instructional practices and diversity, equity, and inclusiveness practices), and is reflective of the collaboration with programming partners (regional, national, external organizations)
  • Design professional development cycles led internally (by MTLDs) and define success metrics that reflect corps member investment, learning, effectiveness, and student outcomes
  • Cultivate a keen awareness of trends and underlying causes of knowledge, mindset, or skills strengths and gaps in corps member and MTLD performance through strong data collection, including regular school visits to corps member and MTLD observations
  • Co-create and collaboratively execute corps member culture and retention strategies through experiences and interventions that strengthen their ability to impact students and commit to people and place (TFA DC-region)
  • Partner with HubLT to co-plan and execute programmatic events and projects including all corps member events such as corps member Induction, start of school professional development, quarterly sessions, intersessions, and Institute partnership management
  • Cultivate strong relationships with national team partners to support corps culture and staff development, including the Org-Wide Learning team, national Institute partners, and the Collective Leadership & Engagement team

Talent Hub Team Leadership (20%)

  • Serve as a key member of the Talent Hub leadership team by engaging in cross-collaboration and decision-making, and by monitoring progress to goal, team-wide project execution, and team culture
  • Work closely with the Teacher Leadership Development sub-team to align on programmatic efforts and develop strong project management systems that will impact both corps member and alumni effectiveness and our ultimate goal of student achievement

Regional Team Responsibilities (10%)

  • Support, attend, and/or participate in regional team activities, including corps member selection and matriculation, corps member professional development events (4-5 per year in the evening), staff meetings, functional team meetings and retreats, and regional pre-service (one week in June)
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
Skills/Experience: 
  • A minimum of 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including leading adults who manage teams to achieve ambitious outcomes in a school/non-profit setting
  • Experience working in the D.C., Prince George’s County, and/ or Alexandria education landscape highly preferred
  • Teaching experience in K-12 setting required

Work Demands

  • This Director may travel independently to multiple school sites throughout a day that may be significant distances from one another, and navigating school facilities that may or may not be ADA-compliant
  • This role requires attendance at evening professional development or regional events several times quarterly
  • Additionally, the Director, Teacher Leadership Development should expect 1-2 weeklong overnight trips for conferences each year

To be successful in this role, you must:

  • Believe in our core values and regional vision, mission, and goals, and commit to striving to embody these values and to achieve these outcomes
  • Constantly seek to reflect on progress, learn, and improve; quickly act on individual reflections, feedback, and new information
  • Have demonstrated success in designing and implementing a learning scope and sequence around coaching, developing, and improving teacher leaders
  • Be adept at compiling and analyzing vast amounts of data to define opportunities and challenges, draw conclusions, and inform team management approach
  • Be able to build and leverage relationships and understand the perspectives of others, especially across lines of difference, to reach ambitious goals
  • Have strong planning and project management skills that set teams up for success
  • Have an understanding and deep belief in fostering culturally responsive educators
  • Develop strong peer and managerial relationships such that you can contribute to our team’s ability to hire, engage, develop, and retain a diverse and highly effective staff
  • In collaboration with Talent Hub team leadership, be able to establish ambitious / measurable goals and aligned strategy for the academic achievement of students, effective partnerships with districts and schools, and the instructional leadership development of corps members and staff members

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jun 27 2019
Active Until: 
Jul 27 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit