Manager, Leadership Development - Term

Job Title: Manager, Leadership Development (M, LD) - (50%)

TEAM: National Team - Corps Member and Alumni Leadership Development (CMALD)

REPORTS TO: SMD, Leadership Development & Regional Point of Contact

LOCATION: Must be located in the St. Louis metropolitan area

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

As a Manager, Leadership Development (50%) you will coach a cohort of 10-12 corps members in St. Louis, MO to lead transformational classrooms, grounded in our universal program model and your region’s 2030 vision. Your work begins the moment these corps members join Teach For America, supporting their instructional growth, leadership development, and ability to navigate the broader school and community ecosystems.  

In collaboration with regional and national partners, you’ll drive impact through three core areas of responsibility:

• Teacher Leadership Coaching – Provide individualized, data-driven coaching to corps members that enhances their instructional skills and promotes both academic and social-emotional growth in students. Using tools like CLASS, student surveys, and achievement data, you'll help corps members reflect on their practice and build personalized learning plans that drive both student outcomes and leadership growth.

• School and Community Partnerships –Collaborate with school staff as needed to support corps members toward their learning and development goals.  

• Group Learning Experiences – Implement focused group learning opportunities, such as workshops and coaching milestone events, for your corps members. These experiences should strengthen corps member leadership, align with regional goals, and include clear learning outcomes, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous improvement based on feedback.

The ideal candidate is a strong relationship builder with leadership coaching experience, an impact-centered approach, and a systems-level understanding of the corps member ecosystem. You are skilled at managing multiple workstreams, using data to drive decisions, and working both collaboratively and independently toward bold outcomes for students and corps members alike.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE
Likely no two weeks in the M,LD role will look exactly the same!  As mentioned above, our program is characterized by key milestones over the two year commitment and the typical activities you will be engaging in will vary according to the season of the work and will overlap. As we begin to welcome our new CMs into our work (in the winter and spring), you could be spending your time talking to prospective CMs and stewarding their acceptance of their offers with TFA.  During this time of year, you will likely spend time gearing up for our pre-service training by designing CM learning experiences.  During the summer you’ll likely be onsite at one of our summer teaching practicum sites, observing lessons, coaching corps members, and collaborating with both TFA and external partners to ensure a successful summer experience for both students and CMs.  As the academic year gets into full swing, you’ll be meeting with school leaders and other partners, observing your CMs with CLASS, preparing for and executing coaching conversations and following up as needed. You’ll be engaging in meetings and collaborative work spaces with both members of CMLD and your region to prepare for and execute meaningful engagements for our CMs and other stakeholders throughout the year.  You’ll also spend time gathering, inputting/sharing, and analyzing data and completing administrative tasks to ensure the smooth functioning of our program.        

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

In this role, you will: 

• Provide individualized, data-driven coaching to corps members that enhances their instructional skills and promotes both academic and social-emotional growth in students, grounded in shared developmental trends, the universal program model, and the regional 2030 vision.

• Collaborate with school staff as part of our school partnerships strategy, ensuring clear communication and proactive problem-solving to enhance corps member development, increase retention, and drive student outcomes.

• Implement group learning experiences, such as workshops or milestone events, tailored to the needs of your corps members and aligned to regional and national priorities.

• Across all workstreams, operate with a deep internalization of our shared programmatic metrics and goals to guide your work, monitor progress towards outcomes, and evolve your actions as necessary to account for new information and/or current results.

• Serve as an “all hands on deck” team member to both CMLD and your regional team by adding capacity to projects and initiatives as they arise. 

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree

• 2+ years of relevant experience, with specific expertise in coaching and/or developing adults

• Willing to work flexible hours with some nights and weekends; willing to travel 1-2 times per year for conferences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience coaching and advising capable and competent leaders through complex challenges towards impact 

• A track record of getting results while managing multiple large-scale projects simultaneously

Skills & Orientations: 

• Deep investment in TFA’s mission and a commitment to live out our core values and our commitment to people, community, and opportunity for all

• Belief that there is a place for both standard and customized approaches to supporting CMs in service of both of universal program model and a region’s contextualized 2030 goal

• Ability to make meaning of multiple sources of data to inform strategic decision making and action planning at different levels (i.e. cohort, region, hub)

• High skill and orientation towards managing up; in our model, you will have a capabilities manager (SMD, LD) and colleagues that you will need to work closely with, it will be necessary for you to proactively engage each of them to support your development and impact in this role

• Have energy for/get joy from inquiry-based, leadership coaching (as opposed to more specific instructional coaching)

• Be able to connect the dots between the big picture and execution of operational tasks (e.g. data entry and tracking, supporting the follow-up to Americorps compliance needs, etc.)

• Strength in critical problem solving - you can strategize and plan at a high level with baseline information (templates/examples not needed) and bring in your colleagues and managers as thought-partners

• High willingness to both draw on your own experiences and adaptability to try new approaches

• Exceptional relationship builder with CMs, school leaders, and other external partners

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence

• Strong sense of self-awareness and understanding of strengths and areas for development

• Skilled in creating and upholding accountability practices to ensure cohort, regional, and enterprise success

• Skilled in conducting needs assessments, analyzing complex landscapes, and deriving a set of strategic levers to support prioritized needs

• Demonstrated ability to:

  • work with a level of autonomy, and make strategic decisions in varying and nuanced situations 

  • develop and cultivate effective relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders and support them in contributing to a shared goal

  • Listen, learn, and earn credibility with all constituencies, then decisively move forward to implement agreed-upon solutions 

  • manage multiple priorities, prioritize effectively, and alternate fluidly between thinking about the big picture and executing on specific strategies

THE TEAM

As a M, Leadership Development, you will be a member of both the Teach For America Program team and of the region(s) you support. The Program Team is responsible for defining the type of systems-change leadership required to reach “One Day” and how best to develop that leadership through the act of teaching. We provide, develop, and or connect people to resources and experiences of superior quality, relevance, and efficiency that empower and support regions in optimally developing leadership through the act of teaching in ways that can be adapted to their specific contexts. As a result, our teachers are more likely to feel part of a connected and thriving community, increasingly achieve meaningful and enduring impact, and commit to systems-change leadership in their work for educational equity.

YOUR COMPENSATION

The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Tier A (St. Louis): $61,300 - $80,500

NOTE: This is a part-time role. The expectation is an average of 20 hours per week or 40 hours every bi-week. We are listing here the annual compensation range if this was a full-time role.

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here.