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Teach For America

Managing Director, Pipelines –Apply by September 15 (Baltimore, MD)

The Role

Based on a deep understanding of the Baltimore and Maryland landscape, this leader sets a bold vision for filling and retaining a diverse pool of talent in the highest impact roles for Baltimore's students. The MD, Pipelines leads a team engaging in the recruitment, partnerships, and matching to reach ambitious talent goals. As the leader of this team, this individual will drive strategies for local corps member recruitment efforts, build benches of diverse talent for key school and district leadership roles, and engage in human capital sourcing and retention for alumni talent across the Baltimore and Maryland education and civic landscape. This leader coaches a team to grow in their individual roles and collectively to realize ambitious goals that have a profound impact for students growing up in Baltimore. He or she represents Teach For America Baltimore in key external relationships, partnerships, and coalitions. This role provides an opportunity to make significant contributions to the diversity and scale of leadership in critical roles across Baltimore and Maryland.

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The Team

Founded in 1992, Teach For America Baltimore has a corps and alumni base that is more than 1100 strong. Corps member and alumni teachers reach nearly 30,000 students in Baltimore area public schools. Our alumni work across multiple sectors – as principals, social entrepreneurs, and civic leaders to improve access and opportunities for all students in Baltimore. Regional staff members work to fill and retain leaders in the highest impact roles in education, support and develop the leadership of our corps members and alumni, and continually strengthen our network of local corps members and alumni to act together. We also work to expand the community relationships and funding base to ensure that Teach For America Baltimore can sustain and grow its impact.

Qualifications:

Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage a team toward a vision and specific goals for recruiting, placing, and retaining Teach For America corps members and alumni into roles that impact students, families, and Baltimore
  • Invest in the personal and professional growth of direct reports
  • Develop a clear and compelling strategy for realizing the potential of our base of 1100 to attain a range professional opportunities aligned to their strengths and passions and our potential for impact
  • Recruit and compel corps members and alumni to discover their greatest potential – whether it is staying in a current role or taking on the next opportunity
  • Match alumni to opportunities of impact in the region including Teach For America staff positions (regional & national)
  • Utilize and manage data management systems to accurately report and track alumni progress toward career goals, monitor levels of involvement with Teach For America, and make data-based decisions regarding strategic priorities
  • Build relationships with key external partners to build diverse pipelines, source talent, and expand opportunities for corps members and alumni in Baltimore
  • Sit on Teach For America Baltimore's Regional Leadership Team, driving regional culture, decision-making, and results

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a strong manager of people, projects, and teams; excellent at building relationships and partnerships with a range of constituents, organizations, and institutions; passionate about talent and matching; entrepreneurial; values- and mission-driven; and excels at thinking strategically and investing others in an ambitious plan.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree required

Prior Experience

  • Minimum 6-8 years professional work experience (team management, recruitment, relationship management)

Skills

  • Strong management experience and demonstrated results in leading a team
  • Strong aptitude for talent recruitment, management, and development
  • Excellent ability to build and cultivate external relationships with a range of stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to set a bold vision for maximizing opportunities and overcoming barriers
  • Embodies our core values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness
  • Superb interpersonal and talent identification skills, as well as a proven ability to develop and leverage relationships toward achievement of concrete goals
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills
  • Belief in the critical role of diversity in Teach For America's broader mission
  • Strong ability to motivate and influence people and teams and able to bring joy
  • Preferred: Knowledge of our local school district, state, corps member, and alumni landscapes

Apply Now

To be considered for this role, you must submit an online application. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the link to the online application.

About the Organization

There are more than 16 million children growing up in poverty in the U.S., and less than 10 percent of them will graduate from college. These statistics are not a reflection of our children's potential; we know that children growing up in poverty can and do achieve at the highest levels. Rather, these statistics reflect the systemic lack of access and opportunity for children in low-income communities.

Teach For America (TFA) finds, develops, and supports an ever-expanding network of outstanding and diverse leaders committed to expanding opportunity for children in schools, school systems, and in every sector and field that shapes the context in which schools operate. Representing the diversity of America and sharing the experience of having taught successfully in our most challenging public schools, TFA corps members and alumni form a network of change agents inside and outside of education who are grounded in the tremendous potential of our most underserved children and connected to families and communities impacted by educational inequity.

Founded by Wendy Kopp in 1989, Teach For America has since expanded to 36 states and 53 regions, reaching more than 10 million students. Now 53,000 strong and growing each year, the TFA community is leading across all sectors, including as teachers, school and school system leaders, elected officials, policy and advocacy organizers, social entrepreneurs, and business and civic leaders. We support the individual and collective leadership of this network as they work hand-in-hand with students, families, and allies in the effort to realize educational equity and excellence for children across the nation.

Our Core Values

Our core values define who we are at our best and guide our work together.

  • Pursue Equity: We work to change practices, structures, and policies to realize educational equity for all children. As we do so, we actively examine our roles in perpetuating inequitable systems.
  • Strengthen Community: We assume responsibility for our collective strength by developing relationships, building diverse and inclusive coalitions, and challenging one another to be our best. We act with empathy and extend grace to ourselves and others.
  • Achieve Impact: We pursue ambitious, meaningful outcomes that lead to access and opportunity for all children. We hold ourselves to high standards, make data-informed decisions, and orient to long-term success.
  • Choose Courage: We act on our beliefs and values, especially when it's hard. We center our efforts on the aspirations of our students and their families.
  • Act with Humility: We acknowledge the limitations of our perspectives. We seek different points of view and historical context to evolve our thinking and actions.
  • Demonstrate Resilience: We see every challenge as an opportunity to think expansively about solutions. When faced with obstacles, we deepen our resolve, adapt, and persist with optimism.
  • Learn Continuously: We operate with curiosity and embrace new ideas to innovate and constantly improve. We take informed risks and learn from successes, setbacks, and each other.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness at the Center of Our Mission

At Teach For America, we aspire to embody the commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness we envision for our nation. Unequal access to opportunity along lines of race, class, and other aspects of identity has deep roots in American history, and institutional racism and classism contribute to inequitable access to educational opportunity in our country today. Therefore, understanding race, class, and the intersectional nature of oppression along these and other lines is critical to eliminating educational inequity and creating an education system in which all students can flourish.

Realizing educational equity and excellence will take a broad and diverse coalition of people—of diverse races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, political views, and other aspects of identity and spheres of influence—united around a common purpose and shared values. We know that the change effort must be shaped by those of us who are most directly impacted by educational inequity. We also know that progress is only possible if each of us works effectively across lines of difference—with students, parents, partners, and each other—and if each of us understands and leverages the assets we bring to this work based on our identities and life experiences.

This understanding guides our strategy as we pursue our mission, and impacts how we allocate resources to recruit, select, train, support, retain, and engage corps members, alumni, and staff. In all we do, we act on the following beliefs.

→ Diversity is crucial for successful change efforts and is one of Teach For America's greatest strengths.

→ The full potential of our diverse network will be reached only when we are an inclusive community.

→ The predictability of success or failure for our students or individuals in our organization should not correlate with any social, cultural or other identity-based factors.

In striving to grow as individuals who lead with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusiveness, we focus on:

  • Understanding of self and self in relation to others. We examine our worldview and experiences to understand how they're influenced by power, privilege, oppression, and biases. As we deepen our understanding of self in relation to others, we seek out diverse perspectives and experiences to challenge our assumptions and expand our perspectives.
  • Understanding and interrupting systemic racism, classism, and other forms of oppression. We understand that our society and education system have been shaped by multiple forms of oppression, in particular racism and classism. We understand the role and impact of unconscious bias in establishing low expectations for children's capabilities, and we also see this play out in the workplace. Therefore, we commit to work together `to envision and implement new ways of operating that disrupt these systems and practices.
  • Working toward equity. We leverage this understanding to surface and interrupt inequitable practices in our schools as well as within our organization. In classrooms, we are committed to ensuring all students have the necessary resources, supports, and academic preparation they need to ensure full agency in their lives. In our organization, we're committed to allocating our resources and setting organizational policies, systems, and practices to reduce and eliminate gaps in experience and outcomes by demographic group.
  • Building inclusive coalitions. We recruit and retain a corps and staff that reflects the inclusive coalition we need representing our nation. Simultaneously, we ensure those of us who have faced educational inequity shape our direction. We intentionally build authentic relationships across lines of difference; facilitate honest and productive conflict among diverse groups; create structures, policies, and processes that enable this effort; and value the diversity of ideas and perspectives required in this effort.

Benefits and Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included. Learn more at www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/employee-benefits.

Commitment to Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Teach For America encourages individuals of all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort. Learn more about our diversity on staff: www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/life-at-tfa/workforce-diversity-and-inclusiveness.

Teach For America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

This job description reflects Teach For America's assignment of essential functions and qualifications of the role. Nothing in this herein restricts management's right to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.

Job ID: dbf2564e308ba8f502b7a30c2c1eec33
Employment Type: Other

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