Posted on February 19, 2012

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Senior Managing Director, Bay Area Regional Team

We are seeking a Senior Managing Director of Oakland, Richmond, San Jose, AND San Francisco (SMD) to maximize Teach For America's impact both in the short and long-term to join and fuel a larger social justice effort in San Jose. Across the Bay Area, we aspire to build a movement of 600 teachers (corps members) and 2,200 alumni impacting over 100,000 students growing up in poverty by 2015. The SMD will collaborate with three other Senior Managing Directors (Oakland, San Jose, Richmond and San Francisco) to craft a compelling community vision, set local priorities, and partner with schools, community organizations and local leaders to forward the agenda in each city to close the achievement gap. He/she will be responsible for cultivating the leadership of corps members and alumni through strong professional development, community-based initiatives and trusting relationships. The SMD will inspire and motivate his/her team, while creating a culture of excellence, urgency and core value alignment - balancing our short-term work and longterm effort in the community.

The Senior Managing Director, Oakland/San Jose/Richmond/San Francisco reports to the Vice President of Regions.

Teach For America Bay Area

Founded in 1991, Teach For America - Bay Area has more than 400 corps members reaching over 30,000 students across the Bay Area in four sub-regions including Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as a local funding base of nearly $12 million. In 2012, the Bay Area team will be shifting our regional structure from one that is comprised of functional teams to one that is comprised of community focused teams - Team San Francisco, Team San Jose, Team Oakland and Team Richmond, while keeping our Operations & Development teams as our central enablers. This historic shift stems from our deep belief that in order to maximize our impact with students and families, we must work in partnership both with and within our communities. We will work alongside our nearly 1,700 alumni representing all sectors and more than 500 alumni who are currently working as teachers or school leaders in the fight to close the achievement gap in the Bay Area.

• Develop strong strategic plans with benchmarks and strategies in place to ensure cultures of excellence, rigor and student outcomes across over 150 classrooms
• Coach and develop Managers of Teacher Leadership & Development to ensure effectiveness in all classrooms

• Set the vision for matriculating, orienting and building a culture of excellence for over 75 incoming corps members to region
• Ensure accepted corps members matriculate into TFA, are hired at school sites, receive a strong orientation prior to the first day of school and receive ongoing professional development to ensure our overall success in the classroom
• Develop the leadership of our corps members as leaders and change agents in respective region
  
• Set the vision and goals for engaging, mobilizing and accelerating the leadership of over 250 alumni within education, policy, organizing and social entrepreneurship
• Establish relationships and partnerships with principal pipeline programs to build a base of school leaders in respective region
  
• Build relationships and develop communications with corps members, alumni and staff members across teams to build a strong, inclusive culture

• Create and communicate a vision for working in partnership with the community to end educational inequity
• Serve as the face and voice of Teach for America in respective region; deliver speeches and serve on content related panels in the region
• Work effectively with local media outlets and national communications team to elevate our presence in the region
• Build relationships and gain a deep knowledge of the political landscape to ensure Teach For America becomes part of the social and educational fabric of the region
• Cultivate existing relationships and establish new district and charter partnerships to place corps members and alumni leaders with an eye toward maximizing scale and sustainability
• Develop and evolve a strategy for growing our public financial support from district and charter partners

• Build a strong team; ensure direct reports are maximizing their individual potential and receiving explicit professional development both to maximize their skills on staff and as part of the community effort in Oakland, Richmond, San Jose, OR San Francisco
  
• Create a strong culture rooted in our core values and reflective of our commitment to diversity and inclusiveness
• Recruit, cultivate and hire the talent we need for staff positions in the specified region

• Engage with the Executive Director on the regional vision
• Work with leadership team to set annual goals that are in line with our strategic plan and core values
• Develop and execute on regional priorities
• Set the tone and culture for the region that models our core values

• Year 2: Build a local advisory board that will help us maximize our impact in the region. This includes seeking a diverse group of board members who have the influence and networks necessary to support the effort to reach our goals, ensuring we maximize each board member's potential contributions, and that the group as a whole is strong

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates deep commitment to and belief in Teach For America's mission, theory of change and core values
• Proven ability to set an inspiring vision and motivate others to reach ambitious goals in support of that vision
• Thrives in fast-paced environment
• Operates with a high level of personal responsibility and optimism
• Demonstrates sound judgment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds a successful team, including a pipeline of talented and diverse potential team members
• Coaches others and plays a role in their long-term development
• Demonstrated success managing individuals and teams to achieve ambitious goals
• Gets results by managing through others and across multiple layers of an organization
• Proven ability to build and leverage relationships
• Cultivates internal and external constituencies and builds long-term relationships to join and grow social justice movements

• Minimum of 5-7 years of work experience preferred
• Previous/current classroom or school leadership experience strongly preferred
• Experience managing business units or regional chapters strongly preferred
• Experience working in the Bay Area and/or currently living in the community required
• Bachelor's degree required

Benefits and Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.

Anti-Discrimination Policy and Commitment to Diversity

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial 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.

About Teach For America

Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.

At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, more than 9,000 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members began teaching in 43 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than three million students. Nearly 24,000 Teach For America alumni are working in education and many other fields, where they continue to advocate for students and families in low-income communities. While only one in six corps members was interested in the teaching profession before joining Teach For America, nearly two-thirds of its alumni remain in the field of education.

Teach For America's culture and work is grounded in and guided by a deep commitment to pursuing true transformational change for students growing up in low-income communities. It is a leadership development organization - committed to fostering staff members, corps members and alumni who establish a clear and bold vision for the future, set measurable and ambitious goals, work purposefully and strategically to achieve that vision, always operate with a deep sense of possibility and with perseverance, and define broadly what is within its control to solve. It is an organization committed to its people, to diversity and inclusion, and to operating with respect and humility toward the other important people and organizations working to advance the cause of educational excellence for all children.

90% of the students our corps members teach are African American and Latino and come from low-income backgrounds. Since the academic achievement gap in our country is largely drawn along lines of race and class, we know that it's particularly important to foster the leadership of individuals - at all levels - who share the racial and economic backgrounds of our students. Our staff is diverse and we are thrilled to have staff members representing all racial backgrounds working here. For more information about our commitment to diversity, visit: http://www.teachforamerica.org/our-organization/diversity

We are a high-growth, outcomes-oriented organization, with a $220 million budget and over 1,500 staff. In 2011 and 2012, we were named a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For. We operate in an entrepreneurial environment, maintain focus on quantitative measures, and are committed to continuous improvement.