Senior Director, Program

Summary

Join Teaching Lab, a growing remote education non-profit, as a Senior Director, Program! This salaried, full-time position, ideally based in the Northeastern US, involves setting programmatic goals, developing strategies, and leading implementation to achieve excellent student outcomes. You will supervise a team, manage complex projects, and collaborate across departments. The role requires significant experience in educational programming, people management, and project leadership. A competitive salary ($125,000-$189,074 annually) is offered, along with opportunities for growth. Frequent travel is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience setting goals, creating the systems and processes for meeting the goals for educational programming
• Experience creating the strategy for a team or business function
• Track record of effective people management
• Ten (10) or more years of combined experience directing projects and leading teams
• Ten (10) or more years of combined experience planning and implementing projects
• Ten (10) or more years combined experience working with partners outside of their organization to manage workflow or deliver services
• Ten (10) or more years combined experience working in PK-12 education, with a minimum of two years experience teaching PK-12 students from traditionally underserved backgrounds with demonstrated evidence of impact
• Ten (10) or more years combined experience leading or coaching the implementation of HQIM (in any subject area)
• Deep knowledge and experience with College- and Career-Ready math or ELA content and practice standards
• Experience designing impactful professional learning for educators
• Experience facilitating impactful professional learning or coaching for educators
• Experience leading relationships with clients and stakeholders in an education context
• Experience teaching or coaching at least one of the following curricula: Math (Amplify Desmos, Carnegie Learning, Envision Mathematics, EngageNY/EurekaMath, Illustrative Math, Into Math, iReady, Savvas, Skyline, Zearn Math); Science (Amplify, OpenSciEd)
• Strong commitment to growth mindset for both adults and students, and a desire to work collaboratively to grow team skills and capabilities
• Compelling communication and influence skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build rapport quickly
• Strong organizational skills
• Reliable and consistently completes work in a timely manner with high quality

Responsibilities

• Support the development of Teaching Lab’s programmatic strategy and leadership of the programmatic division
• Help set and review programmatic goals and develop programmatic strategy with the CPO and other Senior Directors, Program
• Identify programmatic and partnership challenges and innovates solutions and new programming to improve teaching and learning and advance educational outcomes, in partnership with the CPO
• Implement excellent programmatic services
• Manage programmatic projects and team members to successfully meet meet the goals of the projects; projects include but are not limited to: professional learning content development projects, professional learning implementation with state and district systems, direct-to-teacher or direct-to-leader coaching, etc
• Act as a content area expert aligned with organizational needs, i.e., has some area of content expertise (like subject-area expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies curriculum and/or instructional expertise, or general expertise in coaching for continuous improvement or state/system level leadership development, etc.) that they bring to bear on aligned projects as well as support team members to build their content expertise
• Often hold the role of a Project Lead or Project Sponsor on project teams, responsible for ensuring project success and sustainability. However, given time, capacity, competencies, skills, and interests, the Senior Director, Program could hold multiple other roles on project teams (e.g., Coach Developer, Client Partnership Manager, Instructional Designer, Subject Matter Expert, Coach/Facilitator, etc.)
• Help shape the program for each partner aligned with the partner’s goals
• Build, and continuously update knowledge of Teaching Lab’s programming and services, in order to knowledgeably suggest adaptations and customizations
• Develop a deep understanding of partner enabling conditions and needs to inform programmatic implementation plans
• Act as an external champion of Teaching Lab with key stakeholders
• Support team members to and/or directly maintain and renew contracts with clients, especially large and complex projects, to sustain impact on teacher and student learning; support business development as needed
• Design high-quality, research-based, user-centered professional learning content, services, and tools/resources
• Identify key areas where Teaching Lab should create materials and content for programmatic partnerships and courses
• Engage in or manage Teaching Lab’s user-centered design processes (engaging with Teacher Advisory Board, supporting pilot partnerships, developing rapid prototypes) and use learning and insights to inform design
• Engage in or manage Teaching Lab’s design process to develop content, including drafting, feedback cycles, pilot partnerships (as applicable), and finalization steps (e.g., adhere to Teaching Lab’s style and branding guidelines when developing new content)
• Support team members or directly apply best practices for virtual and in-person adult learning in the design of professional learning content
• Engage in efficient and effective project management as a Project Lead or Project Sponsor
• Lead team members to implement the project plans for assigned projects; if needed, identify needs for consultant support to complete projects on time and with high quality; supervise consultants
• Manage partner project plans that track the execution of services related to scopes of work, and support other team members to maintain individual partner project plans for each project
• Model strong organizational skills, time management, and workflow management while attending to the diverse needs of partners and keeping a radically responsive orientation
• Develop and innovate systems, tools, and processes to support effective and efficient implementation of services to scale Teaching Lab’s partnerships and impact over time
• Support team members to and/or directly maintain contracts and invoices for each partner; collaborate with other team members and the Finance department to ensure accurate invoices are billed and collected
• If applicable, provide vision, direction, and oversight of direct reports as a Home Manager
• Model the people manager-specific competency and implement actions that support a positive work culture and increase productivity (e.g., providing feedback, coaching, counseling, training, development, etc.)
• Provide coaching and support to direct reports on their projects and/or assignments, including identifying and addressing development needs and supports
• Monitor workloads and capacity to ensure effectiveness and productivity while promoting time management and prioritization of assignments
• Provide frequent values-based feedback and recognition to direct reports
• Ensure the successful completion of direct reports’ annual goals as well as those of their direct reports
• Conduct annual evaluations for direct reports
• Complete internal tasks related to people management in a timely manner
• Hire for open Program department roles
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration
• Collaborate with other functions to create and innovate on systems, strategies, tools, and processes to increase the effectiveness of the project-based work team structure and overall programmatic success
• Manage and collaborate with other Program Team members to continuously refine and develop high-quality professional learning content and implement professional learning
• Manage and develop Teaching Lab team members to identify and engage new and existing school system partners on scopes of work that improve outcomes for teachers and students
• Support team members to collaborate with and directly collaborate with the Learning & Research department to adapt and improve Teaching Lab’s high-quality data collection and impact evaluation processes
• Engage in continuous learning
• Stay abreast and lead others in learning key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies in project management, client management, coaching, and adult facilitation
• Engage in personal and organized learning opportunities as a team member at a values-based and mission-focused organization
• Create and deliver training to other team members on core skills or competencies within the Senior Director, Program role which is also transferable and critical for other roles
• Perform other duties as assigned by Program department leadership and/or Executive Team

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree
• Experience providing professional learning support and services in and for consultative organizations

Benefits

$125,000 - $189,074 annually