ROLE TITLE: Senior Managing Director, Network Impact & Experiences (Full-Time)
POSITION REPORTS TO: Jennifer Howard, Executive Director
APPLICATION DEADLINE: The deadline is Friday, June 6, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET.
LOCATION: Living in the State of Ohio is required

WHAT YOU’LL DO
Teach For America Ohio seeks a Senior Managing Director, Network Impact & Experiences to set the direction and ensure the success of our statewide regional program, by designing and executing corps member learning, leadership, and community-building experiences from summer practicum throughout the 2-year corps experience, and school-based alumni educator programming. Your leadership and collaboration with colleagues across the organization will directly support our statewide talent ecosystem.

As an ideal candidate, you have demonstrated success leading and influencing colleagues within and across teams toward shared goals. Your current and past colleagues call you a dream collaborator. You’ve got a knack for helping people understand their unique role in a strategy and connecting them with one another. You can build a team culture that fosters collaboration and impact orientation. You’re also decisive. You consider the appropriate context, short- and long-term impacts, and who is most impacted by a decision, and know when to deliberate and when to move swiftly. You’re proud of your project management skills and can juggle several workstreams and teams at once. Finally, you are people-oriented and coaching-oriented, using every interaction as an opportunity to bring out the best in your colleagues.

Ultimately, this job will position you to advance learning and life opportunities for local students by ensuring that corps members and alumni educators are making a profound impact on student outcomes across the state. You will report to the Ohio Executive Director and closely partner with the Midwest Program Hub’s Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development. You will co-manage Managing Directors, Leadership Development around corps member support, and collaborate with the regional Managing Directors, Alumni Impact & Experiences, to ensure program cohesion across the state. You will work on initiatives with our statewide regional team and field fundraising staff to share pertinent program data with stakeholders. This is an Ohio-based role.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Regional Program Strategy and Execution (80%)

• Set and manage the vision and direction for our local corps program, using local context, our larger arc of member experience (applicant to alumni), and the organization-wide program model. You will do this in close collaboration with Managing Directors, Leadership Development, and our regional staff. You will lead and project manage this vision from matriculation and onboarding through Pre-Service (initial summer training), through the two-year corps commitment, to the transition to alumnihood. This includes answering the following questions and executing accordingly:

  • What kind of impact do we hope corps members will have on their schools and students in our region, specifically? How will we measure that? How will we support them with it? What kinds of additional professional and leadership development will we offer locally?

  • What should our Ohio corps member community feel like? How will staff support corps members to build that community? What kinds of community-building spaces will we offer locally?

  • What skills, knowledge, and mindsets will corps members build so they are prepared to lead for educational progress as alumni in our region? How will we help them develop?

• Serve as a co-manager of Managing Directors, Leadership Development, alongside a central team of the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development. In this co-management relationship, the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development, is responsible for “capabilities management” (helping MD, LDs execute our central program model), while you are responsible for “values management” (helping MD, LDs put that central program model in the context of our region).

• In collaboration with the Executive Director and other colleagues, assess the regional landscape and identify opportunities for TFA Ohio to increase its impact, and develop plans to leverage core organizational capabilities and resources (e.g., programming, alumni, strategic relationships, funding) toward new programs, initiatives and partnerships that address key educational needs in Ohio and Northern Kentucky.

• Ensure our school partnerships and corps program vision supports schools toward their student outcome goals.

• Oversee the visioning and execution of regional events that are aligned to goals, build regional corps and alumni culture, and strengthen TFA Ohio/NKY’s visibility.

• Make decisions on additional regional hiring for summer pre-service, conduct interviews, and ensure strong onboarding for candidates in addition to managing non-central pre-service roles for the duration of the summer training experience for corps members.

• Partner with our Matriculation Generalist to set the vision and direction for how incoming corps members will onboard to our region before their first summer training, including how we will support retention, community building, certification testing, and more.

• Oversee the visioning and execution of licensure support and compliance.

• Engage with our local education landscape through events, meetings with community partners, and staying plugged into the news. Use your learning and the connections you form to shape and support our local program.

Team Leadership and Regional Stewardship (20%)

• Serve as the regional point of contact for the corps member program to all TFA central team partners, field fundraisers, and our school and district partners.

• Contribute to a positive team culture that is focused on outcomes and growth, and is welcoming to all members such that every team member is able to bring all of their talents and expertise to bear in our shared work.

• Engage in team responsibilities to strengthen our collective work, including check-ins, team meetings, events, professional development, data management, interviewing applicants for Ignite and the corps, and matriculating new members.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE
Over the course of any week, the Senior Managing Director, Network Impact & Experiences will spend time:

• Meeting with Managing Directors, Leadership Development, and relevant members of the regional, recruitment, and corps member & alumni development teams to ensure our participants are making progress toward our local school’s student outcome goals and that our members are developing as life-long leaders for educational equity.

• Collaborating closely with the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development, who sits on the central team, to set vision and direction for our shared corps member program and collaborate on progress and MD, LD performance.

• Visiting schools to gather evidence of our contributions to schools and analyzing observations and a wealth of data to adjust our strategy accordingly.

• Drafting and executing project plans for big workstreams, including, but not limited to, Pre-Service (first year summer teacher training), corps culture, alumni educator programming, and school partner support.

• Hosting an evening webinar for incoming corps members, preparing them for their responsibilities and opportunities as corps members.

• Joining a recruitment team member at a local college campus to talk to prospects about our corps programs.

• Identifying and stewarding a pool of CMs and alumni who are “on deck” to engage with recruitment prospects or donors.

Note: While this person will have a great deal of autonomy to design their schedule through most of the year, our seven-week Pre-Service program during the summer has a regimented and rigorous schedule. During June & July in particular, this person should expect to be at schools from 8:00-4:30 PM Monday through Friday.

YOUR EXPERIENCE
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications):

• At least 10 years of relevant work experience, including teaching and instructional coaching

• Preferred 3+ years of management experience

• Strong instructional knowledge and an understanding of teacher development and coaching

• Strong knowledge of the Ohio education landscape

• Compelling communicator, and inspire others to action: experience collaborating across organizational & institutional boundaries to achieve outcomes

• Believer in the power of educators to disrupt systems that hold our students back from reaching their hopes and aspirations: able to lead in key spaces in crucial moments while always representing our core values

• Ability to develop data systems and analyze data to improve strategies and outcomes

• A project manager who can juggle many workstreams at the same time while keeping themselves and others on track to hit major milestones and achieve results

• Ability to work nights and/or weekends 2-3 times a quarter

• Ability to travel out of region for conferences 2-3 times a year

YOUR FUTURE TEAM
Teach For America Ohio/ NKY corps members reach nearly 6,000 students across the state. Additionally, over 1,000 alumni are working across all sectors to end educational inequity. Regional staff members work to train and support corps members, continually strengthen relationships with local schools and districts, foster the leadership of local alumni, and grow the regional funding base and community partnerships to guarantee that Teach For America Ohio can build a sustainable movement to reach the day when every child in the region has access to an excellent education. To realize this vision in our lifetime, we know that we must accelerate the impact of TFA’s network to work towards implementing and sustaining progress in education and other sectors that most shape the outcomes of our students. Our unique value add as Teach For America is to be the premier talent recruiters, matchers, and developers to our local community of fellow education leaders as we collaborate toward this vision.

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 starting salary range for this role is set forth below. This range may be modified in the future:

Salary Tier A (Ohio) - $108,900-$145,600

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