ROLE TITLE: Senior Managing Director, Strategy, Talent & Operations (Full time)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Executive DIrector - Houston Region

PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 8, 2024

LOCATION: Texas (Austin, DFW, Houston, RGV, or San Antonio preferred)

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Senior Managing Director, Strategy, Talent & Operations (SMD, STO) is charged with driving the efficiency and effectiveness of our Texas Executive Team, fueling the engagement, collaboration, and development of Team Texas, and leading critical special projects that fuel progress toward our 10-year goal and educational equity in Texas. The combination of these efforts will allow us to continue to grow and strengthen the corps and Ignite fellows in Texas, engage and activate our alumni, and put Teach For America in the best position to meet our partners’ demand for our teachers and leaders across our community.

The SMD, STO role is a senior leader on the Texas team and serves on the Texas Executive Team. In this role you will work closely with the Texas Executive Directors, Vice President of Public Affairs, and teammates across Team Texas. To be an ideal candidate for this role, you deeply value the students and community we serve and are passionate about realizing educational equity in Texas. You are able to navigate complex systems to drive priorities forward, love and have strong project management skills and enjoy working collaboratively across multiple internal and external teams to achieve your vision and impact. You are comfortable with ambiguity and are a self-starter who operates with minimal oversight. Finally you have the capacity to be responsive and take swift action as we identify and address new opportunities and challenges.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Lead the Strategy, Talent, and Operations for all Statewide Initiatives in Texas - 30%

• Manage the process, resources, and communications necessary to develop clear annual plans and corresponding budgets, and quarterly priorities for Team Texas and the Texas Executive Team.

• Drive the collaboration of the Texas Executive team in pursuit of our annual priorities including generating agendas for, facilitating, and tracking follow-up from Texas Exec quarterly retreats, monthly meetings, and weekly tactical meetings.

• Provide the Texas Executive Team with a regular synthesis of progress toward top-line goals.

• Collaborate with the Program Impact, Learning, and Evaluation team and the Texas Director of Data to ensure we have a strong plan for monitoring progress toward our 2030 goals in each region and in-year targets.

• Collaborate with our VP, Public Affairs,, the Senior Managing Director of Recruitment, our Senior Managing Directors of Leadership Development, and others to move statewide priorities forward.

• Act as the go-to person for all finance, risk, operations, people team initiatives for the Texas Executive Team.

• Manage a team of people who support Team Texas’ work.

Build a Thriving Team Texas CultureTeam Texas Support - 30%

• In partnership with the Executive Directors, develop, monitor, and maintain the vision and strategy for Team Texas culture and collaboration.

• Support managers to ensure we exhibit gold-standard talent management practices with regards to team management and development, retention monitoring, succession planning, and talent recruitment, including the strong execution of Elevate.

• Plan and execute all Team Texas meetings, celebrations, and communications, including regular progress to goal updates, professional development offerings, and DEI learning experiences.

• Act as a liaison to our National Human Assets team to support staff in accessing information regarding benefits, compensation, and employee policies.

Lead Cross-Functional Team Workstreams- 30%

These workstreams will shift according to the needs of Team Texas but in the next year will include:

• In partnership with the Executive Director, support the partnerships and programmatic launch of a corps in Austin.

• In partnership with the Senior Managing Director of Recruitment, launch and support the ongoing collaboration of a Recruitment Hub that includes Texas and Oklahoma.

• In partnership with the Vice President of Public Affairs, support the operations of Legislative Sessions strategies such as statewide Board Meetings, Board Member visits to the Capitol, etc.

• Independently manage systems and projects around additional in-the-moment priorities.

Ongoing Responsibilities- 10%

• Participate in corps members and alumni activities across the continuum including but not limited to corps member selection or matriculation, pre-service, alumni campaigns, ongoing AmeriCorps data collection and tracking, etc.

• Leverage regional and national resources (e.g. weekly newsletters, daily gift reports, etc.) and participate in statewide, regional and national committees/working groups/project teams

• Prepare for and engage in ongoing check-ins, team meetings, and professional development structures

• Serve as an “all hands on deck” team member willing to support regions in various ways as needs and opportunities arise, which embodies the spirit of the TFA Texas team.

• Occasional weekend or evening work hours required

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

Over the course of any week, the SMD, Strategy, Talent, and Operations will spend time:

• Sending Team Texas a weekly update with major events on the horizon, milestones to celebrate, and opportunities to learn and grow.

• Leading the Texas Execs Monday tactical meeting and ensuring follow-through on next steps.

• Planning an upcoming Team Texas meeting, and determining how you will engage the various leaders across Team Texas and the capabilities teams to ensure Texas Execs meet their intended outcomes..

• Meeting with the Director, Data for Texas to collaborate on a Team Texas Progress-to- 2030 Goal update to be shared as pre-work for an upcoming Team Texas meeting

• Supporting a Texas ED in updating a job description for a role on their team and working with HA to post the role and develop a hiring scope and sequence.

• Reviewing recent staff survey data, synthesizing trends, and developing possible solutions for the Texas Exec team to provide input on..

• Meeting with the VP, Public Affairs for Texas to discuss an upcoming set of meetings with Texas legislators and sharing your plan for the TFA hosted legislative breakfast that kicks off the two-day visit.

• Participating in a meeting with a school district and taking next steps to establish the contract for corps member placement.

• Leading a corps member hiring meeting with a district and following-up directly with corps members about their hiring process and next steps.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

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

• You know the students and community we serve and are passionate about realizing educational equity in Texas.

• You have expertise managing multiple projects at once and working collaboratively across multiple internal and external teams to achieve your vision and impact.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are a self-starter who operates with minimal oversight.

• You are detail oriented and excel at translating your passion for our mission into operational systems and communications strategies that compel diverse stakeholders.

• Teach For America experience (staff or corps) and/or public education experience

• 7-10 years of aligned work experience

• Bachelor’s degree required

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Teach For America’s superpower is finding, developing and supporting exceptional and diverse leaders, individually and in teams, so they can transform education and expand opportunities for children, starting in the classroom. In 1991, we began our work in Texas with 200 first year teachers; today, our network has grown to nearly 4,750 leaders, with over 2,600 leading in the K-12 system.

As part of Team Texas, you will be alongside 40 other colleagues who are working to expand opportunities for children in Texas, especially in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio.

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 range for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Tier A: $113,000 - $145,600

Tier B: $123,000 - $158,600

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. If your location is not listed, please click here for additional total rewards information.