Managing Director, Educator Fellowships
Teach for America
ROLE TITLE: Managing Director, Educator Fellowship
POSITION REPORTS TO: Senior Managing Director, Educator Fellowships (Nikhita Navani)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: The deadline is Monday, June 23, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET
LOCATION: The Michigan team’s office is in Detroit. The role will require on-site work with educators in communities across Michigan 3-4 times per month, on average.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
TFA Detroit/Michigan (Det/MI) is seeking an education professional to support high quality coaching and learning experiences for over 100 educators in school leadership across the Sitting Leaders fellowships. This role is a strong fit for an education leader with a track record of strong results in a principal or assistant principal role and is looking for a high-growth opportunity in a program design/delivery space. This role will require a leader who is willing to build deep and authentic relationships with educators, commit to gaining necessary knowledge of the context they work in, and balance zooming in (being proximate) with zooming out (seeing the global view) to ensure high quality experience for sitting leaders.
WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Responsibilities for the Managing Director, Educator Fellowships Include:
30%: Oversee program delivery for a cohort of fellows in the Sitting Leaders fellowships, including:
Designing (as appropriate) and facilitating learning experiences in alignment with the Sitting Leaders program arcs and in service of topline goals
Delivering high quality professional development workshops in alignment with our Best Practices in Adult Learning
Conducting on site visits with educators across Michigan to deepen relationships, build context, and gather feedback
Maintaining a close pulse on educator experience, retention, and growth
30%: Execute a high impact coaching model designed to advance proficiency in key educator skills and practices, including:
Building and maintaining coaching infrastructure, including tracking fellow progress in each coaching cycle, scheduling coaching calls, and maintaining consistent communication with coaches
Coaching small groups of Sitting Leaders aligned to program arcs
Measuring growing proficiency of educators in alignment to goals
Recommending adjustments to program delivery, as needed
20%: Support the execution of our work focused on building strong model schools through developing collective efficacy in fellows within the same building. 20%: Contribute to enterprise level priorities throughout the year. Our team takes an “all hands on deck” approach to these events, requiring that each team member contribute capacity and time. These enterprise level priorities include:
Detroit Summer Learning Institute (June and July)
EmpowerEd Weekends (2x per year, October and April)
Fellow Selection (throughout the Spring)
Corps Member & Ignite Fellow selection (throughout the Fall and Spring)
A WEEK IN THE LIFE
Over the course of any week, the Managing Director, Educator Fellowships will spend time “zooming in” and building deep relationships with school leaders – through coaching conversations, site visits, or other engagements. They will also spend time zooming out to design, refine, and implement systems – whether building and testing a new coaching infrastructure; designing strong adult learning for an upcoming workshop; or working on building the collective efficacy on school teams through our model schools work.
YOUR EXPERIENCE
Competitive Candidates will have the following characteristics and experiences:
Previous Experience
At least 7 years of relevant experience working in schools that serve under resourced communities, with at least 4 years leading as a principal
Experience coaching school leaders in formal or informal settings. Formal coaching certification preferred but not required.
Track record of leading undefined, emerging and complex projects.
Experience delivering high quality adult learning spaces, ranging from large network level spaces to one-on-one classroom coaching.
Experience leading other adults in informal capacities.
Skills
Strong interpersonal skills and a proven ability to develop and steward relationships to bring people together into shared purpose.
Expertise in best practices for school leaders; can translate expertise into coaching and/or professional development sessions.
Ability to gather data (qualitative and quantitative) to inform perspective; deep desire and commitment to gain context on the environment and experiences of fellows.
Entrepreneurial mindset, willing to build, test and iterate the design of products and spaces, and solve problems with creative solutions.
Deep desire to learn and grow. Proactively solicits feedback and implements coaching into their work products and ways of operating.
Strong organization systems with an ability to track multiple moving pieces and ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner.
Exceptional attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality materials for external and educator audiences.
Ability to hold, lead and contribute to multiple projects at once, and ability to flex across altitudes, from individual coaching to system level challenges.
Would be described as a servant leader, who can lead by decentering self and investing into the growth and learning of others
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
TFA Det/MI is pursuing a ten year goal that by 2030, twice as many economically disadvantaged children in Michigan will reach key educational milestones indicating they are on a path to economic mobility and co-creating a future filled with possibility. Our goal calls for us to recruit and retain high impact educators across the state; develop them into system level leaders who can deliver for their students, schools and communities; and connect them with one another and broader coalitions to advance state and local policies, practices and innovations that drive toward greater equity and excellence.
In 2022, the State of Michigan invested $30 million to expand our educator recruitment and retention work statewide. Since then, our community has grown to over 500 educators impacting over 90,000 students. As directed by the Legislation, we will evaluate and report results to inform system level educator recruitment, development and retention efforts. Ultimately, we will be successful if we build a community of highly effective educators and leaders who inspire others to teach in Michigan, and who individually and collectively model and contribute to system change.
Among our educator community is a group of 200 educator leaders who serve in various capacities in their schools - as instructional coaches, department leads, SPED coordinators, deans, assistant principals and principals. The Leadership Continuum team, which includes the Aspiring Leader, Sitting Leader, and Systems Leader fellowships, is charged with delivering best in class leadership development aligned to our definition of High Impact Leader.
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 ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.
$90,000 - $120,300