SMD, Partnerships & Network Learning

SMD, Partnerships and Network Learning Team:
Teach For America Metro Atlanta

Metro Atlanta

Executive Director

November 23 11:59P. Applications received after the deadline will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Teach For America (TFA) is a diverse network of leaders who confront educational inequity through teaching, and work with unwavering commitment to create a more equitable future. TFA Metro Atlanta serves as a vital force in the educational landscape of the Atlanta metro area, striving to provide every child with access to an excellent education. We recruit and develop a diverse corps of outstanding leaders to commit two years to teach in high-need schools, working to ensure all students have the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Teach For America Metro Atlanta seeks a driven leader to serve as the Senior Managing Director of Partnerships and Network Learning in the Metro Atlanta region. In this role, you will set the vision and strategy for key partnerships to support the growth of our corps members, including our school/district partners, our certification partners, and other partnerships within our education ecosystem to advance our work towards our 2030 goal of doubling 3rd grade reading and 8th grade math outcomes.

In addition, you will lead design and execution of our corps member learning experiences in the region, including design of our pre-service/practicum program, crafting an arc of learning that aligns to national programming, and creating a vision for and supporting execution of coaching, in-person group learning experiences and community-building. As the primary regional point of contact (RPOC) to our Upper/Lower South Program Hub, you will partner closely with the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development (SMD,LD) to co-manage our corps member coaches—Managing Directors of Leadership Development (MD,LDs)—to execute our school partnership strategy, serving as a key thought-partner with local context to support problem-solving.

You will also partner with them on the arc of corps member learning, leveraging their talents and skills in strategy, design, and execution. The SMD, Partnerships and Network Learning co-manages the Metro Atlanta-based MD,LDs, the MD, Program Continuum as well part-time staff associated with our pre-service and practicum program.

• Set the vision for how our MD, LDs will partner with district and school partners with an eye towards moving school partners to stronger levels of partnership, rooted in greater conditions for student and teacher success, over time
• Ensure all corps members are on a path to meeting certification expectations by managing relationships with certification partners (Relay, WGU, GSU, KSU, Metro RESA, District-Based) and ensuring that all MD, LDs are effectively ensuring CMs enroll in and complete their programming.
• Identify and activate additional education ecosystem partnerships that can drive academic improvement in our schools to advance our 2030 goal.
• Serve as the regional contact for our school partners involved in the Ignite Tutoring Fellowship. This is relationship management with partners and supports the MD, Ignite Program Impact with local connection.
• Serve as the internal liaison with the national Corps Member and Alumni Leadership Development Team (CMALD), working with the SMD, LD to build coherence between the standard corps member program model and the Metro Atlanta region.
• Build structures and an arc of engagement for how TFA Metro Atlanta shows up to support our field team in the field, and how we are supporting the growth of these…