National Director of Leader Development

National Director Of Leader Development

At IDEA, we believe excellent school leaders are the key to ensuring scholars receive a world-class education. Driven by this belief, in this role, you will partner with regional and national teams to develop launching school leaders so that every new IDEA school has a successful launch and achieves strong outcomes for students in their first year. In addition, you will provide leadership coaching for new and aspiring principals in high-need regions and regions without their own leadership coach to ensure that school leaders in all IDEA regions have access to the coaching they need to be successful in their roles.

This role does not directly manage school leaders or any other staff.

National role:
This is a full-time hybrid (remote/on-site) position based in Texas, with preference given to candidates who live in Austin, El Paso, Houston, Permian Basin (Midland/Odessa), Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, and Tarrant County (Fort Worth), or who are willing to relocate.

Travel to campuses and across regions is required; candidates must be willing and able to travel across regions at least twice a month.

Essential Duties:

· Lead the Rhodes Fellowship Program to provide high-quality training, coaching and resources for new launching principals and launching Assistant Principals of Operations (APOs).

· Design Rhodes training content in partnership with subject matter experts, especially those on the Operations team and facilitate virtual trainings for launching principals and APOs. Partner with regional leaders to provide follow up coaching and feedback for Rhodes participants to ensure they successfully apply training content and are on track for a successful school launch.

· Partner with regional leaders to provide coaching and support as needed for launching principals in their first year.

· Partner with the VP of Schools to provide high-quality leader coaching for new and/or high-priority principals in portfolio regions; portfolio regions will be decided in partnership with national Schools Team leaders, and priority will be given to high-need regions and regions without a regional Director of Leader Development.

· Coach a portfolio of aspiring principals enrolled in Cadre of Aspiring Principals (CAP) and/or Successor Principal Academy (SPA) to ensure regions without a regional DLD have a consistent pipeline of internal leaders ready to fill principal vacancies.

· Hold regular partnership meetings and maintain ongoing communication with regional leaders in portfolio regions to ensure alignment on coaching priorities for portfolio leaders.

Additional

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Support or lead the design and facilitation of professional development for portfolio leaders.

· Support regional leaders to develop coaching plans for school leaders.

· Track and respond to data to improve outcomes for portfolio leaders and their schools.

· Build strong relationships with regional leaders and school leaders in portfolio.

· Collaborate and share resources with other regional and national team members.

· Facilitate other nationally designed trainings if requested, such as Org Priority trainings, Staff Experience sessions, and trainings for regional coaches.

Knowledge and Skills
- Competencies:

· Build a Culture of Trust:
This team member fosters a team culture where individuals genuinely care for one another both personally and professionally. They lead with transparency, encourage open communication, including healthy conflict—and promote reliability and consistency, while regularly seeking and responding to team feedback to enhance the collective experience.

· Communicate Deliberately:
This team member communicates a clear and compelling vision that aligns team efforts with organizational goals. They proactively identify and address communication gaps across work streams, implementing solutions to enhance coordination, while anticipating and resolving stakeholder concerns before they surface.

· Grow Self and Others:
This team member identifies development needs across multiple groups and integrates them into broader strategic plans. They create structures that support ongoing growth,…