Coach; Progressive

Management Center Job Opportunity

Note:

We are not currently actively screening new applicants for this position, but if you'd like to be considered in the event that we re-open a search, please submit your resume, and we'll let you know when we do.

The Management Center (TMC) is seeking an experienced manager to work with our clients - primarily executive directors and other senior managers of progressive advocacy organizations. You will lead coaching engagements and serve as a teacher / coach / trainer / nudge / confidante / advisor / thought-partner to client executives, with the aim of helping them build their teams into high performing organizations that deliver great results.

Ideal candidates won't be lifelong consultants or necessarily have any consulting experience her, we seek experienced senior managers (have held roles at senior levels of organizations, either as an executive director or second-in-command or as the head of a department) who have produced results and who have a passion for teaching other leaders from diverse backgrounds how to do the same.

Our mission is to help leaders working for social change build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations. Founded in 2006, we're now a 50-person, $11.5 million organization (and growing!). We have helped shape the practices of hundreds of influential organizations and thousands of individual managers, focusing in particular on leading progressive organizations working for social change. Our clients work on issues - like promoting immigration reform, fighting for racial, economic and gender justice, advocating for educational equity, and protecting voting rights - where they face an inherently uphill battle and so must fight more effectively than their opponents if they are going to win.

We aim to help them do that by making their organizations as effective as possible.

A great deal of our work involves direct coaching of clients, and we also offer publications and training to the broader field. Along the way, we have built a strong reputation: on our most recent anonymous survey, 95% of clients said they "Strongly Agree" (the top choice on a 7-point scale) that they would recommend TMC to a friend. Such positive word-of-mouth has created fairly explosive demand for our services that the new coach will help us meet.

Your job will be to instill the management practices that will help your nonprofit clients become high-performing organizations that deliver great results equitably and sustainably. You will work with CEOs and their senior teams to help them define ambitious goals; manage for execution; implement rigorous "people practices," including selecting and retaining a diverse team of the best talent and letting go of people who don't meet expectations;

and build cultures that reinforce high performance, constant improvement, and values like equity and transparency.

At any given time, you will lead roughly three to five intensive client engagements and several other less intensive relationships. Your work with clients might include:

• Observing them in action, diagnosing their needs, and designing the scope of our work with them;
• Delivering services to clients, including coaching senior executives one-on-one, designing new organization-wide systems, providing advice on challenges of the day, and conducting trainings for senior teams;
• Serving as the primary point of contact for clients and developing strong working relationships with them;
• In the most encouraging way possible, nudging client leaders to make sure they are following-up on their commitments; and
• Prioritizing across client needs to ensure we spend our energy wisely.

Beyond your work with clients, you will help build and grow TMC by collaborating with peers on team and organizational initiatives. You might develop new tools for all of our clients to use, identify better approaches for how we engage with clients, or help us come up with more effective ways to assess our progress.

You will report to one of our senior coaches, who will measure your success primarily by improvement in your clients' practices, client satisfaction, revenue generated, and contribution to our culture.

To be successful in this job, you will excel in four areas: