NEA Fellowship Manager
I. Overview of Teach Plus and the NEA/Teach Plus Fellowships
A growing organization founded in 2009, Teach Plus's mission is to improve the achievement of urban children by ensuring that a greater proportion of students have access to excellent, experienced teachers. Teach Plus aims to give effective teachers a reason to stay in the classroom by putting teacher leaders at the center of reform. The organization runs multiple programs: the Teaching Policy Fellows Program, the NEA/Teach Plus Fellowships, C2: Common Core Collaborative, and T3: Turnaround Teacher Teams. Teach Plus focuses on demonstrably effective teachers in the second stage of their careers (typically years 3 through 10) who want to continue classroom teaching, while expanding their impact as leaders in their schools, in their unions, and in state and district policy.
Teach Plus focuses on leadership opportunities that allow teachers to make an impact across several issue areas:
· Evaluation. Effective teachers are key to student success, but schools often have not placed sufficient emphasis on teacher quality. Teach Plus works to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers access feedback on their practice and their students' growth. Additionally, the organization seeks to help the profession transition from a seniority driven to performance driven system through supportive, rigorous evaluations.
· Assessment. Many current student assessments do not give teachers what they need to improve student learning. Teach Plus works to capture and elevate teacher perspectives on the types of assessments they find useful so that the next generation of assessments will be meaningful for teachers, students, schools, and families.
· Common Core. Higher standards are critical for student success. The organization engages teachers as leaders in the transition to the Common Core in order to ensure its successful implementation.
· Next-Generation Unionism. With key demographic changes in the teaching profession, it is important for unions to find new ways to engage the high-performing, early-to-mid career teachers who have the potential to be future union leaders. Teach Plus's goal is to work in partnership with teachers and union leaders to prove that being union-involved and advocating for a profession that values performance and innovation are fully compatible.
· Access. Low-income and minority students are often assigned inexperienced and ineffective teachers at more than double the rate of their counterparts. Teach Plus' goal is to close the opportunity gap by creating incentives and cohort based programming for excellent teachers to work where they are needed most.
II. Position Responsibilities
Teach Plus seeks an outstanding professional to help lead a select number of Teach Plus/NEA fellowships at both the local and state affiliate levels. Reporting to the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, the individual will have leadership responsibilities for establishing and facilitating 3-5 Teach Plus/NEA fellowships (comprised of 10 teachers each) in districts and states to be determined by a rigorous selection process.
The local and state affiliate fellowships come out of the highly successful launch of the Teach Plus/NEA national fellowship in 2013. The purpose of the local/ state fellowships is to support teachers who want to bring about improvements in their district and union by providing them:
Training in policy, communications and advocacy;
Customized support for the team in reaching its goal for advancing change;
Dedicated time over the course of the school year to work on the issue with colleagues.
Specifically, the successful candidate will work jointly with the Executive Director and NEA to identify optimal locations for the local and state affiliate fellowships, recruit highly effective and union-engaged teachers to be part of the fellowship, devise appropriate strategies for policy-specific impact, integrate appropriate curriculum into the fellowship, establish strong partnerships with pertinent leaders and policy-makers, and drive towards successful adoption of chosen policy priorities. The successful candidate will join a group of proven union leaders at Teach Plus and will have the opportunity to collaborate with Teach Plus staff located across six locations in the U.S., as well as with leaders in the NEA.
Responsibilities of the successful candidate will include, but are not limited to:
Determining optimal local/state affiliates for fellowship (in conjunction with NEA)
The successful candidate will play a critical role in determining which local and state affiliates present the highest potential for policy impact and engagement of early career teachers.
· Jointly establishing criteria for site selection with particular focus on local/state conditions and opportunities
· Selecting a limited number of sites for participation in the Teach Plus/NEA fellowship
· Tap into existing relationships in NEA to assess site readiness and market the fellowship.
Recruiting high potential teachers for selected fellowships
Throughout the selected sites, the successful candidate will co-lead recruitment for the selected fellowships through identification of high potential teacher leaders engaged in their unions.
· Identify high potential teacher leaders with particular interest in policies related to teacher quality and/or compensation, as well as engagement of early career teachers
· Support the development of site-based teacher teams for submission of applications
· Jointly with the NEA select the chosen fellowship teams and sites.
Leading the fellowship cohorts on an ongoing basis and drive towards measurable impact in each fellowship
· Co-manage delivery of curriculum for fellowship;
· Co-develop with fellowship cohort a measurable impact action plan
· Act as an interface between Teach Plus and local/state union partners
· Coordinate monthly meetings of the cohorts and any additional extra meetings and communication (3-5 meetings, 1 per local/state cohort)
· Support teacher fellows in implementation of the action plan
· Support the local cohorts in developing a broader community of teachers at the local level by building high value opportunities related to the change agent topic
· Devise innovative ways to elevate the work of the fellowship teams at both the state and national levels.
III. Qualifications and qualities
The ideal candidate will have proven teaching effectiveness, substantial leadership experience in his/her local and/or state union, familiarity with the local and state education policy landscape, developed relationships with key policy makers, and a passion for working with teachers in elevating the teaching profession and improving student outcomes.
Specifically, candidates will possess the following qualities and qualifications:
· More than three years of classroom teaching experience in public K-12 schools and demonstrated effectiveness as a teacher
· Experience in a union leaderships role- either at the school site level or local/state union level
· Experience with and understanding of education policy issues- particularly related to teacher quality/evaluation and/or compensation
· Experience delivering high quality learning to adults as well as the ability to provide mentoring to Teach Plus/NEA fellows;
· Political skills and grit to persevere in achieving policy change in a challenging environment- with particular focus on ability to develop/leverage relationships with key policy makers
· Strong project management skills and the initiative to conceive of and complete tasks independently;
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to make interpretations of the political landscape;
· Comfort working in an entrepreneurial environment and the willingness to contribute as needed to a growing organization;
· A results-oriented, goal-driven, teamwork approach to work;
· Ability to travel an average of 30% of time
· A passionate commitment to improving public education through constructive engagement of diverse partners;
· Excellent written and oral communication skills.
· The ability to work collaboratively within a high functioning team as well as give and receive constructive feedback
· The ability to establish strong relationships between Teach Plus, state union leaders, NEA leaders, other national educational organizations as needed to support the cohort work
IV. Location: The location is flexible. Ideally applicants would be based in one of our six cities; LA, Chicago, Memphis, Boston, Indianapolis or Washington, D.C. This role requires an average of 30% travel.
V. Start Date: Late 2014 or early 2015.
VI. How to Apply: Interested applicants should complete an on-line application here or using the link below. The online application requires candidates to upload a resume and cover letter and the cover letter should include an explanation of the candidate's interest in the position as well as a summary of relevant qualifications and experience. Teach Plus will receive applications until the position is filled.
Application link: http://www.tfaforms.com/322686?tfa_109=NEA%20Fellowship%20Manager&tfa_110=&tfa_111=701G0000000F3nW
Teach Plus is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex or natural origin.
Visit www.teachplus.org for more information about the organization.
Nicole Gary
Teach Plus | Human Resources Generalist
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Tower Point, Suite 410
Boston, MA 02210
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