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Director, Program

Teaching Lab
UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Oct 2023
💰 $160,335/yr($106,000/yr$160,335/yr)

About the role

Director, Program for a 75+ employee (and growing) remote education non-profit providing professional learning to K-12 educators nationally
Type of Vacancy: Salaried, full-timeStart date: ASAPLocation: Remote/home office anywhere in the continental United StatesReport to: Senior Director, ProgramSupervises: Often supervises Manager(s), Program. Dependent on project, the Director, Program is often a Project Leader with project team supervision and leadership development responsibilities.Compensation: The full salary range for this position is $106,000 - $160,335 annually. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates that possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications). Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint to allow for continued growth in the role over time.
Teaching Lab is an equal-opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of the students we serve. We pursue equity as both a means and an end and enthusiastically welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this role.
WHO WE ARETeaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning to achieve educational equity. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives.In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at www.teachinglab.org.
SUMMARY OF POSITIONThe Director, Program helps set Teaching Lab programmatic goals, creates the systems and processes for meeting the goals, delegates work to team members, and leads the implementation of these systems and processes to meet the programmatic goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

  • Implement excellent programmatic services 
  • The Director, Program manages programmatic projects and manages team members to successfully meet the goals of the projects; projects include but are not limited to: professional learning content development projects, professional learning implementation with state and district systems, etc.
  • Acts as a content area expert aligned with organizational needs, i.e., has some area of content expertise (like subject-area expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies curriculum and/or instructional expertise, or general expertise in coaching for continuous improvement or state/system level leadership development, etc.) that they bring to bear on aligned projects as well as support team members to build their content expertise
  • Hold many different roles on multiple projects, given capacity, skills, competencies, and interests. This position will often hold the role of a Project Leader
  • The Director, Program will often hold the role as a Home Manager and, as applicable within the role, models the people manager-specific competency, and implements actions that support a positive work culture and increases productivity (e.g., provides feedback, coaching, counseling, training, development, etc.).
  • Maintain and renew contracts with clients to sustain impact on teacher and student learning; support on business development, as needed 

  • Engage in efficient and effective project management
  • Implement and support other team members to implement the project plans for assigned projects; if needed, identify needs for consultant support to complete projects on time and with high quality; supervise consultants 
  • Maintain partner project plans that track the execution of services related to scopes of work, and support other team members to maintain individual partner project plans for each project
  • Demonstrate strong organizational skills, time management, and workflow management while attending to the diverse needs of partners and keeping a radically responsive orientation
  • Develop systems, tools, and processes to support effective and efficient implementation of services to scale Teaching Lab’s partnerships and impact over time
  • Maintain contracts and invoices for each partner; collaborate with other team members and the Senior Director, Finance to ensure accurate invoices are sent and billed

  • Design high-quality, research based, user-centered professional learning content, services, and tools/resources 
  • Creat

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