Senior Manager, New Teacher Development and Experience

POSITION: Senior Manager, New Teacher Development and Experience

LOCATION: DSST Public Schools: Home Office located in Denver, CO

SALARY: $75,500 - $93,200 with up to ten years of aligned experience.  This is a fixed term position beginning July 1, 2025 and ending 06/05/2026. We also offer a relocation stipend for anyone joining us from 75 miles or more from Denver! 

STATUS: Full time, benefits eligible, exempt, in-person fixed-term position

START: Immediate.  You can view the current School Year Calendar here. 

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

DSST Public Schools (DSST) seeks a Senior Manager of Teacher Development and Experience to join one of the leading charter school organizations in the nation.  This position provides a unique opportunity for an individual with superior program visioning, strategic planning, project-management, people-leadership, and relationship-building skills to play a central role in supporting the development and experience of new teachers across the organization.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

Lead and monitor the New Teacher Development and Experience Strategy (95%): 

• Work with the Director, Teacher Development and Instructional Leadership to identify needs,  design and implement DSST’s new teacher development strategy ensuring alignment with our mission and educational goals, and with a particular emphasis on curricular content.

• Partner with Home Office Content Managers (Science, ELA, and Math) to build development and coaching systems to support new teachers with curricular content.

• Lead the new teacher development strategic initiative by developing and implementing a comprehensive, multi-year program for new career teachers to foster a profound change in classroom practices, teacher efficacy, and retention rates.

• Design a new teacher mentoring program to support new teacher experience, effectiveness, and retention.

• Work in partnership with schools with high numbers of new/early career teachers and apprentice teachers, acting as a consistent (weekly) presence on campus to provide guidance and support for new teacher development.

• Collaborate with multiple Home Office teams including Leader Development, Culture, Special Education, Content Managers, and Assessment to monitor, gather input, assess, build and implement plans to address new teacher development and experience needs. 

• Collaborate with the Manager of Talent Pipelines to ensure high-quality professional development programs for Apprentice Teachers, including summer training, ongoing professional development, and mentorship throughout the school year.

• Manage implementation and logistics of various DSST professional development (e.g. network content PD days, NSI, TLI, new teacher cohort)

• Evaluate the impact of professional development activities on new teacher teacher perception and performance and student outcomes, leveraging data from surveys, observations and student learning to make informed adjustments and improvements to the new teacher development strategy

• Create a system for content onboarding utilized by new hires throughout the school year.  

• Stay abreast of the latest educational research, trends, and best practices, especially in the realm of new career teacher professional development, to continually elevate the quality of DSST’s teacher development program.

Additional Duties (5%):

• Model our Core Values, Commitment to the Human Condition, and our commitment to equity as a Leader within the Network

• Play an active leadership role in building and sustaining Home Office culture

• Engage with our school communities to actively build relationships between our schools and the home office

• Participate in & support the execution of Home Office & Network-wide events

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university

• Possesses 3+ years as a 6-12 educator and instructional leader, encompassing mentorship and coaching responsibilities, dedicated to cultivating and empowering new educators.