Managing Director, Educator Fellowships

ROLE TITLE: Managing Director, Educator Fellowship

POSITION REPORTS TO: Senior Managing Director, Educator Fellowships (Nikhita Navani)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: The deadline is Monday, June 23, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET

LOCATION: The Michigan team’s office is in Detroit. The role will require on-site work with educators in communities across Michigan 3-4 times per month, on average.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

TFA Detroit/Michigan (Det/MI) is seeking an education professional to support high quality coaching and learning experiences for over 100 educators in school leadership across the Sitting Leaders fellowships. This role is a strong fit for an education leader with a track record of strong results in a principal or assistant principal role and is looking for a high-growth opportunity in a program design/delivery space. This role will require a leader who is willing to build deep and authentic relationships with educators, commit to gaining necessary knowledge of the context they work in, and balance zooming in (being proximate) with zooming out (seeing the global view) to ensure high quality experience for sitting leaders.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Responsibilities for the Managing Director, Educator Fellowships Include:

30%: Oversee program delivery for a cohort of fellows in the  Sitting Leaders fellowships, including:

• Designing (as appropriate) and facilitating learning experiences in alignment with the Sitting Leaders program arcs and in service of topline goals

• Delivering high quality professional development workshops in alignment with our Best Practices in Adult Learning

• Conducting on site visits with educators across Michigan to deepen relationships, build context, and gather feedback

• Maintaining a close pulse on educator experience, retention, and growth

30%: Execute a high impact coaching model designed to advance proficiency in key educator skills and practices, including:

• Building and maintaining coaching infrastructure, including tracking fellow progress in each coaching cycle, scheduling coaching calls, and maintaining consistent communication with coaches

• Coaching small groups of Sitting Leaders aligned to program arcs

• Measuring growing proficiency of educators in alignment to goals

• Recommending adjustments to program delivery, as needed

20%: Support the execution of our work focused on building strong model schools through developing collective efficacy in fellows within the same building. 20%: Contribute to enterprise level priorities throughout the year. Our team takes an “all hands on deck” approach to these events, requiring that each team member contribute capacity and time. These enterprise level priorities include:

• Detroit Summer Learning Institute (June and July)

• EmpowerEd Weekends (2x per year, October and April)

• Fellow Selection (throughout the Spring)

• Corps Member & Ignite Fellow selection (throughout the Fall and Spring)

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

Over the course of any week, the Managing Director, Educator Fellowships will spend time “zooming in” and building deep relationships with school leaders – through coaching conversations, site visits, or other engagements. They will also spend time zooming out to design, refine, and implement systems – whether building and testing a new coaching infrastructure; designing strong adult learning for an upcoming workshop; or working on building the collective efficacy on school teams through our model schools work.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Competitive Candidates will have the following characteristics and experiences:

Previous Experience

• At least 7 years of relevant experience working in schools that serve under resourced communities, with at least 4 years leading as a principal

• Experience coaching school leaders in formal or informal settings. Formal coaching certification preferred but not required.

• Track record of leading undefined, emerging and complex projects.

• Experience delivering high quality adult learning spaces, ranging from large network level spaces to one-on-one classroom coaching.

• Experience leading other adults in informal capacities.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and a proven ability to develop and steward relationships to bring people together into shared purpose.

• Expertise in best practices for school leaders; can translate ex