SMD, Network Impact & Experiences

ROLE TITLE: Senior Managing Director, Network Impact & Experiences (Full-Time)
POSITION REPORTS TO: Jennifer Howard, Executive Director
APPLICATION DEADLINE: The deadline is Friday, June 6, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET.
LOCATION: Living in the State of Ohio is required

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO
Teach For America Ohio seeks a Senior Managing Director, Network Impact & Experiences to set the direction and ensure the success of our statewide regional program, by designing and executing corps member learning, leadership, and community-building experiences from summer practicum throughout the 2-year corps experience, and school-based alumni educator programming. Your leadership and collaboration with colleagues across the organization will directly support our statewide talent ecosystem. 

As an ideal candidate, you have demonstrated success leading and influencing colleagues within and across teams toward shared goals. Your current and past colleagues call you a dream collaborator. You’ve got a knack for helping people understand their unique role in a strategy and connecting them with one another. You can build a team culture that fosters collaboration and impact orientation. You’re also decisive. You consider the appropriate context, short- and long-term impacts, and who is most impacted by a decision, and know when to deliberate and when to move swiftly. You’re proud of your project management skills and can juggle several workstreams and teams at once. Finally, you are people-oriented and coaching-oriented, using every interaction as an opportunity to bring out the best in your colleagues.

Ultimately, this job will position you to advance learning and life opportunities for local students by ensuring that corps members and alumni educators are making a profound impact on student outcomes across the state. You will report to the Ohio Executive Director and closely partner with the Midwest Program Hub’s Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development. You will co-manage Managing Directors, Leadership Development around corps member support, and collaborate with the regional Managing Directors, Alumni Impact & Experiences, to ensure program cohesion across the state. You will work on initiatives with our statewide regional team and field fundraising staff to share pertinent program data with stakeholders. This is an Ohio-based role.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Regional Program Strategy and Execution  (80%)

• Set and manage the vision and direction for our local corps program, using local context, our larger arc of member experience (applicant to alumni), and the organization-wide program model. You will do this in close collaboration with Managing Directors, Leadership Development, and our regional staff. You will lead and project manage this vision from matriculation and onboarding through Pre-Service (initial summer training), through the two-year corps commitment, to the transition to alumnihood. This includes answering the following questions and executing accordingly:

  • What kind of impact do we hope corps members will have on their schools and students in our region, specifically? How will we measure that? How will we support them with it? What kinds of additional professional and leadership development will we offer locally? 

  • What should our Ohio corps member community feel like? How will staff support corps members to build that community? What kinds of community-building spaces will we offer locally?

  • What skills, knowledge, and mindsets will corps members build so they are prepared to lead for educational progress as alumni in our region? How will we help them develop?

• Serve as a co-manager of Managing Directors, Leadership Development, alongside a central team of the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development. In this co-management relationship, the Senior Managing Director, Leadership Development, is responsible for “capabilities management” (helping MD, LDs execute our central program model), while you are responsible for “values management” (helping MD, LDs put that central program model in the context of our region).

• In collaboration with the Executive Director and other colleagues, assess the regional landscape and identify opportunities for TFA Ohio to increase its impact, and develop plans to leverage core organizational capabilities and resources (e.g., programming, alumni, strategic relationships, funding) toward new programs, initiatives and partnerships that address key educational needs in Ohio and N