About Teach For America
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity that exists along socioeconomic lines.
Since our founding in 1990, we have become the nation’s largest provider of teachers for low-income communities, and have been recognized for building a pipeline of leaders committed to educational equity and excellence. This year, approximately 5,000 corps members are teaching in 26 urban and rural areas across the country, collectively reaching approximately 440,000 students. At the same time, more than 12,000 alumni are working within education and from every field to effect fundamental change.
We are a high-growth, performance-driven organization, with over a $100+ million budget and 800+ staff. We operate in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced work environment, maintain focus on quantitative measures, and are committed to continuous improvement. While approximately 55 percent of our staff members are alumni of our program, fully half – from support staff to senior management – bring a range of outside experience and perspectives to the organization. Our staff is diverse in every respect, and we are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization as we want to engage all those who can contribute to our effort and ensure our access to and participation in the circles of influence in our diverse society.
Summary:
In advance of launching its new corps member and alumni website, Teach For America is founding a new team to promote the self-directed learning of its teachers. The team will enable and inspire corps members, alumni and staff to use Teach For America's best knowledge to date -- and build upon it -- in order to create a vibrant hub of ongoing professional development. Given the nature of multimedia and online learning, the team will address this mission by amassing and developing concrete resources, cultivating community through discussion boards, forums and social networking, curating a space for knowledge development through wikis, showcasing the stories of classrooms across the country, and creating online workshops and courses. The team's "Multimedia and Online Learning" shop will also support the other design teams of Teach For America in their pursuits to deliver content through multimedia. Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for the position.
Location: Flexible (anywhere in the US)
Responsibilities:
The Managing Director of Content and Community is the leader of the team’s pedagogical wing, focused on the collaborative knowledge development of Teach for America’s best practices of teaching, as well as the creation of media products and cultivation of online communities to promote teacher effectiveness and satisfaction. Senior produces site content, including instructional websites, podcasts, webisodes, and e-courses.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Collaborating with other team leaders to shape the direction of Teach For America’s online presence
• Using qualitative and quantitative sources to understand corps member needs, set measurable goals and determine priorities
• Overseeing a team responsible for the design and upkeep of online content and communities that aim to improve teacher performance and inspire ongoing self-improvement among corps members and alumni in the classroom
• Proactively develop relationships with external partners with whom we could expand our network of resources
• Promoting content offerings directly to the corps member audience through the site
• Determine effectiveness of site content and use insights to drive future priorities
Education and Experience:
• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum five years experience in management required
• Minimum two years classroom experience strongly preferred
• Experience creating educational media to achieve organizational goals
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Passionate belief in the mission of Teach For America, and commitment to ensuring that more students growing up today in our nation’s lowest-income communities have the educational opportunities they deserve
• Command of trends and best practices in educational media and teacher professional development
• Strong writing skills
• Exceptional management skills
• Light travel required
• Exemplifies Teach For America’s core values
Compensation:
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.
Apply now at
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TEACHFORAMERICA&cws=1&rid=1710.
