Leadership Coach, Northeast Region

TNTP seeks a full-time Leadership Coach to join our Consulting Division in the Northeast Region.  This position is based in a home office anywhere in the Northeast: DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Candidates must reside or be willing to relocate to a state in TNTP's Northeast region to be considered for this role.  Frequent travel of up to 40% will be required, contingent upon organizational/state/federal travel regulations. 

Who We Are 

A national nonprofit founded by teachers, TNTP believes our nation’s public schools can offer all children an excellent education. Today we’re a diverse team from a wide range of fields, united by a fierce commitment to helping school systems end educational inequality. We work at every level of the public education system to attract and train talented teachers and school leaders, ensure rigorous and engaging classrooms, and create environments that prioritize great teaching and accelerate student learning. 

Staff in TNTP's Consulting Division work alongside teachers, school leaders, districts, and states to help them achieve their goals for students. Our staff work across urban and suburban school districts, independent charter schools, and charter networks. Our team is diverse and brings a wide range of expertise across content areas. We work to create effective leaders by advising clients on leadership development priorities, recruiting and training new school leaders and developing current leaders through targeted professional development and one-on-one coaching.  

What You’ll Do 

We know that to have an effective teacher in every classroom, there must be an effective leader in every school.  As a Leadership Coach, you will work with our team and leaders in districts and schools across the Northeast Region to drive systemic change by creating and developing a shared vision of what excellent instruction looks like. You’ll advise senior-level clients on setting their leadership development strategy, including setting development priorities and programming across multiple levels of leadership and provide direct support to current school leaders through coaching and professional development. You’ll take an integrated approach to developing equity-driven, instructional leaders, developing leaders around key instructional practices and beliefs that lead to success for the teachers, students, and families they serve.  

Specific responsibilities may include: 

• Design and set leadership development strategy for projects including setting ambitious, high impact project goals, monitoring progress, and adjusting project strategy as necessary 
• Lead and develop project teams to drive leadership development strategy and ensure daily actions align with that vision 
• Invest and collaborate with senior-level clients on leadership development strategy and development priorities 
• Ensure that leadership development programming such as professional development, coaching, or instructional rounds are effective in improving leader performance 
• Facilitate goals-based coaching aligned to leadership development priorities and differentiated for individual leader and school or district needs and context 
• Design and facilitate professional development and training experiences for aspiring, new, and veteran school or district leaders 
• Position self as a credible expert on leadership development and programming, leader training, and effective talent management, advising clients on approach and sharing best practices from TNTP’s national reports and other work 
• Collaborate with TNTP Leadership Coaches across contracts to develop TNTP’s best practices in leadership development 
• Contribute to the vision and strategy, as well as expansion, of TNTP’s leadership development work 

What You Bring 

First and foremost, we are looking for amazing people who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission, and are highly motivated to change children's lives through education.  We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, and the people around you to the next level. We encourage those with the following identities to apply: Black, Latinx, Asian American, and Pacific Islander, local Indigenous people, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary people, people living with disabilities, and others with lived experience being part of marginalized communities. 

We expect our Leadership Coach to: 

• Bring a distinguished track record in school leadership. You have coached school leaders or led schools that achieved great things for their students and believe a strong school leader is essential to the success of a school.    
• Demonstrate expertise in facilitating powerful learning experiences for adults. You excel at designing and implementing professional development experiences and have the content expertise to create rich training materials, conceptualize meaningful interactive learning experiences, and facilitate training sessions for school leaders that help them shift their practice and support them in implementing learning experiences at the campus-level.  
• Propose innovative solutions to complex challenges. You have a history of tackling high stakes challenges head on and moving work forward toward successful outcomes. Ambiguity doesn’t overwhelm you; just the opposite, you thrive on it. Your creative instincts will help you deal with vague situations and develop new approaches with limited guidance. 
• Influence leaders to act. You’ll regularly interact with and be expected to influence clients – motivating them to make both incremental change and take quantum leaps.   
• Embrace cross-cultural agility.  Authentic self-reflection, self- awareness, and high emotional intelligence are central to who you are, and you utilize these skills to contribute to a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. You have an adept cultural understanding of yourself and use your understanding of yourself and others to build trusting relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.    
• Build relationships. You have the ability to connect and build relationships with diverse communities. Bilingual abilities are a plus, Spanish language preferred.