Dear Alice,
The man you want is Wick Sloane. He was provost at University of Hawaii and now teaches at Bunker Hill Community college here in Boston. His issue when he is not teaching is educational inequity. Just Google him and you'll see a number of great articles on the subject.
Joseph Bower
Professor Joseph L. Bower, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School , Morgan Hall 467 Soldiers Field Station, Boston, MA 02163
617-495-6282
Hello All,
Teach For America is a national nonprofit working to eliminate educational inequity in our country. We are seeking a managing director, design to join staff and design a robust suite of competency-base trainings for our 1,200-person staff. This is a truly innovative project that will deliver ground-breaking results. We feel the ideal candidate for this role will have exceptional strategic thinking skills and likely come from the consulting world and thus I wanted to share this opportunity with all of you.
I have included a profile summary for you below (just to get you thinking about relevant people you may know). I have also provided some external language for you to pass along to your network: a brief intro on Teach For America and our short format job description with a hyperlink to our website and the full job description.
Thanks in advance for your consideration of this opportunity and the request to share this with your networks. Please let me know if you have any great people you think I should speak with. We are really struggling to find this person and greatly appreciate any suggestions/leads.
Best,
Alice
Managing Director, Design Profile Summary:
Location: Proximity to NYC, northeast corridor
Years of Experience: Roughly 8-10 years, does not need heavy management experience (this is a very small team)
Function: This person is designing processes, tools, trainings related to staff learning and development. Really heavy design, someone really interested in rolling up sleeves, creating and producing content, revising content and working with people to implement it
Skills/Motivations: Incredibly strategic mind (will be spending time in their heads and wrestling with theories and making them come to life). Enjoys working through stuff, hammering it out, as opposed to external interaction on an everyday basis (handles solo project work)
Background: Academia (MBA programs, someone who knows management curriculum), Strategy Consulting (able to do the translation piece of bringing something to life for managers)
Pitfallls: We are not looking people with broad organizational effectiveness work experience (this role is far more narrow in scope), nor are we seeking niche adult learning experts (i.e. created trainings for sales forces or technical trainings), this tends to be folks who haven't done this work at the level deep enough and they really struggle with the theory behind what we are creating
Teach For America Opportunities
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding college graduates and professionals who commit two years to teach in public schools in the nation's lowest income communities and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. We seek talented individuals of all backgrounds, with a strong record of achievement in their professional areas, to join our staff and play a critical role in enabling us to reach our ambitious goals. Visit www.teachforamerica.org/careers for a full list of open positions and more information.
Managing Director, Design, Human Assets Team
Teach For America is seeking a managing director of design to create and implement robust large scale staff trainings in the areas of operating and managing skills, interpersonal skills, and strategic thinking skills. The managing director will partner with the vice president of organizational effectiveness to determine the vision, parameters, measures of success and workflow around staff related design initiatives and will identify and evaluate promising learning & development activities across the organization, codifying and disseminating best practices as appropriate. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with at least five years of professional work experience and exemplary critical thinking, writing and organizational skills.
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