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Hello All,

Teach for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is seeking a senior managing director, design for our human assets team. We feel this person could come from a management consulting background and thus I wanted to get this on your radar and request that you share it with your network.

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 request and please let me know if you have any great people you think I should speak with. I greatly appreciate any suggestions/leads.

Best,

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Alice</st1:city></st1:place>

Senior Managing Director, Design Profile Summary:

Location: Proximity to NYC, northeast corridor

Function: This person will lead the creation of our staff learning and development offerings by developing the strategy and tools needed across the organization. This role requires really heavy design skills, and the ability to set the vision for a team

Skills/Motivations: Incredibly strategic mind (will be shaping the vision for this entire team and spending time 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 (will be doing a lot of content creation)

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 built from the ground up and they really struggle with the theory behind what they are creating

Teach For <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> 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.

Senior Managing Director, Design, Learning and Development, Human Assets

We are seeking a senior managing director of design to develop centralized and customized design support to various program, regional and national teams in Teach For America. The senior managing director will also lead the creation of robust and large scale staff trainings in the skill areas of operating and managing; interpersonal; and strategic thinking. An ideal candidate is an experienced practitioner with extensive experience in creating strategy, developing solutions, thoughtfully designing and successfully implementing learning and professional development programs in organizations of our size.