Project Director, Emerging Services

Project Director, Emerging Services
Flexible location
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The New Teacher Project (TNTP) strives to end the injustice of educational inequality by providing excellent teachers to the students who need them most and by advancing policies and practices that ensure effective teaching in every classroom. A national nonprofit organization founded by teachers, TNTP is driven by the knowledge that effective teachers have a greater impact on student achievement than any other school factor. In response, TNTP develops customized programs and policy interventions that enable education leaders to find, develop and keep great teachers. Since its inception in 1997, TNTP has recruited or trained approximately 43,000 teachers and worked with more than 200 districts in 31 states - benefiting an estimated 7 million students. Meanwhile, TNTP's acclaimed studies of the policies and practices that affect the quality of the teacher workforce -- most recently including The Widget Effect (2009) and Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (2010) -- have influenced federal education policy and inspired reform efforts across the country.
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TNTP is active in more than 25 cities, including 10 of the nation's 15 largest.
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We are currently seeking a full-time Project Director, Emerging Services within our Performance Management Group.� The Project Director will be a TNTP employee based in a home office anywhere in the U.S and require up to 30% travel.� This role is available immediately.
Performance Management Group

As long as education policies continue to ignore the differences between teachers, districts will never be able to build a thriving teacher workforce capable of closing the achievement gap. TNTP�� s Performance Management group will work on the ground with states and districts to generate accurate performance data, use this data to inform school-level decisions, and drive district policy and practice.


Emerging Services Department
The Emerging Services Department works across the organization to research, prioritize, design and scale the next wave of services. Three initial areas of focus include working to develop services around Compensation and Career Pathways and Working Conditions as well as developing a scalable approach to Resource Allocation to ensure the sustainability of educational reforms.

Role and Responsibilities
The Project Director will focus on developing new services for resource allocation at the school, district and state level.� The Project Director will report to the Partner, Emerging Services and will manage an Analyst. In addition to designing new service offerings, the Project Director will be responsible for the successful execution of multiple pilots of the new services with state and/or district clients.� Specifically, the Project Director will:
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Design new service offerings
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-Work with the Partner, Emerging Services to ensure sustainability of educational reforms at the school, district, and state level
-Work with the Vice President and Partner of the Emerging Services � Department to persuade district leaders and, where applicable, state partners to allow TNTP to gather data in the state and/or district(s)
-Analyze financial� and other school, district and state data to inform the service offerings
-Conduct outreach with local district partners and/or external organizations to facilitate system design and refine design elements
-Build investment among partner clients for collective bargaining reforms and/or state legislation that will address existing policy barriers
-Develop educational outreach offerings for district stakeholders, legislative staff, elected officials, and advocacy groups
-Create high quality, data-driven reports demonstrating the impact of collective bargaining agreement provisions and/or state laws and policies
-Write white papers or other communications articulating w