Senior Program Manager - MTTI

Senior Program Manager ��" Memphis Teacher Talent Initiative
Memphis, TN
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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. TNTP is active in more than 25 cities, including 10 of the nation's 15 largest. For more information, please visit www.tntp.org.
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We are currently seeking a Senior Program Manager for our Memphis Teacher Talent Initiative (MTTI).� The Senior Program Manager will be a TNTP employee based at the Memphis City Schools district office.� This position is available immediately. TNTP may provide a relocation stipend to help defer the cost of moving.�
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Performance Management Group

TNTP is advancing human capital policies and practices that support teacher effectiveness in districts and states and improving the way school leaders and administrators manage their teachers. This starts with robust teacher evaluation and development systems that produce clear information on how teachers are performing their most critical role: advancing student learning. TNTP is helping its partners at the state, district, and school level to design and implement evaluation and development systems, and use information about teacher performance in decisions about hiring and staffing, development, compensation, promotion, and retention.�
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Memphis Teacher Talent Initiative
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TNTP has partnered with Memphis City Schools to implement the Memphis Teacher Talent Initiative (MTTI) a start-to-finish teacher pipeline that supplies high-quality teachers, supports effective matches between candidates and schools, strengthens hiring practices and ensures that all of the district�� s principals can choose the best teachers for their classrooms from the strongest possible pool of candidates. MTTI services include working directly with school leaders to strengthen their staffing approaches, market their schools to high-quality teacher candidates and identify teacher vacancies earlier in the school year. Through aggressive recruitment and selection, MTTI amasses a large, high-quality pool of teacher applicants ��" including traditionally certified and alternate route candidates - from which principals can hire the individuals who most closely fit the needs of their school.


Role and Responsibilities

The Senior Program Manager will have a profound impact on how teachers are hired in Memphis City Schools by building and managing strong� relationships with district staff and partner programs and facilitating the placement of teachers in approximately 40 Memphis schools.�
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Specific responsibilities associate with this role include:

-Monitoring and meeting ambitious goals in order to ensure that all school vacancies are filled by the first day of � instruction
-Developing strong rapport and credibility with district and school based staff (particularly principals), partner programs, and other stakeholders as needed, positioning self as trusted advisor on effective hiring to