About Mastery:

We believe educational inequity is the most pressing social problem facing our country and the civil rights issue of our day. Mastery exists to help solve this problem. Our ultimate goal is to create a model urban school district that serves all students with excellence. We are organized around one driving mission: All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams. To fulfill this mission, we attend to the whole child - academically and emotionally - matching high expectations for students with high levels of support.

Mastery Charter Schools http://www.masterycharter.org/ is a nonprofit network of more than 20 schools http://www.masterycharter.org/app/uploads/2017/12/MCS.Locations.and_.Map_.2017.pdf serving over 13,500 students in Philadelphia and Camden. We are the largest turnaround school operator in the nation and have been lauded by President Obama and the US Department of Education for our ability to dramatically boost academic achievement in historically low-performing schools.

We know neighborhood schools matter, all students deserve access to a great education, and the people in our building can grow and develop sustainably to make the biggest impact possible in this work.

Mastery Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. We offer a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

For more information about the organization, please visit Mastery's website: masterycharter.org.

Position Summary

Mastery seeks an exceptional leader to serve as our network's Director of Teacher Leadership. The Director of Teacher Leadership will define the network's teacher leadership strategy in tight alignment with Mastery's mission and goals. The Director of Teacher Leadership will see this strategy through to executional excellence by incorporating feedback from stakeholders across the network on strategy development and ongoing implementation, developing robust systems to drive the network's approach to teacher leadership and ensuring there is a strong through line between the central office and schools on translating the vision to high-quality day-to-day execution. This will be a new position that reports to the Senior Director, Coaching and Professional Development on the central office's Academic team and will collaborate closely with the Chief Academic Officer and Chief Talent Officer to ensure strong alignment between talent and academics on the network's teacher leadership work.

This position is a fantastic opportunity for an extraordinary leader - the opportunity to create a best-inclass approach to teacher leadership that values, recognizes and retains top performing teachers and magnifies their impact across the network. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a relentless commitment to excellence, have strong previous teacher leadership experience and outcomes and will share a deep belief in Mastery's mission.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead a comprehensive strategic design process to define a network-wide vision and strategy for teacher leadership

Engage with central office leadership, school leaders and teachers to gather and incorporate feedback to ensure that the teacher leadership strategy aligns with the network's vision and goals

Identify a strong value proposition for teacher leadership that attracts top candidates, clearly articulates our theory of action, magnifies the impact of our best teachers and improves retention for our top-performing teacher leaders

Catalog all current teacher leadership initiatives across the network (including but not limited to school-based teacher leaders, collaborative planning content area leads, new teacher coordinators and mentor teachers) and determine how to best align and drive key initiatives through the network-wide vision and strategy for this work

Provide coaching and professional development to teacher leaders to develop skills that position them to grow their impact over time

Serve as a primary point of contact for teacher leaders across the network to provide feedback on overcoming role-specific challenges and connect them with resources to improve their work

Serve as a key academic team leader to ensure this teacher leadership work aligns with and supports our broader vision for academics

Collaborate closely with Academic team Directors to ensure alignment with instructional best practices across content areas

Explore the potential for teacher leadership to strengthen school-based structures and central office support for content knowledge internalization and intellectual preparation for lessons

Determine the financial and staffing feasibility of different models for teacher leadership, including providing teacher leaders partial release time to take on additional responsibilities or paying stipends to teacher leaders to expand the scope of their work

Collaborate with the central office talent team and schools to identify and hire teacher leaders

Research and network with school districts, charter networks, non-profit organizations and other leaders in the teacher leadership space across the country to identify best practices and determine how we can best adapt them to meet our network's needs

Develop goals to drive the teacher leadership work, progress monitoring systems and a yearround research agenda to assess the impact of this work and to ensure we make data-driven decisions on how this work should evolve over time to reach strong outcomes

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree

A minimum of three years of teaching experience in an urban school with a demonstrated track record of achieving strong results with students

A minimum of one year of experience serving as a teacher leader or managing a teacher leadership initiative for a school district, charter school network or non-profit organization

Previous experience providing coaching and feedback to teachers with evidence of improving staff effectiveness

Exceptional interpersonal relationship-building and stakeholder management skills

Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse range of central office and school-based staff

Key Competencies:

Exceptional leadership, management and communication skills

Exceptional interpersonal, relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage relationships with school leaders, teachers and central office staff

Exceptional organizational skills and acute attention to detail

Ability to see multiple projects with many moving parts through from beginning to end

Ability to work autonomously, as well as to take direction and incorporate feedback into positive change

Exceptionally skilled at analysis, persuasion, and negotiation
Primary Location:
Central Office
Salary Range:
Per Year
Shift Type:
Full-Time