Associate Director, Programs

Position description

To solve the world’s most pressing problems, we need all of tomorrow’s problem-solvers to be equipped with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) knowledge, skills, and inspiration. And tomorrow’s problem-solvers need excellent STEM teachers today to guide them. In 2021, Beyond100K (formerly 100Kin10) successfully met its first 10-year goal by preparing more than 108,000 excellent STEM teachers for America’s classrooms, surpassing the audacious goal set by President Obama a decade prior. To do this, we built a new type of networked-impact effort that rethinks how organizations collaborate, learn from one another, and together identify and tackle challenges that none could successfully address on its own. We achieved this goal in the midst of a growing national teacher shortage and a global pandemic, uniting over 300 leading agencies and organizations and 3,000 individuals across the country to tackle something seemingly intractable – ending the STEM teacher shortage, so that all kids could have access to a great STEM education and contribute their spark to a brighter future.

The Next Generation – To decide our next goal, we undertook a national, participatory listening process asking young people, primarily Black, Latinx, and Native American young people, to share their experience in PK-12 STEM education. More than 600 young people responded to our call. Their stories and the resulting goal positions us to decrease the STEM teacher shortage and center belonging, while focusing on the students, teachers, and schools that have been least well-served in STEM education. By 2032, our goal is to increase student and teacher belonging and to reduce the shortage by one-third, mobilizing a growing network to prepare 150,000 STEM teachers and retain 150,000 STEM teachers beginning with schools in Black, Latinx, and Native American communities — where the shortage has been the hardest to solve.About the Role

As Beyond100K enters its second decade, we are seeking a talented leader who will serve as the Associate Director, Programs on Beyond 100K’s Community Team. You will lead the design and oversee the implementation of the Beyond100K programmatic arc, including in-person and virtual events, development or adaptation of collaborative problem-solving experiences, and other emergent program strategies and tactics that center diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for a group of over 170 diverse stakeholders. A key focus will be the management and design of the annual partner summit where you will be the key architect of the program design and facilitation in addition to overseeing the collaborative effort to make the event successful. In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring the success the network is making towards impact goals and work collaboratively across teams to adjust program strategy and implementation to ensure network impact. You will supervise a team of up to two program managers on the Community Team and will work with the Chief Program Officer to support an effective, positive, and inclusive team culture.Expected travel is 10-15% and includes quarterly team retreats and select in-person partner engagements. This position reports to Chief Program Officer, Maya Garcia.Your Responsibilities will Include:

Program Strategy and Design

• Lead the organizational planning for our our Annual Partner Summit for up to 250 participants
• Collaborate with internal team members, organizational leadership, and external partners to ensure alignment of programmatic goals with organizational objectives
• Leverage inclusive and equitable human-centered design to support the development of the annual Beyond100K Program Arc of the Year
• Introduce innovative approaches to enhance program effectiveness, with a specific focus on alignment to DEIB principles
• Implement program evaluation and assessment systems in collaboration with data consultant to identify area of growth and opportunity for strategic visioning
• Communicate program goals, progress, and outcomes to various stakeholders., (Generating reports and presentations for both internal and external audiences)

Program Implementation and Monitoring

• Support the development of and maintain effective systems of communication and project management
• Work closely with teams from different departments to ensure coherence across lines of work
• Manage systems for reviewing and improving program strategies based on feedback and results.
• Manage aspects of program implementation or content development directly, depending on organizational priorities and capacity

Overall Management

• Work collaboratively with the Chief Program Officer to ensure strategic and resource alignment of the programmatic portfolio
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and leadership to team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment
• Supervise up to two direct reports and additional contractors as needed to implement programs
• Develop and manage of implementation plans, timelines, staffing plans, and budgets for their program portfolio

Your Experience

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of seven years of related professional experience, including experience in the following areas:

• Program design and management in one of the following areas:
• K-12 STEM Education
• Educator Effectiveness
• Collective and/or Network Impact
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
• Adult learning and/or large group facilitation experience
• Project management across multiple teammates

Skills

• Program Design & Manager: You have demonstrated ability to think strategically and align program activities with organizational goals and mission. You apply human-centered design and equitable design principles to your approach to program and experience design. 
• Project Manager: You have stellar project management skills. You are highly organized and detail oriented and can successfully build and oversee complex projects across multiple team members.
• Strategic and Analytical: You have strong problem solving skills and leverage different tools to support effective decision-making.
• Community-Builder: You are a community-builder and have deep expertise in bringing diverse groups of organizations and individuals together to achieve shared outcomes.
• Strategic Communicator & Facilitator: You are an excellent communicator. You excel at facilitating rich conversations on complex issues and synthesizing insights from gatherings.
• Impact Player & Team Member: You are able to work independently and as part of a remote team. You are self-directed and proactive in an environment with dynamic priorities. You are team-oriented, open-minded, creative and flexible. 
• People Leader: You excel at managing and developing individuals and fostering strong team dynamics.

Mindsets

• Adaptability: The ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment where you have autonomy to drive your work
• Racial Justice and DEI Leadership: The ability to lead in a way that is centered on racial justice and DEI.
• Continuous Improvement: You are someone who is continually striving to improve. You collect data and determine opportunities to improve to better meet the needs of partners and the Network.
• People First: You are someone who prioritizes relationships with individuals and organizations and believes in the power of bringing groups together around a common charge.
• Growth Mindset: The ability to identify new areas for learning; regularly create and take advantage of learning opportunities; use newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application
• Host not Hero: The perspective of being a network entrepreneur, facilitating and enabling change, not dictating it
• Think like a scientist: You are a curious asker of questions with the ability to generate testable hypotheses, design experiments to test initial hypotheses and gather data to support a particular direction. You are never afraid to re-think or re-test a hypothesis.
• Self-motivation: The drive to proactively take the initiative, identifying problems and opportunities across your portfolio, developing recommendations, and taking action on those recommendations
• Passion for Social Change: The drive and desire to contribute to making change in our society, in education and beyond, with interest in social change theories and putting those theories into practice

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