Middle School - Instructional Manager

Major Performance Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage and Develop Talent: Select, recruit, onboard, train, evaluate, and manage LEAD teachers. Conduct formal performance reviews and compensation discussions.
• Engage teachers in reflective thinking while critically examining their instructional practices. Build rapport with teachers and direct reports.
• Motivate and inspire teachers to prioritize student outcomes as the ultimate goal for all professional efforts.
• Curriculum and Content Specialist: Promote the implementation of state standards through LPS agreed-upon academic curricula. Act as a content area expert, dissect standards, and guide the identification of essential knowledge, skills, and learning targets.
• Instructional Leadership: Collaborate with the Assistant Principal of Instruction and LPS Academic Team to facilitate teachers' understanding and implementation of the Tennessee Academic Standards and LPS Academic Model. Develop and execute integrated and individual learning cycles for teacher professional growth and best practices in coaching.
• Professional Learning Facilitator: Collaborate with the Assistant Principal of Instruction, Principal, and Network Academic Team, and teacher leaders to create, revise, and facilitate professional learning aligned to teacher needs and student outcomes. Design and adjust a professional learning plan, analyze feedback, and identify teachers needing individual professional learning plans.

Experience and Education

• Valid teaching license and eligibility for TN licensure preferred.
• At least three years of exemplary teaching experience, including a strong pedagogical background.
• Coaching experience preferred with knowledge of, and experience with, instructional moves.
• At least some experience leading a group of adults in an educational K-12 setting (e.g., Grade Level Chair, Content Lead).
• Specifically, experience facilitating teams and supporting results-oriented goals.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution. A Master’s degree is preferred, but experience leading in a school and managing teams successfully is paramount.

Competencies

• Instructional Manager Leadership: Foundational Competencies - Self-awareness, Learning agility, Influence, Communication/leadership presence, Mission-driven.
• Develop Talent: Coach for development, Provide constructive feedback.
• Motivate and engage others.
• Builds relationships, builds trust, manages conflict, challenges appropriately, collaborates and partners, achieves desired outcomes.
• Prioritizes, directs others, decisiveness.

Application

To learn more about the work of LEAD Public Schools and to apply, please go to www.leadpublicschools.org.