Regional Director of Leader Development - Permian Basin (26-27)

About the role

The Regional Director of Leader Development (DLD) at IDEA is responsible for developing leaders within each IDEA region to ensure every school is led by a transformational leadership team. This role partners with principal supervisors, mentors principals, and other stakeholders to coach a portfolio of school leaders, including CAP participants, PIRs, new principals, and returning principals. The DLD ensures their region achieves ambitious results for scholars in the current school year while building a strong bench of leaders ready for future leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop a portfolio of aspiring principals to strengthen the region’s internal leadership bench.
• Coach a portfolio of priority campus leaders to ensure their campuses meet driving goals.
• Lead regional trainings for campus leaders and follow up to ensure training is implemented effectively.
• Engage in Principal Succession Planning with principal supervisors and Executive Directors.
• Partner closely with the managers of leaders in their coaching portfolio to ensure these leaders receive aligned coaching from both their manager and the DLD.
• Track, analyze, and respond strategically to region-wide data to improve outcomes for both leader development and campus goal attainment.
• Lead the annual Teacher Career Pathway placement process for the region.
• Manage and coach team of regional content and leadership coaches to outcomes serving adult learning, coaching, and feedback mechanisms resulting in increased student achievement metrics.
• Serve as interim principal when there is a principal vacancy.
• Design and facilitate professional development sessions tailored to address region-specific needs.
• Serve as the regional lead for teacher training, including both new teacher training in the summer, annual summer training for all teachers, and ongoing teacher training throughout the year.
• Join interviews for campus leader roles to build the capacity of hiring managers to make effective hiring decisions.
• Build the capacity of managers to effectively onboard new campus leaders.
• Organize and lead school reviews for priority schools.
• Lead the selection process for regional Teacher of the Year and Co-teacher of the Year.

Requirements

This is a full-time onsite position located in the Permian Basin. Preference will be given to candidates who live in the region, or who are willing to relocate.

Travel Expectations: Directors of Leader Development are expected to work on campuses at least 80% of the time. When not working on a campus, they are able to work remotely if given approval by regional leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4+ years teacher experience and 3+ years of school leader experience required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Principal experience strongly preferred.

Skills

• Make Strategic Decisions: Encourages diverse perspectives, manages disagreements constructively, creates space for all voices, clearly communicates final decisions, provides context and anticipated impact.
• Manage Work and Teams: Builds and maintains systems to track progress, ensures clarity through defined roles and responsibilities, implements structured processes, supports smooth team operations, strategically allocates time and resources, and drives goal achievement.
• Grow Self and Others: Identifies development needs across multiple groups, integrates them into broader strategic plans, creates structures that support ongoing growth, engages in succession planning, refines development strategies based on outcomes and data, and fosters a culture of continuous learning.
• Build a Culture of Trust: Fosters a team culture where individuals genuinely care for one another, leads with transparency, encourages open communication, promotes reliability and consistency, seeks and responds to team feedback, and enhances the collective experience.
• Communicate Deliberately: Leads inclusive discussions, surfaces obstacles and drives actionable solutions, communicates key information clearly across multiple channels, establishes feedback loops, and promotes open dialogue, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Analyze and Interpret Data: Analyzes and interprets data to identify trends, identify root causes, develop strategies and tactics that yield results, and achieve goals.
• Develop Effective Partnerships: Develops effective partnerships with multiple stakeholders working towards the same outcome.
• Drive Improvements in Student Outcomes: Drives improvements in student outcomes through instructional and leadership coaching.
• Provide Clear, Actionable Feedback: Provides clear, actionable feedback verbally and in writing that leads to improvements in leadership practices.
• Drive Strategy: Drives a strategy towards the desired outcomes, from planning through execution & follow up.
• Design and Facilitate Professional Development Sessions: Designs and facilitates engaging and impactful professional development sessions for adults.
• Coaching Adults and Inspiring Change: Exceptional ability to coach adults and inspire significant change in their actions.
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Demonstrates critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and the ability to coach and develop these in others.
• Organizational Skills and Attention to Detail: Demonstrates strong organizational skills and attention to detail, and the ability to coach these in others.
• Effective Communication Skills: Demonstrates exceptional verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to manage and monitor multiple projects at once, often under pressure with competing priorities and tight turnarounds, while maintaining composure, ensuring quality, and achieving results.
• Experience in IDEA Frameworks: Proficiency in Relay Graduate School of Education frameworks and protocols (Observation Feedback, Weekly Data Meetings, Action Steps, See It Name It Do, etc.) strongly preferred.

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits: Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $103,800 and $122,400, commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity. This role is also eligible for performance pay based on organizational performance and goal attainment. Additionally, we offer medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. You can find more information about our benefits at https://ideapublicschools.org/careers/benefits/.

IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

Application Process

Submit your application online through Jobvite. Please note that applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible.