Director, Program

Job description

Director, Program for a 125+ employee (and growing) remote education non-profit providing professional learning to K-12 educators nationally

Type of Vacancy: Salaried, full-time

Start date: August-September 2025

Location Preference: While this is a remote position, we strongly prefer candidates who reside in the Southern United States (TX, LA, NM, AZ, OK, MS, AR) due to the regional focus of this role. Applicants from other locations are still encouraged to apply.

Report to: Senior Director, Program

Supervises: Often supervises Manager(s) and Senior Manager(s), Program. Dependent on the project, the Director, Program is often a Project Leader with project team supervision and leadership development responsibilities.

Compensation: The full salary range for this position is $106,000 - $160,335 annually. This range represents the full earning potential for the role, including opportunities for salary growth over time based on performance, tenure, and organizational budget. The anticipated hiring range for this position is $106,000 - $139,825. Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint of the full salary range ($139,825) to allow for continued growth in the role over time. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships, part-time work, and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates who possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications).

Areas of Expertise: Bilingual Expertise: Experience coaching bilingual or dual-language educators and leaders, with an emphasis on implementing high-quality instruction in both English and Spanish. Ability to support Spanish-speaking educators and classrooms in linguistically diverse contexts is highly preferred.

Teaching Lab is an equal-opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of the students we serve. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this role.

WHO WE ARE

Teaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at www.teachinglab.org.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

The Director, Program helps set Teaching Lab’s programmatic goals, creates the systems and processes for meeting them, delegates work to team members, and leads the implementation of these systems and processes to meet the programmatic goals. This role is critical in Teaching Lab’s mission to positively impact educator practice in service of increased student learning.

Frequent travel to Southern Texas is required for this role.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary responsibilities for the Director, Program (Bilingual English/Spanish ELA) include:

• Implement excellent programmatic services

• Manage programmatic projects and often manage team members to successfully meet the goals of the projects; projects include but are not limited to: professional learning content development projects, professional learning implementation with state and district systems, direct-to-teacher or direct-to-leader coaching, etc.

• Act as a content area expert aligned with organizational needs, i.e., has some area of content expertise (like subject-area expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies curriculum and/or instructional expertise, or general expertise in coaching for continuous improvement or state/system level leadership development, etc.) that they bring to bear on aligned projects as well as support team members to build their content expertise

• Often hold the role of a Project Lead in on project teams, responsible for ensuring project success and sustainability. However, given time, capacity, competencies, skills, and interests, the Director, Program could hold multiple other roles on project teams (e.g., Coach Developer, Client Partnership Manager, Instructional Designer, Subject Matter Expert, Coach/Facilitator, etc.)

• Help shape the program for each partner aligned with the partner’s goals

• Build and continuously update knowledge of Teaching Lab’s programming and services in order to knowledgeably suggest adaptations and customizations for the partner

• Develop a deep understanding of partner enabling conditions and needs to inform programmatic implementation plans

• Maintain and renew contracts with clients to sustain impact on teacher and student learning; support business development as needed

• Design high-quality, research-based, user-centered professional learning content, services, and tools/resources

• Create materials and content for programmatic partnerships and courses

• Engage in Teaching Lab’s user-centered design processes (engaging with Teacher Advisory Board, supporting pilot partnerships, developing rapid prototypes) and use learning and insights to inform design

• Engage in Teaching Lab’s design process to develop content, including drafting, feedback cycles, pilot partnerships (as applicable), and finalization steps (e.g., adhere to Teaching Lab’s style and branding guidelines when developing new content)

• Apply best practices for virtual and in-person adult learning in the design of professional learning content

• If applicable, engage in efficient and effective project management as a Project Lead

• Implement and support other team members to implement the project plans for assigned projects; if needed, identify needs for consultant support to complete projects on time and with high quality; supervise consultants

• Maintain partner project plans that track the execution of services related to scopes of work, and support other team members to maintain individual partner project plans for each project

• Demonstrate strong organizational skills, time management, and workflow management while attending to the diverse needs of partners and keeping a radically responsive orientation

• Develop systems, tools, and processes to support effective and efficient implementation of services to scale Teaching Lab’s partnerships and impact over time

• Maintain contracts and invoices for each partner; collaborate with other team members and the Finance department to ensure accurate invoices are billed and collected

• If applicable, provide vision, direction, and oversight of direct reports as a Home Manager

• Model the people manager-specific competency and implement actions that support a positive work culture and increase productivity (e.g., providing feedback, coaching, counseling, training, development, etc.)

• Provide coaching and support to direct reports on their projects and/or assignments, including identifying and addressing development needs and supports

• Monitor workloads and capacity to ensure effectiveness and productivity while promoting time management and prioritization of assignments

• Provide frequent values-based feedback and recognition to direct reports

• Ensure the successful completion of direct reports’ annual  goals as well as those of their direct reports

• Conduct annual evaluations for direct reports

• Complete internal tasks related to people management in a timely manner

• Hire for open Program department roles

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration

• Collaborate with Program department team members to continuously refine and develop high-quality professional learning content and implement professional learning

• Work with Teaching Lab team members to identify and engage new and existing school system partners on scopes of work that drive towards impact and outcomes for teachers and students

• Collaborate with the Learning & Research department to adapt and improve Teaching Lab’s high-quality data collection and impact evaluation processes

• Engage in internal project flex teams to support non-client-facing, but critical programmatic projects

• Engage in continuous learning

• Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies in project management, client management, coaching, and adult facilitation

• Engage in personal and organized learning opportunities as a team member at a values-based and mission-focused organization.

• Create and deliver training to other team members on core skills or competencies within the Director, Program role which is also transferable and critical for other roles

• Perform other duties as assigned by Program department leadership and/or Executive Team.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND KEY SUCCESS INDICATORS (KSIs)

• The Director, Program (Bilingual English/Spanish ELA) is accountable for achieving goals set in collaboration with their manager, aligned with annual goals, and especially, Key Success Indicators (KSI). Below are examples of measured outcomes for Key Success Indicators (KSI). Additional information will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

• As applicable, within the role, model the radical commitments for our values.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience setting goals, creating the systems and processes for meeting the goals for educational programming
• Experience creating the strategy for a team or business function
• Track record of effective people management
• Five or more years of combined experience directing projects and leading teams
• Five or more years of combined experience planning and implementing projects
• Five or more years combined experience working with partners outside of their organization to manage workflow or deliver services
• Eight or more years combined experience working in PK-12 education, with a minimum of two years experience teaching bilingual (English/Spanish) PK-12 students from traditionally underserved backgrounds with demonstrated evidence of impact
• Five or more years combined experience leading or coaching the implementation of bilingual (English/Spanish) HQIM (in any subject area)
• Deep knowledge and experience with bilingual ELA content and practice standards
• Experience designing impactful professional learning for educators
• Experience facilitating impactful professional learning or coaching for educators
• Experience leading relationships with clients and stakeholders in an education context

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree
• Deep understanding of the specified curriculum, including its design and component parts
• Experience providing professional learning support and services in and for consultative organizations

WORKING CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to work a flexible schedule to support operational needs
• Ability to perform the essential project, duties and responsibilities with or without accommodation
• All team members are expected to support program/project needs which could mean that you play multiple roles at Teaching Lab (i.e., project lead, support, subject matter expert, etc.).
• Travel could be required for the role.  Travel is determined based on business needs and can vary depending on partnership/contract requirements.

TEACHING LAB’S VALUES AND COMPETENCIES

• Teaching Lab seeks to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning by reaching more educators every year with the highest impact programming.

Teaching Lab’s ultimate goals are:

• Educators learn more than they would without us
• Students learn more than they would without us, in a way that cannot be predicted by race, gender, or family income
• Educators we serve say they love our approach, and they want to keep doing it to advance educational equity

All employees are expected to embrace Teaching Lab Values, which are necessary to develop Teaching Lab Competencies, which help us to achieve our Ultimate Goals.

• Collaboration & Responsive Service
• Resilient Solution-Finding
• Research & Learning With Humility
• Accountable Excellence
• Equity & Justice

REVIEW DATE

• This position opened on July 23, 2025 and will remain open until filled. All applications received between July 23, 2025 and August 1, 2025 will be reviewed by the hiring team. Any applications received after August 1, 2025 will be reviewed as needed.

$106,000 - $139,825 a year

The full salary range for this position is $106,000 - $160,335 annually. This range represents the full earning potential for the role, including opportunities for salary growth over time based on performance, tenure, and organizational budget. The anticipated hiring range for this position is $106,000 - $139,825. Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint of the full salary range ($139,825) to allow for continued growth in the role over time. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships, part-time work, and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates who possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications).

Application Terms & Conditions:

I understand that any falsification or omission of information from this Employment Application can disqualify me from employment (includes rescinding an offer of employment or if hired, employment termination).

I understand that this Employment Application is not an offer of employment.  If employed, employment is at will, and either party can terminate the employment relationship at any time.

I understand that if I am offered a conditional offer of employment, it would be contingent upon successful pre-work checks, which include references and verifications/checks for a social security number, education, employment, criminal records search (national and county), global watch list, and sex offender status.  Depending on a specific partnership/contract requirement, the criminal background check process could include fingerprinting.  At Teaching Lab’s discretion and with an individual’s signed consent, other checks could be completed based on the nature of the position.  Moreover, I understand that Teaching Lab participates in a background monitoring service that provides updates for criminal records and sex offender status.

I understand that if I am offered and accept an offer of employment, I will be required to complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9), and provide supporting documents within three days of my hire date.  Non-compliance will result in termination of employment.  Teaching Lab participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Teaching Lab is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before any action is taken against you, including terminating your employment.  Teaching Lab can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.  EVerify and Right to Work posters.

I understand that if I am offered and accept an offer of employment, if I have a need for an accommodation related to a disabling (medical) condition that the request must be communicated to People & Culture for review and approval.  All requests will be considered as part of the Americans with Disabilities Interactive Process.

I understand that if I am offered and accept an offer of employment, Teaching Lab has an expectation to be the primary employer for all employees.  Specifically, having another full-time employer in addition to full-time employment at Teaching Lab is not permitted, and no other employment or outside contracting relationship of any kind is permitted unless otherwise disclosed on the Outside Work Disclosure form and approved by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Employees who are found in violation of this expectation will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including separation from employment.

I understand that if I am offered and accept an offer of employment, I must undergo a 90 day introductory period.  During this time, appropriateness for the role and performance are evaluated.  At the end of the 90 day introductory period, Teaching Lab and/or the employee can end the employment relationship at will.

Teaching Lab has a payroll direct deposit program.  I understand that if I am employed, I am not required to enroll in Teaching Lab’s payroll direct deposit program, and I would be paid via a paper check.

I understand that if I am employed, all work materials/resources that are provided by Teaching Lab are considered property of Teaching Lab, and are solely for the use of work for Teaching Lab.

I understand that if I am employed, I will be required to sign acknowledgment of receipt and abide by all policies and procedures, requirements, and expectations as outlined in the Employee Handbook.

In relation to the position that I am applying for, I voluntarily give Teaching Lab consent to make a thorough investigation of my background, and release from liability all parties in connection with the supply and use of such information.

The submission of my application serves as acknowledgment and agreement to the above terms and conditions.