Teach for America

Teach For America seeks a managing director of strategy and operations to manage organization-wide human assets strategic processes. This is an exciting new role focused on managing ongoing human assets processes, including compensation and headcount planning and budgeting. The managing director, strategy and operations must ensure that processes are run efficiently, meet organizational, manager and staff member needs and provide critical data and information in a timely way.

The managing director of strategy will report to the vice president of strategy and manage the senior compensation analyst. This is an ideal position for someone looking to build critical human resources processes from the ground up who has experience doing business process redesign.

The Human Assets team fuels the growth and success of Teach For America through fostering extraordinary, diverse talent. We recognize that cultivating talent at all levels of the organization is crucial to driving our mission forward, and we are committed to investing in our people to ensure that we have the skills we need to be successful today and in the future. Accordingly, we support all teams in attracting, engaging, retaining, and developing talent in order to create a high-performance organization that provides unparalleled leadership development opportunities.

Responsibilities
• Working with human assets business partners and department managers to create annual headcount plans and salary budgets and to create monthly headcount forecasts as an input into our budgeting process
• Ensuring alignment between our compensation philosophy and practices by managing and continually improving the salary quote process for new hires and our annual salary increase process
• Collaborating with the Senior Compensation Analyst and Teach For America’s senior leadership to regularly refine our compensation strategy and practices
• Managing the annual compensation review process in partnership with the Senior Compensation Analyst
• Ensuring the integrity of salary and position-based data in our HRIS systems by working with human assets business partners and department managers to conduct regular data audits
• Managing the senior compensation analyst

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites
Skills
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Prior HR and/or significant business process redesign experience preferred
• Desirable, but not required: MBA, management consulting experience, and/or compensation experience
• Minimum of 6 years of work experience preferred
• Exceptional strategic, analytical, and conceptual thinking skills
• Passion for solving problems and improving processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment and build consensus
• Ability to manage large operational systems and processes
Approach to Work
• Operates with integrity, maturity, and confidence
• Demonstrates sound judgment, responsibility, enthusiasm, and a sense of humor
• A strong commitment to Teach For America’s mission and core values
Technical Skills
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel highly preferred

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort.

Application Requirements
Please submit your resume and a one-page cover letter with your application.
Application Instructions
1) Candidates are recommended to apply for no more than 1-3 positions at a time. All applications will be thoroughly reviewed to determine if candidates should be considered for additional positions.
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