National Program Director (Central Regions)

Job Details

Job Location:   Reading Partners National - Oakland, CA

Position Type:   Full-Time

Salary Range:   $87687.00 - $109610.00 Salary

Job Category:   Program Management

Description

The high level:

The National Program Director (NPD) provides strategic leadership, development, and oversight of a national portfolio of regions, ensuring the successful implementation of Reading Partners’ program with fidelity and excellence. The NPD plays a pivotal role in guiding and supporting regional Program Managers (PMs) through coaching, training, and performance management. This role requires close collaboration with regional Executive Directors (EDs) to achieve programmatic goals and uphold the highest standards of student impact. National Program Directors are passionate about professional development for AmeriCorps members, program managers (PMs), executive directors (EDs), and tutors, working to ensure that each is able to oversee, manage, and implement the program to the highest standards and maximize outcomes for students. The NPD for this position will manage our Tulsa and North Texas portfolio, which represents our central regions.

• As the organization reimagines direct service programming, the NPD will be responsible for a portfolio of regions ensuring they can meet their program goals for students, professional development for a variety of program users, and expanding family engagement opportunities at Reading Partners.
• NPD reports directly to the Managing Director of National Program and is a member of the National Program team. The NPD will have dotted-line supervision of Program Managers in their regions, working closely with EDs to ensure program performance is met.
• Oversee regional program implementation across multiple regions and sites to ensure enrollment, quality, and impact goals for program are met. The NPD is ultimately responsible for programmatic regional outcomes across their portfolio.

The NPD is a resource mobilizer and relationship-building expert and is savvy at leading and leveraging people, processes, and policy. They will work within a team of three NPDs supporting up to two regions each. This role will entail periodic travel to regions.

This position is remote but requires candidates to reside within one of Reading Partners’ operating locations, including North Texas (Dallas and Fort Worth), Tulsa, OK, Charleston, SC, Denver, CO, Twin Cities, MN

What you’ll do:

Lead a team of Regional Program Managers focused on quality regional implementation of the Reading Partners program, yielding measurable results for regional impact including serving as a regional literacy program expert, conducting student data analysis and action planning, and directly managing Program Managers. 

• 85% of students in portfolio meeting their literacy growth goal 
• Meet student enrollment goal of 1,440 enrolled in portfolio
• Meet student served goal of 1,368 students served in portfolio
• 85% of portfolio sites meeting quality standards objectives at key intervals throughout the year
• Meet the session goal of students served on average receiving 30-32 sessions delivered to students across portfolio of regions
• Provide feedback and direct course correction when a region is not meeting programmatic goals for implementation or student outcomes
• Meet weekly 1:1 with each PM in portfolio across multiple regions
• Meet monthly 1:1 with each ED in portfolio across multiple regions
• Facilitate monthly meeting with each PM and their ED in portfolio across multiple regions
• Facilitate bi-weekly meeting with PM team in regions where there is more than one PM
• Conduct quarterly skip-level meetings with ACMs in each PM portfolio across multiple regions

Design and create program professional development for a variety of internal and external stakeholders to be successful in their roles at Reading Partners.

• Design and support thoughtful and complete professional development scope and sequence with training materials for AmeriCorps members from orientation to the end of the service year
• Design and support a thoughtful and complete professional development program for full-time staff from orientation and in ongoing opportunities that build skills of tenured staff and those new to the program manager role
• Lead and facilitate peer learning circles that result in regional program staff reporting a connection to others doing their work outside of their region

Lead data analysis and progress monitoring across sites in a portfolio of regions that translates to student outcomes and school satisfaction with Reading Partners programming

• Lead data-driven conversations with each PM in the portfolio and across a community of practice that result in PMs effectively translating data into action for student learning and effective communication with school leaders.
• Act as a literacy coach for EDs to help them understand literacy data in their regions for school and district communications
• Data monitoring of regional trends, data completion, IRP implementation, progress monitoring, progress towards internal and external goals and program benchmarks

Lead regional implementation strategy of family engagement opportunities in regions

• Collaborate with members of the national team to train and support regional program staff to implement components of Family Engagement Powered by Reading Partners
• Collaborate with NPDs and each ED in portfolio to develop a strategic approach to family engagement in the region that increases the number of families access to literacy materials

Other duties as needed.

How you’ll do it:

Education Expertise: 

• Have a deep understanding of Reading Partners’ program models, literacy trends, and the current educational climate. 
• Understand how to assess, diagnose, and develop support plans to coach regional program staff in all areas of program implementation and quality. 
• Demonstrate a deep passion for social justice and the educational success of all students.
• Be the program and curriculum expert for PMs and EDs in a portfolio of regions 
• Demonstrate an ability to assess student performance using observations, analyze data, and create subsequent strategies aimed at increasing student learning and achievement. 
• Create impactful and collaborative action plans with regional stakeholders to move the needle on learning outcomes.  

Relationship Development and Communication:

• Demonstrate ability to quickly garner influence, and to build deep, trusting relationships both locally and remotely with peers, direct reports, managers, and EDs
• Be able to set up strong systems for communication and messaging, tailor communication to audiences, and contextualize messaging. 
• Demonstrate an ability to break down complex topics for a variety of audiences and ensure they are able to communicate these topics without you present. 
• Model highly effective communication practices that ultimately lead to achieving results through others. 
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively in all modalities and settings ranging from phone calls to webinars to in-person training sessions. 
• Effectively convey needs, outcomes, and next steps all aimed at supporting regions to implement our programs and curriculum with high fidelity.

Leadership and Management:

• Provide ongoing coaching, support, and training to a portfolio of regions to ensure strong student outcomes and regional programmatic goals are met or exceeded
• Provide timely feedback in remote management settings that address successes and challenges across regional portfolio
• Ability to manage in all directions and work with regional ED leadership for accountability and action
• Work with Regional Operations to create an action plan as needed for regions identified as off track or needing improvement
• Develop and maintain scalable training and knowledge bases for one-time and on-going training
• Work with MDNP to share aggregate data and feedback, recommend changes or needs related to program, curriculum, lessons, books, RP Connects platform, quality standards, and fidelity guidelines based on regional use of the tools.

Our Benefits:

Reading Partners’ compensation and benefits programs are designed to attract, motivate, engage, and retain top talent to propel our mission forward. We aim to set salaries based on objective, external, high-quality market data. Our salaries are adjusted for candidates in different geographic regions. We do our very best to ensure that we’re bringing our best offer - therefore we do not engage in salary negotiations.

• This is a full-time, exempt, and salaried position. The pay range for this position is $87,690 - $109,613. 
• We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flex spending accounts, generous paid time off, commuter benefits, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and currently a 403(b) match option.
• Professional development reimbursement fund up to $1,000 per year.
• Unlimited or Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) benefits for regular employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week. In addition to paid holidays, we close our offices for one week~ in early July and between Christmas and New Year's Day. 
• We offer well-being benefits like Spring Health which provides easy access to therapy, coaching, and wellness resources. We also offer Carrot to help staff navigate inclusive hormonal health, fertility, gender-affirming services, and family-building benefits.

The other things you need to know:

• This role is remote-based
• Travel: This position requires up to 3 regional visits per quarter to our North Texas (Dallas and Fort Worth, TX) or Tulsa, OK site. 

What’s Next?

If you’re interested in joining our Reading Partners team, please submit the following application materials to our online job posting:

• A cover letter describing your interest in Reading Partners and how your past experience has prepared you for this role. 
• Resume

Reading Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualifications

About you!

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• Have 3+ years as a leader in an education organization, and 2+ years working with elementary-aged students in an educational setting
• Direct management experience related to literacy work in schools
• Experience managing a layered team toward achieving literacy or educational outcomes in a dotted line or direct management role
• Have knowledge of and experience with literacy assessments, teaching strategies, and student data analysis that yield positive outcomes for students
• Have excellent computer skills, including Google applications and data management
• Are committed to improving education equity and access 
• Demonstrate a commitment to fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Display a deep belief in our mission and root your work in our core values.
• Ability to prove eligibility to work legally in the U.S. and that you are at least 18 years of age.

Bonus Points if you:

• Are an AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, or other national service alum/alumna
• Have experience working in launch or growth phases of organizations