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Urban Teachers is seeking a Resident Onboarding & Cultivation Specialist to help build the first teacher preparation program in the nation that guarantees the effectiveness of its teachers. This person will work closely with the Executive Director and the Baltimore Urban Teachers Site Team to assist in the oversight of all aspects of implementing the Urban Teachers Baltimore, MD program. This position will play an instrumental role in ensuring the success of our current and future cohorts, and supporting the expansion of the Urban Teachers presence in the Baltimore region.

About Urban Teachers

Urban Teachers prepares highly effective teachers who will significantly accelerate student achievement in the nation’s highest-need schools. We accomplish this by recruiting outstanding candidates, equipping them with state-of-the-art training, and linking their certification to their students’ performance outcomes. Founded in 2009, Urban Teachers is a new organization on the cutting edge of urban school reform by virtue of its link between teacher effectiveness and certification eligibility. Urban Teachers has offices in Baltimore and in Washington, DC. Additional regions will join Urban Teachers in the next year. Learn more about us by visiting the us here http://urbanteachers.org.

Title: Resident Onboarding & Cultivation Specialist

Your Managers: Sr. Director of Selection and Admissions and Director of Site Operations

Headline: Resident Onboarding Specialists (ROS) are responsible for driving strategies and projects related to incoming cohort members including interviews, matriculation, onboarding and transition planning, school placement, culture and communication. They are responsible for managing the experience from the moment an applicant is invited to the last stage of the selection process to their arrival to Summer Institute to ensure our cohort members feel part of a strong, inclusive community. The Recruitment Onboarding Specialist also plans and manages their site’s Summer Institute.

Buckets of Responsibility:

Regional Recruitment and Cultivation:

• As needed, support the Recruitment Team and local Recruiter with local recruitment events and campaigns, including those at schools where we currently place teachers
• As needed, support the Recruitment Team and local Recruiter with 1-3 events per month, not to exceed 5 hours.
• Lead local engagement nights
• Manage participant Cultivation Ambassadors

Selection and Admissions:

• Participate, staff and lead monthly site-based Final Interview Days
• Prepare final interview materials
• Train local staff for Final Interview Days
• Manage participant Final Interview Day Ambassadors
• Schedule phone calls with all priority partner applications who pass the final review

Matriculation and Onboarding:

• Serve as the main point of contact for all incoming cohort members
• Manage an aligned strategy for the onboarding of incoming cohort members, create a year-long scope and sequence of onboarding tasks, training, and onboarding systems, and track progress towards goals
  
  • Create a comprehensive onboarding guide to introduce cohort members to city and outline the expectations to successfully matriculate
  • Set vision and direction of communication of incoming cohort members and create a year-long communications plan
  • Coordinate experiences (Job Shadow Days, Cultivation Ambassadors) to connect incoming cohort members with region
  • Create and execute a year-long cultivation plan (onboarding website, onboarding messages, social media engagement, cultivation packages)
  
  
• Laterally manage site team as they support incoming cohort members through the onboarding and matriculation processes
• Transcript Review for Secondary ELA and Secondary Math incoming residents
  

Data Management and Analysis:

• Manage cohort data in Salesforce, ensuring clean and accurate inputs
• Execute and improve onboarding strategy through data
  
• Manage and track expenditures for cultivation budget
• Manage and track expenditures for SI 2020 budget

Summer Institute:

• Coordinate and finalize partnerships with institutes of higher education to acquire dedicated classroom space, dining, access to general facilities and room and board for 100-125 residents for a duration of six weeks.
  
• Build partnerships with school partners and organizations throughout Baltimore to solidify placements for Summer A’s and B’s. Manage administrative tasks, including MOUs, hiring documents, and work with site team to pair Summer A’s with Summer B’s.
  
• Lead all aspects of planning Summer Institute with Assistant Directors, DCF and LCF, including, but not limited to, project management, covening and coordinating efforts of cross functional teams and managing a budget.
  
• Co-manage Summer Mentor Directors
  
• Work with development to solidify funding to support Summer Institute
  
• Manage move-in and move-out logistics, along with Residential Life. This includes communicating with staff, faculty, mentors and higher education institute.
  
• Coordinate and manage the following events: closing ceremony, hiring fairs and half-way day celebration
  
• Work alongside ADs to solve any Summer As or Bs problems at summer site and draft weekly Monday message
  
• Create and manage residents’ placement and registration surveys
  
• Manage the early placement and placement process for Summer As
  

Ongoing Tasks:

Weekly

• Respond to emails and calls from incoming cohort members
• Conduct final screening for pre-approval applicants
• Engage in Slack channels and update onboarding website
• Post on UT Baltimore instagram page
  

Bi-weekly:

• Team meetings and check-ins with manager
  
  • Monitor Participant Ambassador activities and confirm participation for upcoming events (Job Shadow Days, Webinars, Final Interview, Phone Banks, Connecting Participants to Candidates)
  • Monitor cultivation strategy and track progress to goals
  • Share recruitment numbers with site team
    
  
  

Monthly:

• Prepare for final interview days
• Manage site for recruitment activities including staff emails, ED Texts, and phone banks
• Assign program of study placements for newly signed incoming cohort members
• Host one Welcome Webinar and Office Hour
• Create Onboarding Messages and Assignments
• Lead ROS Check In meetings with identified needs

• Provide recruitment numbers with site team
  

Seasonal Tasks:

• Review and update strategies for upcoming cohort year (cultivation and Summer Institute)
• Refresh all submission forms and welcome packet
• Attend all Summer Institute
• Attend cultivation retreat usually in August

Management Responsibilities:

• Participant Ambassadors
• Summer Mentor Directors
• Summer Mentors

Organizational Engagement:

Cultivation team meetings (monthly), Site Team meetings, all required staff retreats

Preferred skill set

• We are seeking highly-driven individuals who can thrive in a fast- paced urban setting. Successful candidates will have a deep belief in the Urban Teachers mission and also have the following skills and qualifications:
• Proven ability to set and meet high goal targets
• Teaching experience preferred, but not required, preferably in a high-need setting
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to inspire others
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience with project management, planning, and implementation
• Evidence of sound judgment and ability to problem solve

As an Employer of National Service, Urban Teachers recognizes the unique skills of national service alumni. Accordingly, AmeriCorps alumni, returned Peace Corps volunteers, and other national service participants are encouraged to apply to our job openings.

Urban Teachers does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or national and ethnic origin in hiring and employment, nor in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and other programs.

Our VALUES:

WE SERVE CHILDREN: Children are the center of our work. We rely on the communities we serve to guide and inform the decisions we make about our curriculum, program and practice.

WE ARE AN ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION: We are committed to ongoing knowledge seeking, reflection, and action to deliberately oppose racism. We are an inclusive organization that values the diversity of people, backgrounds and perspectives. We are active allies who pursue justice in the communities in which we live and work.

WE ARE LIFE-LONG LEARNERS: We are dedicated to continuous improvement, innovation and excellence. We strive to be on the forefront of what is best for teacher education and students based on research and practice.

WE VALUE EACH OTHER: We value each other as whole people. We are servant leaders who foster a supportive working environment that is empathetic and caring, and values direct, constructive feedback. It is our VISION that every student in the United States is taught by committed, well-prepared, culturally competent teachers.

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