Managing Director, People Partner

🕒 4 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $90k - $139.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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Teach For America

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $3.7M Grant on 2017-11

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Teach For America is an education-focused organization dedicated to ensuring that every young person receives a relevant, engaging education and has the opportunity to choose their own future. Through its teacher corps, Ignite Fellowship, and alumni programs, it builds transformational relationships between students and educators, fostering leadership and social change. TFA aims to impact students in under-resourced communities by recruiting and training teachers, prioritizing diversity, and tackling educational inequities.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted strategic and day-to-day advisor to directors, managing directors, and selected senior leaders • Advise on talent management, team effectiveness, staff development, employee experience, organizational design, workforce planning, and team structures • Build trusted relationships, understand team dynamics, identify opportunities, and proactively address talent needs • Coach managers through hiring, onboarding, performance development, performance improvement, change management, and compensation cycles • Facilitate leadership development sessions and learning experiences with People Team partners • Connect assigned client groups with appropriate People resources and expertise • Coach leaders through performance concerns, employee relations matters, workplace challenges, difficult conversations, and policy interpretation • Partner with Employee Relations colleagues to escalate and resolve complex or sensitive matters • Contribute client-group insights to talent programs, policies, and systems • Implement performance development, onboarding, annual talent, and manager enablement initiatives • Gather feedback, identify trends, and recommend continuous improvements • Analyze engagement, retention, promotions, and exit data to support talent decisions • Support special projects and cross-functional People Team initiatives • Collaborate across the People Team to provide consistent, high-quality staff and leader support

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10 years of progressive Human Resources experience, preferably in Business Partnering, HR Consulting, Organizational Development, or Human Resources Generalist roles • Experience partnering with people leaders to solve talent and organizational challenges • Knowledge of employee relations, performance management, talent development, compensation, organizational effectiveness, and change management • Ability to build trust and credibility with leaders at multiple levels • Strong judgment and comfort navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational change • Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting ambitious deadlines • Strong organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills • Commitment to Teach For America’s mission, core values, and diversity, equity, and inclusion • Experience managing or mentoring others (preferred) • SHRM, PHR, or HCM certification (preferred) • Experience with Workday or comparable HRIS platforms (preferred) • Strong facilitation and coaching skills (preferred) • Project management and process improvement capabilities (preferred) • Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform talent decisions (preferred) • Solutions-oriented approach, sound judgment, integrity, and high ownership (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible location / Remote/Home Office • Unparalleled opportunities for essential development opportunities • Opportunity to grow every year • High-performing team led by an effective and people-centered manager • Equitable and competitive total rewards package • Opportunities for learning and growth • Equal employment opportunities and non-discrimination commitment