Manager, 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: New York, NY
Report to: Senior Manager, Program
Supervises: Dependent on the project, the Manager, Program may be a Project Leader with project team supervision and leadership development responsibilities
Compensation: The full salary range for this position is $80,000 - $121,007 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 $80,000 - $105,529. Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint of the full salary range ($105,529) 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: Instructional Design: Designing and facilitating effective and engaging professional learning experiences for adults. Teacher Coaching: Improving student outcomes by engaging in coaching inquiry cycles with teachers. Instructional Expertise: Deep knowledge of the science of reading and grades PK-2 ELA HQIM.
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 Manager, Program collaborates with others within the Program division and across the organization to meet Teaching Lab’s programmatic goals, takes ownership of the organization’s systems and processes, and implements them consistently and successfully. This role is critical in Teaching Lab’s mission to positively impact educator practice in service of increased student learning.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary responsibilities for the Manager, Program include:
- Implement excellent programmatic services
- Implement programmatic projects 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.
- Acts 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 Coach Developer, Client Partnership Manager, Instructional Designer, Subject Matter Expert, or Coach/Facilitator on project teams. However, given time, capacity, competencies, skills, and interests, the Senior Manager, Program could hold multiple other roles on project teams (e.g., Project Lead.)
- Implement and maintain the project plans for assigned projects; if needed, identify needs for consultant support to complete projects on time and with high-quality
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills, time management, and workflow management while attending to the diverse needs of partners and keeping a radically responsive orientation
- Support the development of systems, tools, and processes to support effective and efficient implementation of services to scale Teaching Lab’s partnerships and impact over time
- Maintain positive and responsive relationships with clients and other project team members
- Support with contract renewals 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
- Participate in the hiring process 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 Senior Manager, Program role which is also transferable and critical for other roles
- Perform other duties as assigned by Program department leadership and/or Executive Team.
