Humanities Solutions Lead Jobs

About The Organization

The Black Teacher Collaborative (BTC) believes in the genius and beauty of Black children and the unique role of Black Teachers in cultivating their gifts. BTC seeks to ensure that all Black children will have challenging, affirming, and innovative learning environments staffed by a critical mass of Black educators equipped to maximize their shared racial identity to push students’ academic growth, sociopolitical consciousness, and socio-emotional well-being. BTC aspires to be the leading expert and service provider for supporting the success of Black k-12 public schools while expanding our impact across the American South and to urban centers serving high concentrations of Black students.

Black Teacher Collaborative is a social entrepreneurial venture providing professional development, products, and services for Black educators working in Black schools. BTC’s work centers around our Black Liberatory Pedagogical framework that seeks to represent the ideological and instructional manifestations of the concept of education as a vehicle for liberation for Black people as represented across the Black teaching tradition translated into a 21st context. BTC’s work and pedagogical framework are grounded in the socio-political theory of Black Self-Determination. We marry our pedagogical framework with a critical interrogation of mainstream best practices and emerging innovations in teaching and learning, Black child development, and the spectrum of disciplines that intersect with Black children and Black educators' educational experiences.

THE ROLE

BTC is seeking a Humanities Solutions Lead to join us at a pivotal time in the organization’s growth where we are launching several impactive programs that are poised to transform how we educate Black children. The person in this role will be responsible for the ongoing program design of our Humanities programming, including our literacy initiative, providing expertise in learning design and teacher coaching. The Humanities Solutions Lead will work with expert content consultants in ELA and Social Studies. As BTC grows its impact, this role will be critical to ensuring that systems are in place to ensure that cohesiveness and quality are consistent throughout all of our solutions. The Humanities Design Lead will report directly to the Director of Innovation and Program Design.

THE CANDIDATE

We are looking for an experienced ELA, Literacy, or Social Studies educator with deep content knowledge, experience in designing, learning, and project management. You must be a creative problem solver who can contribute ideas and solutions to the team. As the Humanities Solutions Lead, you will serve as BTC’s internal content expert when communicating with our partners. You will also manage a design team of consultants. Your ability to think conceptually and creatively yet manage tactically will be critical to your success in this role.

Primary Responsibilities

Content Development & Program Design

• Support knowledge management efforts to gather evidence on best practices and lessons learned to improve future programming.
• Lead the design process to develop high-quality, content-specific programs, services, or learning experiences aligned with BTC’s Black Liberatory Pedagogical Elements.
• In collaboration with members of the P&I team and the Research and Policy team, conduct research in Humanities content areas to stay abreast of best practices in the field and to inform new and existing BTC initiatives.
• Help conceptualize solutions focused on ELA, Literacy, and Social Studies instruction grounded in Black Liberatory Pedagogy.
• Design tools, handouts, and other learning resources for dissemination to teachers and leaders

Project Management

• Manage the day-to-day aspects of developing programs, services, and learning experiences.
• Lead the design of impactive ELA, Literacy, and Social Studies learning experiences for teachers and leaders aligned with BTC’s Black Liberatory Pedagogical Elements.
• Along with the Program Manager, execute a plan to meet all content, budget, and schedule requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Make presentations to school partners that clearly articulate the value of our work
• Serve as the “lead coach” for our teachers by identifying and correcting for any gaps in our coaching process
• Contribute to the proposal and grant development process

Team Management

• Identify and secure the services of high-quality ELA/Literacy and Social Studies content design experts
• Manage a team of content expert designers

Bodies Of Knowledge/Requirements

• Online learning effective practices
• Deep knowledge of Humanities K-12 teaching and learning
• Required travel to regional, organization-wide meetings at least 4 times per year (while travel is required for this role, due to COVID 19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice)
• Knowledge of Black Liberatory Education
• Learning Design
• At least five years of demonstrated success as a classroom teacher working with Black children
• Design Thinking

Skills

• Proven ability to hold self and others to achieving project milestones and goals
• K-12 curriculum development
• Superior writing, oral communication and public speaking skills
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
• Program and Learning Design
• Teacher training or coaching
• Knowledge of Google Suite productivity apps
• Adult learning facilitation

MINDSETS/CHARACTERISTICS

• High level of intellectual curiosity
• Deep belief and commitment to a Black ideology of self-determination and Black children
• Creativity
• Agile/flexible
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Solutions oriented
• Courageous and Adaptive
• Thinks systematically about challenges and solutions

THRIVES IN/UNDER

• Collaborative environments where the best solutions require input from a variety of perspectives that can result in unstructured ideation. Where you guide towards structured workable solutions and innovations
• Creating and leading towards results in a creative environment where bold thinking is encouraged and valued
• Exploring solutions to complex challenges with limited context where you must quickly assess, analyze and develop possible solutions from which to move work forward

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