ERICA DOHERTY
Summary
Pragmatic professional with solid experience in leadership roles. Adept at implementing strategic business plans, driving growth, and improving operations. Skilled in project management, stakeholder relations, and budget planning. Collaborative and dedicated to building and leading talented and motivated individuals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LITERACY TRUST
10.2022 - Current
- Collaborate with Director of Finance on budget development, monitoring, adjusting, and providing general oversight ($1.5M)
- Oversee & lead implementation of contract (MTAC) renewal with the NYCDOE, including support of our Director of Finance in price negotiation, as well as managing an extensive NDA & Data Privacy process (“ERMA”)
- Oversee our DYCD contract registration, communication, and reporting requirements
- Oversee process and draft org responses to RFPs, often working on sudden and tight timelines to meet deadlines
- Lead cultivation with potential partners, including recruitment of NYC school, district, and division partners; private institutions, and other agency and community partners
- Sustain relationships with key Literacy Trust stakeholders, including NYC school leaders, the NYCDOE Literacy Collaborative, staff with the High Impact Tutoring Initiative, Young Men’s Initiative, the LT Board & Advisors, and funders as relevant
- Lead a small team of full and part-time staff, as well as consultants, in ensuring high-quality program delivery for intervention services, family engagement, workshop offerings, and general consulting for K-5 literacy in schools
DIRECTOR OR PROGRAM
LITERACY TRUST
11.2019 - 10.2022
- Oversaw a team of 10 Program Managers, 4 Associate Directors, and additional consultants to ensure program development and implementation for our reading intervention services was highly effective across 125+ schools
- Oversaw our program evaluation, including policy creation; methods for assessments, surveys, and overall data collection; reporting protocols; and IRB requirements
- Oversaw all content development, processes & systems, as well as implementation of 1000+ hours of workshops, hundreds of site visits and hours of online coaching, with the aim of ensuring program fidelity with 1500+ reading intervention instructors in the last four years
- Oversaw development of Literacy Trust’s proprietary online data platform, working closely with development contractors and key staff to ensure appropriate road mapping, testing, deployment
- Led and contributed to strategy on systems enhancements, organizational growth, content design & development, capacity building, budget planning ($2M), and materials procurement
- Led the initial & time-sensitive planning for launching four new programs in one year, with a goal of diversifying both our services and our funding model
- Supported the recruitment & onboarding of new organizational partners to ensure program needs were clearly identified and met
- Played the lead role in drafting proposals & creating and facilitating presentations for grants, RFPs, and contract renewals that ultimately secured $1.5 million in funds in the last two years
- Led the hiring process for open positions as relevant, improving systems accordingly as needed
- Implemented Working Groups as a normed structure across the org to ensure more effective and efficient outcomes for numerous cross-functional work streams
DIRECTOR/MANAGER OF ASSESSMENT DESIGN & CONTENT
NYCDOE OFFICE OF ASSESSMENT
08.2013 - 10.2019
- Oversaw development of large-scale assessment programs–plus related rubrics, support materials, and trainings– ultimately reviewing, editing, and writing thousands of literacy assessment items and related passages across various progams
- Managed a team of four Assessment Managers, plus 10+ part-time consultants and 50+ part-time educators
- Managed vendors to ensure milestones and fiscal agreements were upheld
- Supported my team in improving equity, access, and instructional alignment in all deliverables and ensuring all test content met qualitative and quantitative test specifications
- Collaborated, strategized, and created related docs (e.g., proposals, implication charts, project plans) for complex decisions
- Advised on various RFP processes, including strategizing, researching, planning, and cross-office collaboration related to DOE assessment procurement
- Participated in ongoing racial equity work using G. Singleton’s “Courageous Conversations” and other methods
- Collaborated with office leaders on planning and implementation strategy for various assessment programs
- Served on my division’s Advanced Literacy Working Group to ensure initiative rollouts were consistent and coherent
- Played a lead role in getting six of our World Language exams approved as NY State Ed Graduation Exams
- Planned and facilitated the hiring process for our team’s open positions as needed
1st GRADE TEACHER & GRADE LEVEL CHAIR
KIPP Infinity Elementary School
08.2011 - 06.2013
2nd GRADE TEACHER & DEAN OF INSTRUCTION
CHILDREN’S CHARTER SCHOOL
08.2007 - 06.2011
1st GRADE TEACHER
HOWELL PARK ELEMENTARY
08.2004 - 06.2007
SEMINAR LEADER
TNTP
08.2010 - 06.2011
CORPS MEMBER ADVISOR
TEACH FOR AMERICA SUMMER INSTITUTES
04.2007 - 08.2011
Education
Master of Arts - Curriculum & Instruction, Reading Specialist
Louisiana State University
09.2010
Bachelor of Arts - English
University of Iowa
05.2004
Skills
- Salesforce, Asana, Google Suite, Adobe Pro, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Canva, Publicate, Lucidchart, AHA!
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Staff Management
- Stakeholder Relations
- Operations Management
- Budgeting and Financial Management
- Contract Management
- Report Compilation
- Vendor Relations
- Data Interpretation
- Program Management
- Grant Writing
Timeline
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LITERACY TRUST
10.2022 - Current
DIRECTOR OR PROGRAM
LITERACY TRUST
11.2019 - 10.2022
DIRECTOR/MANAGER OF ASSESSMENT DESIGN & CONTENT
NYCDOE OFFICE OF ASSESSMENT
08.2013 - 10.2019
1st GRADE TEACHER & GRADE LEVEL CHAIR
KIPP Infinity Elementary School
08.2011 - 06.2013
SEMINAR LEADER
TNTP
08.2010 - 06.2011
2nd GRADE TEACHER & DEAN OF INSTRUCTION
CHILDREN’S CHARTER SCHOOL
08.2007 - 06.2011
CORPS MEMBER ADVISOR
TEACH FOR AMERICA SUMMER INSTITUTES
04.2007 - 08.2011
1st GRADE TEACHER
HOWELL PARK ELEMENTARY
08.2004 - 06.2007
Master of Arts - Curriculum & Instruction, Reading Specialist
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Arts - English
University of Iowa
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