As the Managing Director of Alumni Impact, you will play a critical role in catalyzing our alumni community towards collective action with our students, families, and the broader community through an anti-oppressive liberatory lens and culturally responsive leadership. You will lead and manage a team of two people. You will create sustaining systems and structures for accountability and communication for the alumni sub-team. You will continue to fortify our current partnerships with other influential organizations across our ecosystem and initiate new opportunities for partnership and impact in the work of educational equity. As a team leader, you will exemplify both our Teach For America and Las Vegas Valley cultural values while influencing and leading in our region.
- Create a clear vision, strategic plan, and metrics to reach the mission, vision, and charge of the Teach For America - Las Vegas Valley (TFA-LVV) region, program continuum and alumni work specifically to exceed the National Breakthrough Goals and aligned to our regional 2025 Plan.
- Manage and coach the Director, Alumni Impact and Manager, Alumni Impact from a culturally responsive leadership lens towards reaching their individual and broader Alumni sub-team goals
- Manage the Alumni budget to ensure the fiscal health and expansive innovative opportunities for corp members and alumni
- Unify and create a system of accountability for recruitment, outreach, and collective action strategies
- Manage timesheet submission and expenses for each member of the Alumni Impact team
- Manage team execution against collective and individual goals and metrics through performance management systems through developing team meeting scope and lead alumni leadership team meetings including quarterly progress to goal stepbacks
- Create and manage an advisory body of TFA-LVV alumni in roles of influence to bring diverse perspectives to inform TFA-LVV strategy and goal
- Manage existing key partnerships with Leadership for Educational Equity, Clark County Education Association, and Opportunity 180
- 6+ years of work experience required
- 2+ years of managing teams preferred
- Demonstrated results as a teacher preferred
- Demonstrated experience in adult facilitation
- Demonstrated results in vision-setting, strategy creation, and leading culture
- Strong/Exemplary experience creating and managing systems (3+ years of experience)
- Strong evidence of building relationships (BRIO) and culturally competent leadership
- Strong understanding of the Las Vegas Valley educational ecosystem preferred
Work Demands
- Some evenings and weekends
Skills/Dispositions
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong ability to motivate and influence people and teams and able to bring joy
- Orient towards and demonstrate regional cultural aspirations and organizational Core Values
- Orient towards diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and culturally responsive leadership
- Strong analytical skills, ability to study array of data to draw accurate conclusions and to inform the team management approach
- Track record of coaching and developing staff members (adult design and facilitation skills; understanding of adult learning principles preferred) and building a strong and inclusive team culture
- Strong decision-making and prioritization skills
- Strong aptitude in cultivating internal and external relationships while laterally managing them toward outcomes