Manager, Los Angeles Institute Support

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Teach For America
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Full-time

As Manager, Institute Support, you will serve as the human assets and finance liaison for the summer training institute team. You will drive all spring staff training conference operations, manage the logistics to hire approximately 50 seasonal institute staff applicants, and assist on other institute team projects. You are detail-driven, customer-oriented, an excellent communicator, and organized, excelling as a self-starter and executor. You will report to the Managing Director, Talent and Operations.

Areas of Responsibility: 

Team Support (30%)

  • Manage and respond to requests in the institute email inbox
  • Provide administrative and project support for institute management team members
  • Maintain the accounting tracking system for the approximately $1 million institute budget

Staffing and Training Logistics (30%)

  • Manage logistics for five spring staff training conferences ranging from 10 to 60 participants
  • Coordinate hiring process for more than 200 institute staff applicants
  • Plan and communicate relevant logistics information about the institute to staff members prior to arrival

Management and Institute Projects (30%)

  • Manage two seasonal administrative support employees during the summer
  • Create project plans for summer projects and workstreams and manage two others to execute on those workstreams
  • Manage additional special projects as determined by institute management team

Other Regional Duties (10%)

  • Support broader regional and organizational priorities, such as selecting and matriculating new corps members
  • Participate in regional staff activities and initiatives including, but not limited to, all-staff meetings, retreats, and stepbacks throughout the year
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree required
Skills/Experience: 
  • 2+ years of work experience required
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel required

Work Demands

  • Ability to navigate facilities
  • Ability to transport and set up materials (up to 50 pounds)
  • Ability to work on-site at a university for six weeks (including evenings and weekends) throughout the summer

Skills

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Outstanding organizational ability and detail orientation
  • Ability to make timely decisions and demonstrate good judgment
  • Ability to tailor approach toward the perspective of others
How to Apply: 

https://teachforamerica.secure.force.com/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x0V0000...

Job Function: 
Program / Project Management

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Website: 
teachforamerica.org
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Mar 24 2018
Active Until: 
Apr 24 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit