Director, Alumni Network

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Teach For America
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Full-time

Teach For America – Phoenix seeks a Director of Alumni Network to develop and execute a strategy to catalyze the potential of our over 1,000 strong alumni community in Arizona towards achieving educational equity. 

The Director, Alumni Network will harness the power of our network by continuously engaging our alumni base, utilizing their experiences and expertise, and establish meaningful opportunities for our alumni to connect and collaborate. The Director will be charged with crafting a vision and strategy for the alumni experience in Arizona that focuses on three main priorities: 1) deepen connectivity in our network, 2) create spaces for the network to learn, innovate, and take action together, and 3) promote career and leadership pathways that have the greatest potential for impact on educational equity in Arizona

The ideal candidate will be someone who is energized by establishing strong relationships, making connections between community stakeholders, creating structure, and empowering others to work together towards a common goal. This will be one of the most external-facing roles on our team and it is essential that this director sees themselves as a constant, professional steward of Teach For America’s work and theory of change. 

The Director, Alumni Network will serve on the Program Continuum Management Team and report directly to the Vice President, Program Continuum

Areas of Responsibility: 

Manage and Support Alumni Leadership Groups

  • Cultivate and support diverse and cross-sector alumni interested in career pathways focused in prioritized Regional focus areas.
  • Catalyze the leadership of the Arizona Alumni Leadership Board and The Collective to help fuel and embody our member-led movement
  • Manage and facilitate relationship between Arizona Alumni Leadership Board and the Phoenix Region, and ensure alignment to Phoenix vision and priorities
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration between these groups and other Regional stakeholders, including Staff and Regional and Associate Boards

Strategic Communications and Engagement

  • Manage and lead the regional execution towards the Alumni Survey window
  • Build strong relationships with a diverse set of alumni across Arizona through one-on-one cultivation and whole group meetings
  • Manage and develop relationships with organizations and institutions that provide direct professional development opportunities for our alumni base. This includes the management of our ASU fellowship and other school leadership pathways.
  • Partner with Manager, Grants and Communication and Manager, Regional Support and Communications to create a clear and actionable communications strategy that will keep the region’s broad alumni base informed of key issues in educational equity and opportunities for them to engage meaningfully.
  • Source alumni and key stories to be featured in regional communications and social media

Alumni Team and Strategy Management

  • Manage the Manager of Alumni Network and ensure priorities and execution align with the desired continuum experience and outcomes. Specifically, manage them towards building a successful vision and execution of the 25th Anniversary Summit in Fall 2019.
  • Partner with other regional sub-teams to manage and support alumni event-related communication, planning and execution
  • Collaborate with the Program Continuum Team to create a strategy that will align messaging and support from pre-corps through alumnihood
  • Engage in the Program Continuum Management Team to drive the direction and management of the entire Program Continuum team.

Regional and Organizational Stewardship

  • Attend and participate in functional team meetings, all staff meetings, and committees
  • Participate in matriculation and selection commitments
  • Attend and participate in corps member professional development sessions
  • Act as a positive and inclusive team-wide culture leader
Skills/Experience: 
  • 5-7 years professional experience
  • Experience building senior level external relationships
  • Teach For America alum preferred
  • Community organizing experience preferred 

Work Demands

  • Some weekend and evening work required
  • Ability to travel to in-person meetings across the city and state

Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proven ability to develop and cultivate beneficial internal and external relationships
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: 
Jun 29 2018
Active Until: 
Jul 29 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit