Managing Director

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Teach For America
Richmond, VA, USA
Full-time

As the Managing Director, Central Virginia, you will maximize the reach and impact of our movement by building partnership with stakeholders, and connecting alumni to each other, to great opportunities, and to the work of Teach For America. You will report to the Executive Director, D.C. Region. 

Areas of Responsibility: 

Engage and cultivate key external stakeholders (35%)

  • Grow a sustainable, diversified local funding base that will include gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations, as well as district and local public funding
  • Cultivate and ensure the ongoing engagement and support of a portfolio of influential individual, corporate, and foundation donors
  • Develop and evolve a strategy for maintaining and growing our public support from district, local, and state sources  
  • Establish relationships with school districts and charter management organizations to place TFA educators to support maximizing scale and sustainability

Build a diverse base of community champions (35%)

  • Establish strong district partnerships with Richmond Public Schools and Petersburg Public Schools and position TFA to maximize our impact in the short and long run, and to evolve our plan as necessary given changes in the educational and political environment
  • Build political capital to ensure Teach For America becomes part of the social and educational fabric of the region
  • Partner with a local university for certification/graduate degree opportunities for TFA educators
  • Invest community leaders, others in the education space, parents and families in our work and seek opportunities for synergies across the landscape
  • Work effectively with local media outlets and national communications team to elevate our presence in Central Virginia  

Alumni cultivation, outreach, and support (30%)

  • Devise and manage a system to connect alumni to leadership opportunities and impact roles specific to the D.C. Region, while utilizing resources provided by the national team
  • Develop an onboarding scope and sequence for alumni entering the region into alumnihood. This includes connection emails, updates, welcome phone calls, and two semiannual onboarding events
  • Set vision and execute strategy to increase regional alumni completion of the annual alumni survey, leveraging the regional team and other stakeholders as needed
  • Connect alumni with LEE’s leadership development opportunities and organizing efforts
Educational Background: 
Undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university
Skills/Experience: 
  • Experienced, entrepreneurial, externally savvy leader with 7+ years’ work experience in the education or social change sector
  • Experience leading a program, setting vision, and strong orientation to strategic planning
  • TFA Alumni and knowledge of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia preferred

Skills

  • Outstanding interpersonal skills and an ability and desire to develop and maintain deep relationships with variety of diverse constituents and institutions
  • Exceptional people manager and culture builder
  • Excellent strategic thinking skills to understand and lead in a complex environment
  • Strong, proactive communicator and exceptional, humble listener
  • Strong alignment with, passion for, and commitment to the mission and values of TFA
  • Sense of urgency around accomplishing goals and objectives
  • Clarity of vision and the ability to invest others within the organization and in the broader Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia community in that vision
  • Extraordinary cultural leadership rooted in excellence and a deep love for others
  • Strong sense of self-awareness and understanding of one’s strengths and areas for development
  • Commitment to exploring issues of race, class, and privilege
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and conflict
  • Excellent judgment and sound decision-making skills
  • Willingness and ability to learn about the Virginia education landscape and establish oneself as a key partner in the local movement to fight educational inequity 

Work Demands

  • Ability to work some evenings and weekends
  • Ability to travel within Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia frequently and ability to travel to the D.C. Region 6-8 times a year
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: 
Feb 16 2019
Active Until: 
Mar 16 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit