Director, Community Engagement & Partnership Innovation

Build relationships and thrive in collaboration

• You are a catalytic relationship builder. You can quickly forge strong, trusting relationships with diverse sets of people and readily inspire others to action. You are naturally empathetic, seek to discover the motivations of people, and tailor your messages, actions and interactions accordingly.
• You are a compelling communicator, and inspire others to action. You have strong presence and maturity that engenders respect and facilitates strong partnership. You have a robust internal toolkit for influencing and investing others to get on board with your ideas -- internally and externally -- and are versatile in your leadership so that you effectively catalyze action. You have a proven ability to cultivate relationships toward successful outcomes, and can find common ground and build consensus even in the face of competing priorities, particularly in diverse settings, whether working with teammates or external stakeholders.
• You bias towards collaboration and collective impact. You deeply believe in the power of team, and thrive off of working in close partnership and collaboration with your peers to strengthen your work and achieve shared outcomes. You act consistently with humility, curiosity, empathy, and an unwavering orientation towards what is needed for the success of the team as you and your team come up against challenges. You are fueled by forging communities in pursuit of something bigger, and have an understanding of how individual players across an ecosystem can work together to achieve collective outcomes, likely from prior experience.

Plan strategically & execute effectively

• You create clarity from complexity. You are motivated by creating clarity and direction amidst ambiguity. You are creative as you pursue game-changing breakthroughs, and are skilled at managing complexity. 
• You are a superb executor and project manager. You have a proven track record of managing multiple and complex initiatives simultaneously with multiple stakeholders, and achieving results. You understand how your daily actions align with your longer-term goals and can balance between the two, regardless of the day-to-day chaos you might find yourself in. You enjoy creating systems to monitor progress toward goals and prioritizing actions for yourself and others to meet them.
• You are flexible, innovative, and tenacious in pursuit of your goals. You are comfortable with risk, don’t get overwhelmed easily, and persevere when faced with obstacles. You take personal responsibility for the success of your work -- whether it requires creating strategy, setting up others to execute effectively, or managing back-end processes in pursuit of your goals. You adjust course and pull learnings along the way. You persist with optimism towards achieving your and your team’s desired outcomes. 

How you’ll spend your time-- 
Project manage stakeholder cultivation campaigns (40%)

• Articulate a holistic engagement campaign of a broad set of community stakeholders to enlist and invest in TFA’s contributions and vision for impact in our community
• Strategically leverage the Chief Community Impact Officer, Managing Director of Partnerships, Executive Director, and other Bay Area team members to steward and engage key stakeholders, including preparing these individuals for successful meetings
• Integrate alumni and partnership team partner engagement strategies towards a cohesive experience for our stakeholders, and towards successful campaign execution
• Collaborate effectively with heads of alumni and partnerships team, investing, inspiring, and laterally managing team members towards successful campaign execution
• Build out the strategy for a project that will enlist alumni champions as ambassadors, and critical contributors to campaigns/ initiatives that will advance the work of TFA in the Bay Area
• Support with the design and implementation of a portion/strand of our Bay Ed Summit, our largest convening for alumni, partners, corps members, and other community stakeholders

Build relationships with community stakeholders (20%)

• As part of executing engagement campaigns effectively, manage a portfolio of community stakeholders across the Bay Area. This may include civic, policy/advocacy, and other community leaders and organizations.
• Identify and prioritize highest-impact opportunities for collaboration, and create project plans to implement 

Project manage innovative partnership projects (30%)

• Work closely with Chief Community Impact Officer and Managing Director of Partnership to identify, enlist, and invest a small set of school partners to pilot deeper partnership strategies to fuel school-wide progress and corps member impact
• Compose tailored narratives and pitches for high-stakes meetings with school and community partners, including proposals and other correspondence as needed
• Project manage emerging deeper partnership pilots, researching best practices and lessons learned from the national education community, defining and assessing impact, laterally managing across several teams to achieve key milestones
• Work across several teams -- collaborating with Chief Community Impact Officer, Chief Program Officer, Managing Director of Partnership, and Managing Director of Alumni -- in implementing all key workstreams to achieve desired impact of each deep partnership initiative

Contribute to broader organizational vision, mission, and culture (10%)

• Interview, select, and matriculate incoming corps members
• Engage in regional learning through attending meetings and professional development opportunities
• Staff Teach For America - Bay Area events