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Manager, Institute Support

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United States
Full-time

As Manager, Institute Support, you will serve as the human assets and finance liaison for the summer training institute team for the Tulsa Institute. You will drive all spring training conference logistics, manage the logistics to hire more than 200 institute staff applicants, and assist other members of the institute team with their projects. You are detail-driven, customer-oriented and organized, excelling as a self-starter and executor. You will report to the Senior Managing Director, Institute.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Plan and communicate relevant logistics information about the institute to staff members prior to arrival
  • Manage and respond to requests in the institute inbox
  • Maintain accounting tracking system for the approximately $1.5 million institute budget
  • Provide administrative and project support for institute management team members, including and managing a part-time administrative support employee
  • Manage logistics for 3-4 spring conferences ranging from 30 to 100 participants
  • Coordinate hiring process for more than 300 institute staff applicants
  • Manage additional special projects as determined by institute management team
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree required
Skills/Experience: 
  • 2-6 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 10 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

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
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 2 2018
Active Until: 
Mar 2 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit