Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teach Plus is a national nonprofit whose mission is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success. The Executive Director will set the vision and execute strategies to drive local impact in Nevada, focusing on teacher leadership, advocacy, and community engagement.
Responsibilities
- Setting a Vision for Local Impact, Grounded in Strategic Clarity: Through an iterative approach, Executive Directors must be able to continuously:
- Understand and describe (both internally to the organization and to external partners) evidence and case studies of prior student outcomes improvement, the drivers that led to this success, and the patterns around those drivers as they specifically relate to advocacy and teacher leadership
- Concretely articulate the gaps between the current state of student outcomes and the aspirations of students, families, and communities, and set ambitious goals/and or strategies to close these gaps, centered on tangible outcomes for students
- In partnership with other organizations and coalition members, develop a sophisticated theory of change and theory of action/logic model around what is required to advance these student outcomes goals and the particular role Teach Plus (teachers, alumni, Executive, and institution) must play as a result
- Advancing Teacher Leadership, Voice, and Advocacy towards our Student Opportunity Mandate: In partnership with Center teams at Teach Plus and local partners, EDs must:
- Establish and continuously evolve local models for teacher learning and leadership aligned with Teach Plus’s Leadership Attribute Continuum and Policy Attributes and Competencies
- In partnership with the Center and external partners, use sophisticated data, measurement, and evaluation structures to continuously assess and improve teacher engagement models, including accountability models for managing staff towards effective execution of these programs
- Identify best practices for language, expectations, implementation, and accountability across policy and practice programs to support quality programming
- Through iterative strategic clarity work, co-create and effectively invest educators in a sophisticated annual or multi-year policy agenda, focused on advancing our Student Opportunity Mandate
- Co-create and revise contextualized local curricula and learning experiences to prepare teachers to engage directly with influential lawmakers, stakeholders, and government employees around your local policy agenda, ultimately positioning them to serve as effective leaders throughout their careers
- Leverage insights from strategic clarity and evidence-based strategies to run and participate in sophisticated local and state advocacy campaigns
- In partnership with the Communications, Research, and other External Affairs teams, develop a robust and sophisticated strategy for developing teachers as trusted messengers and elevating teacher voice in the media in alignment with your strategic clarity work and policy agenda
- Develop teacher leadership and foster cross-sector collaboration to align education with community and business needs in areas such as literacy, college and career readiness, and other potential drivers
- Creating and Stewarding a Network of Champions: In partnership with Teach Plus’ broader institutional positioning strategy, EDs must:
- Set and execute against an ambitious annual fundraising goal-ranging from $350,000 to $2M, given local context-through a highly intentional portfolio management partnership with our national External Affairs team
- Strategically create, join, and strengthen local coalitions with a clear understanding of Teach Plus’ value add
- Develop, share, and continuously refine student and teacher-centered stories that can be leveraged to invest and grow the network of champions
- Attract, retain, and steward a diverse portfolio of donors to both meet/exceed annual fundraising goals and continuously elevate Teach Plus’-and your own role in the broader ecosystem
- In partnership with Regional Development Directors and/or your team, ensure fundraising deliverables are high quality, aligned to your local strategy, and delivered to partners in a timely and effective manner
- Build a cabinet of subject matter experts, funders and/or local leaders (at times, this will be Senior Fellows and/or a Local Advisory Board) to continuously improve your executive positioning, local visibility, and access to cutting-edge insights and innovations
- In partnership with the Center, create a fundraising toolkit of resources that can be leveraged in a variety of ways for ongoing fundraising opportunities, including but not limited to: one-pagers, visuals, and language for funder emails
- Creating and Sustaining Enabling Conditions for Impact: As the highest impact level towards local impact at Teach Plus, EDs must:
- Build out, hire, retain, train, and continuously “right size” a local staffing model, grounded in their Strategic Clarity work-in particular, the role Teach Plus must play in the local ecosystem. In partnership with the People team, ensure that role profiles for staff, Senior Fellows, and/or contractors are aligned to a rigorous Vision of Excellence
- Serve as exemplary People Managers, regardless of staffing size, through a high-candor, coaching-first culture and effective communication of expectations, including but not limited to supporting direct reports to set and execute against Visions of Excellence and Annual Goals
- In partnership with the Center, co-create plans for local staff learning and development, aligned with regional strategy, annual goals, and performance management needs
- Set and manage against an annual regional expense target, partnering with the Central finance and your team to balance compliance with original budgets as well as responsiveness and iteration as strategy evolves in-year
- Grounded in our commitment to “Reimagine the Center” operate with both candor and empathy to strategically maximize Central staff and resources to increase local impact
Skills
- Experienced in systems leadership and subject matter expertise in education policy and practice
- Ability to set a vision and execute strategies for local impact
- Experience in developing teacher leadership and advocacy models
- Proven track record in fundraising, with the ability to set and execute against ambitious fundraising goals
- Strong communication skills to articulate organizational vision and strategy to internal and external partners
- Experience in managing individuals towards measurable outcomes
- Ability to leverage data sets and multiple platforms for tracking and analysis
- Understanding of financial information, including budget management
- Ability to inspire and motivate others through storytelling and compelling narratives
- Experience in building and managing a diverse team
- Willingness to travel within Nevada and work flexible hours, including nights and weekends
Benefits
- Merit-based annual bonus opportunity
- Increasing annual revenue targets
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 15 vacation days
- 3 personal days
- 5 sick days
- 13 holidays
- July break
- Winter break
- Paid parental leave
- 4-week paid sabbatical for every five years of service
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