Teach For America

Assistant to the Executive Director (Connecticut)

Position Summary

We are seeking an assistant to the executive director to provide administrative support for the executive director and development team, enabling the region to move more efficiently and effectively toward reaching its ambitious goals. The assistant will report directly to the executive director.

Founded in 2006, Teach For America – Connecticut has more than 160 corps members reaching more than 9,000 students in Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford. An additional 140 alumni are working from all sectors to close the achievement gap in the state. The region is supported by a funding base of $2.9 million, and regional staff members work to train and support corps members, continually strengthen relationships with local schools and districts, and continue to grow the regional funding base to ensure that Teach For America – Connecticut can have an even greater impact. By 2010, the region aims to raise $5 million annually to support a corps of 250 teachers, allowing the region to affect the educational outcomes of more than 15,000 students every year.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Providing ongoing administrative support including scheduling meetings and conference calls, maintaining calendars, arranging travel, managing correspondence, securing provisions, and processing expenditures for the executive director
• Assuming a proactive role in increasing the efficiency and organization of the executive director
• Driving and participating in special projects and events to support the executive director in reaching the team’s ambitious goals
• Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date contact database for the executive director and development team
• Acting as a liaison between board members and the executive director
• Coordinating logistics for board meetings including securing meeting space and equipment needs, catering, copying, purchasing materials, setting up and breaking down meeting space
• Managing all prep and follow-up tasks for board meetings as identified by the executive director and managing director of development
• Managing attendance tracking system for board meetings
• Designing and writing the monthly board e-newsletter to keep board members informed of regional and organizational news and events
• Drafting and/or editing correspondence to team members and external constituents
• Working proactively with the development team to create systems to maintain organized filing systems and an ample supply of information packets for internal/external stakeholders

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites

Education and Professional Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or high school diploma required
• Prior administrative experience is preferred

Skills
• Strong customer service ethic
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Writing in an effective and compelling manner
• Verbally communicate in an effective and compelling manner
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to juggle several projects at once with a spirit of flexibility and positive outlook

Technical Skills
• Ability to maintain and update databases
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel highly preferred

Benefits and Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.

Anti-Discrimination Policy and Commitment to Diversity

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort.

Additional Requirments / Information

Job Capacity:	Employee (full-time)
Minimum Education Level:	See Job Description
Visa Sponsorship:	No
Related Industries:	Administration

Become part of a force for change.

Teach For America is the national corps that calls upon outstanding and diverse recent college graduates to commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in ensuring that all our nation’s children have an equal chance in life. Since 1989, 7000 corps members in 16 geographic areas have positively impacted students and communities while gaining the insight, network, skills and credibility to effect change after their two-year commitment.

THE CHALLENGE
Children growing up in urban areas and remote rural regions often face tremendous socio-economic challenges. Public schools are generally not set up to compensate for these challenges. The result is that children growing up in low-income communities are seven times less likely to graduate from college than children in high-income areas.

With fewer educational prospects come fewer life prospects.

IMMEDIATE IMPACT
Teach For America selects a committed, outstanding corps of diverse college graduates who will set ambitious goals for their students and work proactively and relentlessly to meet these goals. Corps members are trained to develop the leadership skills they have demonstrated and to apply them in the classroom, resulting in better educational and life prospects for the students they teach.

The 2001 corps has an average GPA of 3.5 and 35% of the corps are people of color. 86% of corps members held at least one leadership position as undergraduates.

Corps members receive intensive training in the approaches used by successful teachers in under-resourced communities and are supported at the regional and national levels throughout their commitment

96% of principals surveyed rated corps members as "advantageous" to their schools, with the majority rating them "strongly advantageous" (Kane, Parsons, and Associates, 1999).

LONG TERM CHANGE
Teach For America alumni form a network of successful, informed leaders who have insight into the changes needed to improve life prospects in under-resourced areas, and who work towards these changes through all sectors of society.

Approximately 60 % of alumni remain in the field of education, as teachers, school and district administrators, or founders of innovative new schools and programs.

Another 40% of alumni work in fields such as medicine, business, politics, journalism, and law, using their status as leaders and the insight and credibility they gained in the corps to effect change.

All alumni come out of their Teach For America experience positioned for success. Graduate schools and employers value the concrete, transferable skills gained by corps members.

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