Teach For America

Assistant, Regional Operations

Position Summary
We are seeking an assistant to provide critical support to the Regional Operations team and manage the administrative work for three Vice Presidents. This individual will be responsible for scheduling and coordinating travel, planning executive director conferences, and participating in other various team projects as necessary. The assistant reports directly to the director of staff operations on the regional operations team.
The Regional Operations team works to foster regional innovation and ensure consistent increases in regional performance by identifying, developing, and overseeing Teach For America’s regional executive directors, who collectively fuel the growth and success of our mission. The team works to ensure that Teach For America’s regions maximize the impact of corps members and alumni, in addition to cultivating diverse and sustainable funding bases to ensure their long-term sustainability.
Responsibilities
Ongoing
• Managing multiple calendars including scheduling meetings, proactively identifying concerns, and arranging travel
• Coordinating and creating weekly email blast to executive directors across the country
• Processing reimbursements
• Supporting the executive director interview process including communication with candidates
• Assisting new executive directors by providing administrative support as needed in their transitional period
• Taking on additional special projects as needed by the team
Potential Projects
• Organizing the logistics of executive director conferences including lodging, conference space, communication, and activities
• Organizing the logistics of our yearly goal setting including communications with regions, mapping out the schedule, and coordinating travel and logistics
Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites
Skills: Proven/Demonstrated experience…
• Strong customer service ethic required
• Excellent organization and communication skills and attention to detail required
• Strong critical thinking, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and to manage multiple projects with a spirit of flexibility
• Familiarity with managing confidential information and ability to exercise discretion required

Technical Skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Suite applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) strongly preferred
• Bachelor degree required
• 0 to 3 years of work experience preferred
• Previous administrative experience preferred, but not required
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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