Teach For America

Manager, Planning & Analysis

Position Summary

The planning & analysis team at Teach For America is responsible for leading the organization through its annual planning cycle. The team works directly with managers throughout the organization to create the annual expense budget and monthly expense forecasts. The planning & analysis team is also responsible for providing the leadership team at Teach For America with the information they need to make timely data-driven decisions on resource allocation.

The manager, planning & analysis works directly with select regional teams to ensure that their analytical needs and financial/operational optimization practices are handled in a thorough, accurate, actionable, and timely manner. To do so, the manager must serve both as a business analyst who understands business and operating process and as an analytical resource who drives the monthly review process, prioritizes areas of risks and opportunities, and initiates all relevant discussions with key leaders within the teams that he/she supports. The position requires strong customer-orientation, a focus on delivering accurate and actionable analytical tools, and a flexible, entrepreneurial approach to solving problems.

The manager, planning & analysis can expect to gain a deep understanding of how Teach For America’s regional and national teams allocate their resources. He/she will learn about the annual activities of his/her teams and build strong relationships with employees across the organization. The manager can expect to have daily interaction with the rest of the planning & analysis team and periodic interaction with the chief financial officer and other operating committee members.

This position reports to the managing director of planning and analysis.

The Finance and Administration team ensures that Teach For America has the financial and administrative capabilities to support our rapid organizational growth and enables us to meet our short- and long-term goals. The team oversees all financial matters, including accounting operations, planning and analysis, grants and contracts administration, and payroll processes. The team also manages all facilities, real estate strategy, and purchasing initiatives for the organization.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Partnering with regional executive directors and staff on forecast/budget preparation and consolidation
• Performing advanced to complex level analytical work in support of the development, interpretation, and implementation of cost efficiencies and best practices
• Tracking, analyzing and communicating cost overages, savings, risks, and opportunities, as well as all supporting analyses that provide actionable guidance and problem solving frameworks
• Serving as the overall and primary lead on financial support for regional customers
• Working with, and coordinating all aspects of budget controls with regional budget trackers. Helps staff members interpret departmental budgets
• Providing detailed situational analysis that will help drive the interpretation and development of policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Working directly with regional operations leadership to provide benchmarking analysis and insight on overall regional performance and spending.

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Detail-oriented and extremely organized
• Exceptional writing and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong orientation towards customer service based leadership
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Good analytical instincts
• Financial acumen, focused towards operations analysis results
• The ability to adapt communication styles and content depending on the audience
• The ability to operate effectively, and with a sense of possibility, in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Education & Experience
• One to three years of financial/operations analysis
• Bachelors’ degree required
• Experience in change management, and workflow and process re-engineering
• A record of creating and managing detailed organizational systems, and coordinating projects across a diverse group of stakeholders

Benefits and Salary

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:	Financial Services

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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