Teach For America

Assistant, Growth Strategy

Position Summary

Teach For America's growth strategy team is responsible for attaining and sustaining the highest impact scale across the nation by supporting the growth and development of placement partnerships in existing regions and launching new sites. By 2015, we aim to have 14,000 corps members working in nearly 50 communities up from 6,000 corps members in 29 today.

The assistant’s overall responsibility is to provide administrative support for the vice presidents of the growth strategy & execution. This includes administrative support, scheduling, coordinating travel arrangements, creating and tracking the team budget, organizing conference logistics and working on special projects as needed. This is a fantastic opportunity for an accomplished recent graduate looking to learn the inner workings of a dynamic, high growth nonprofit at an important point in the trajectory of our organization and the movement to end educational inequity. The assistant reports directly to the vice president, growth strategy & execution.

Growth Strategy is a sub-team of the national Growth Strategy and Development function, which helps Teach For America fulfill our potential as a force for change by marshaling resources, cultivating public and private sector champions, and strategically seizing opportunities for expansion and revenue growth both nationally and regionally.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Providing administrative support, including: scheduling all internal and external meetings and conference calls, maintaining calendars, arranging daily travel and managing correspondence
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date budget tracking and reporting systems, driving the creation of the team budget annually, preparing check requests, coding regular expenses and processing reimbursements
• Managing and drafting general correspondence and communications
• Composing packets with current Teach For America materials for external meetings with potential funders
• Managing the team’s inventory of printed materials and Teach For America merchandise
• Organizing the logistics of team retreats, team step-backs and social activities, including conference space, technology, and internal communications
• Working collaboratively with other team and client assistants and support functions
• Driving special projects in support of the team
• Assuming a proactive and collaborative role in building the culture of the growth strategy team
• Assuming proactive role in increasing the efficiency and organization of the Vice President

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 0-1 years of professional work experience

Skills – demonstrated experience:
• Strong customer service ethic, organization, and attention to detail
• Strong critical thinking skills and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, and to juggle several projects at once with a spirit of flexibility and ability to prioritize

Technical Skills:
• Knowledge of MS Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel

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:	Business

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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