Executive Director

Summary

Join Teach For All in leading the new "Rising Generation" organization, dedicated to inspiring university graduates to pursue careers addressing global challenges. This role involves building a global learning community, fostering experimentation and action in the U.S., and contributing to public discussions on this critical issue. The Executive Director will develop and execute organizational plans, build a Board of Advisers, and measure the initiative's success. This position requires significant experience in recruiting graduates for impactful careers, strong leadership and communication skills, and a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The successful candidate will report to Teach For All's CEO and collaborate with other network colleagues. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial skills and ability to envision new possibilities, develop strategy, and access resources
• Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively
• Strong project management and execution skills
• Experience working with and/or recruiting outstanding graduates at the university level
• Experience having managed a team to ambitious outcomes
• Minimum of 7 years of professional and leadership experience
• Extensive skills mobilizing diverse groups of stakeholders across race, age, socioeconomic status, and other diverse lived experiences
• Exemplifies Teach For All’s core values
• All candidates must possess permanent work authorization in the United States in order to be considered

Responsibilities

• Build out the organization’s vision, develop and execute on its plans, measure impact, build a Board of Advisers, and help determine the organization’s future
• Cultivate a growing global learning community, the Rising Generation Collective, to engage current and former university presidents, youth-serving non-profits, thought leaders, and others from the U.S. and globally to continue to share information, learning, and opportunities for further collaboration on this topic
• Foster experimentation and action in the U.S., in particular through: Encouraging institutions of higher education to foster intentional, values-based early career choices among their graduates, including through creating rituals that foster reflection on values and their implications for job choices; providing students with many more opportunities to explore early jobs that align with their values, and so forth
• Contribute to and fostering student-led movements that challenge institutions and college students to shift prevailing norms around early career decisions
• Develop and execute on a plan to contribute to the public discussion on this issue, through: Building out the fact base about the importance of the issue and the extent of the challenge
• Supporting communications efforts to build understanding among the rising generation that careers dedicated to making the world a better place are fulfilling both personally and professionally, and to foster intentionality about their early career choices
• Enlisting the partnership of media and other influencers who can be helpful in this pursuit
• Build a Board of Advisers to guide the development of the organization
• Develop a means to measure the success of the initiative
• Cultivate the organization’s supporters and prospective supporters
• Build out the organization’s foundations and future plans

Benefits

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience and includes a comprehensive benefits package