Head of Public Purpose Pathways

Summary

Join the Founding Team of Rising Generation, a new organization incubated by Teach For All, to foster collective action for the next generation of university graduates. The Head of Public Purpose Pathways will play a key role in catalyzing and supporting the growth of opportunities enabling recent college graduates to work on social challenges. This position requires entrepreneurial skills, relationship-building abilities, and the capacity to generate public, private, and social sector partnerships. The successful candidate will develop strategies to increase accessibility of these opportunities and support social entrepreneurs. They will also contribute to the overall initiative's success by supporting key strategies and strengthening the Rising Generation Collective. The role involves significant travel within the United States. The position is full-time and based in the U.S. and does not offer visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial skills and ability to envision new possibilities, develop strategy, and access resources
• Ability to build strong relationships across lines of difference and communicate effectively
• Strong project management and execution skills
• Experience working with and/or recruiting outstanding graduates at the university level
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in mission-driven and leadership roles
• Extensive skills mobilizing diverse groups of stakeholders across race, age, socioeconomic status, and other diverse lived experiences
• Exemplifies Teach For All’s core values

Responsibilities

• Grow the accessibility, scale, and diversity of job options enabling recent graduates to gain proximity to social issues and make a societal impact
• Build relationships with providers of existing options to work for the common good , to understand the landscape and the barriers to scale
• Develop a strategy for increasing accessibility of these options and supporting their growth
• Build partnerships with public sector and social sector leaders who are tackling big societal problems to envision and inspire the creation of new avenues for enabling young people to take part in these efforts
• Support social entrepreneurs to create new options and pathways for recruiting recent graduates to have an impact against big societal issues across sectors, including through leveraging help and support from Teach For America and Teach For All
• Generate new financial enablers for public service careers , including through working with universities and other governments and institutions to offer loan forgiveness for their students, cultivating national philanthropists to offer education awards for public service choices, and engaging local philanthropists in offering financial enablers to incentivize students to pursue public service in their communities
• Contribute to the success of the overall initiative, including by supporting key strategies for the priorities listed above, strengthening the Rising Generation Collective for enabling global learning, and contributing to the effort’s Advisory Board

Benefits

• Salary for this position is competitive and depends on location and prior work experience and includes a comprehensive benefits package
• Travel expected, at least 30%, mostly within the United States