Executive Assistant, Office of the Senior Vice President, Teacher Leadership Development
Emerging Professional
With more than 16 million children growing up in poverty in the U.S., and less than 10% of them estimated to graduate from college, Teach for America is on a mission to change the systemic lack of access and opportunity experienced by children in low-income communities.
TFA is a diverse network of US leaders working to confront educational inequity through teaching. Unfamiliar? You can read its history here. TFA’s National Teacher Leadership Development team is responsible for defining the type of systems-change leadership required to fulfill the org’s mission and how to best develop this leadership through the act of teaching.
This TFA team is currently recruiting an Executive Assistant who can support its SVP and execute on high-impact special projects. The wage for this role is competitive and depends on your prior experience. Location is flexible.
What I love
I appreciate the transparency in the job description about the hiring process. “We want you to know what to expect so that you can display your strengths.”
Also, I’m guessing you’d learn a lot in this role and would likely have opportunity to advance. (I notice many staff at the org have risen through the ranks).
Tip!
If you haven’t heard the founder’s story, it’s worth a listen. I recommend the storytelling done here in this “How I Built This” podcast episode. “In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in needy schools. She gathered 100 part-time student recruiters from 100 universities to begin TFA’s first recruiting season. The first corps kicked off training in summer 1990. Today, TFA has close to 60K alumni and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country.”
Don’t forget…
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