Posted on January 21, 2013

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Executive Director

Teach For America seeks an Executive Director (ED) for its Kansas City region. Our ED will work relentlessly to maximize Teach For America's impact in the region, both in the short term as we work to achieve our ambitious growth goals, and in the longer term to drive the vision and plan to end educational inequity in Kansas City. The work of the ED is grounded in the ability to invest and partner with community stakeholders as vital colleagues in this work and to effectively hire, manage and develop a diverse team of high performing individuals to reach ambitious goals.

The Kansas City ED will be deeply committed to diversity and inclusiveness and will present a record of dedication to working and partnering with diverse constituencies, including low-income communities and communities of color. S/he will set the region's vision and direction for how TFA will strive to play a critical role to eliminate educational inequity in the Kansas City area.
Teach For America's 46 Executive Directors are a part of the national senior leadership team at Teach For America and operate at the forefront of the movement to eliminate educational inequity in this country. The Kansas City Executive Director is supported by a local advisory board, reports to a Senior Vice President of Regional Operations, and manages a team of approximately 20 staff members.

Team Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Be the face and voice for Teach For America in Kansas City
  
• Chart our course in the region, to maximize our impact in the short and long run, and to take our region from good to great by maximizing the power of our alumni, increasing corps member impact on student achievement, and building sustainable partnerships with communities in the fight for education equity
  
• Build staff capacity and infrastructure and manage relationships with key stakeholders to grow to a $6 million entity by 2015.
  
• Build political capital to ensure Teach For America becomes part of the social and educational fabric of the region
  
• Work effectively with local media outlets and national communications team to elevate our presence in the Kansas City region
  
• Value and build relationships with community leaders and members to ensure our work is aligned to needs of schools and communities serving primarily low-income students of color
  
• Cultivate strong relationships with current partner school districts to place corps members and alumni leaders with an eye toward maximizing scale, sustainability and impact
  
• Help build relationships with new districts and geographic areas in line with the regional growth plan
  
• Establish relationships and communications with corps members, alumni and staff members across teams to build a strong culture and inform our plans
  
• Grow and maintain a sustainable, diversified state-wide funding base that will include gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations; district and public funding
  
• Continue to engage and enlist board members that will help us maximize our impact in the region. This includes seeking a diverse group of board members who have the influence and networks necessary to support the effort to reach our goals, ensuring we maximize each board member's potential contributions, and that the group as a whole is strong
  
• Support teacher leadership development to create a force of transformational teachers impacting thousands of students throughout Kansas City on their path to and through college (grounding this work in concrete student outcome benchmarks and teacher proficiency data)
  
• Build a strong team and ensure staff members are maximizing their individual potential as organizational and regional team leaders, with explicit professional development priorities
  
• Steward a strong culture based on our core values and our commitment to diversity and inclusiveness
  
• Cultivate and seek the talent we need for staff positions in the Kansas City region and throughout Teach For America
  

Skills and Mindsets:

• Demonstrates a deep commitment to and belief in Teach For America's mission and theory of change
  
• Consistently operates with the organization's core values in mind (transformational change, leadership, team, diversity, respect & humility) and guides the regional team as an organizational and culture leader
  
• Desire and orientation to navigate complex situations; desire and ability to understand people dynamics and networks
  
• Demonstrates excellent judgment, and operates with a high level of personal responsibility, optimism, and entrepreneurialism
  
• Gets results by managing through others and across multiple layers and lines of difference
  
• Skilled at and invested in coaching others and playing a role in their long-term professional development
  
• Proven ability to set an inspiring vision and motivate others to reach ambitious goals and outcomes in support of that vision
  
• Experience formally managing others and managing a team of direct reports is highly preferred
  
• Bachelor's degree required
  

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