Director, Career Development Programs & Partnerships - REMOTE

Teach For America • Bentonville, AR

2d • $74,300 - $115,000 • Remote

About The Position

Teach For America's Career Center helps prospective applicants, corps members, and alumni access opportunities that support career growth, leadership development, and long-term impact. The Director, Career Development Programs & Partnerships turns Career Center strategy into accessible participant experiences by managing the content, communications, and operations supporting career development programs and partnerships. The role develops career pathway resources, maintains digital learning experiences, and strengthens tools that help participants discover and engage with opportunities across the TFA network.

The ideal candidate has expertise in career and leadership development and knows how to connect people to relevant learning, resources, and opportunities. This hands-on role manages programs and partnerships, coordinates complex work, and delivers high-quality career development support and participant experiences. The position is remote.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in career services, workforce development, learning and development, alumni engagement, or a related field.
• Experience managing programs, partnerships, or participant-facing initiatives from planning through implementation and evaluation.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and timelines.
• Experience maintaining systems, processes, or workflows that support scalable programs and participant experiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing participant-facing resources, communications, or learning materials.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships across internal teams and with external partner organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing career pathway resources, self-guided learning experiences, or online learning content.
• Experience managing content within a learning management system (LMS), website platform, or digital resource library.
• Familiarity with career development tools and platforms such as uConnect and People Grove.
• Familiarity with program and partner management platforms such as Salesforce, Dynamics, Jira, or similar tools.
• Experience with UX, information architecture, website content management, or digital engagement strategies.
• Experience administering live events, workshops, webinars, or virtual learning experiences.
• Experience working in education, nonprofit, or other mission-driven organizations.

Responsibilities

• Manage partnerships that expand career development opportunities by researching potential partners; coordinating onboarding and shared goals, commitments, and timelines; managing memoranda of understanding and renewals with legal and internal teams; maintaining partner relationships; and integrating partner offerings into career pathways and programs.
• Develop digital learning experiences and career pathway resources, including self-guided learning experiences, toolkits, and online modules. Apply adult learning principles, manage learning platform content and participant access, and maintain a current, organized, and accessible resource repository.
• Manage Career Center programs from planning through execution, including coordinating program and partner-supported learning delivery, timelines, recruitment, logistics, communications, promotional content, planning meetings, and follow-up activities.
• Improve Career Center content and participant engagement by developing website content, navigation, and participant journeys; managing web content updates through uConnect or a comparable platform; and collaborating across TFA to connect resources to participants at different career stages.
• Coordinate webinars and Career Center programs, participant communications, promotional content, partner research and outreach, renewal communications, partnership webpage updates, self-guided learning content, career pathway resources, and website and learning platform content.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director