Texas Executive Director

Teach Plus• TX, US, TX

2d•$0 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

Teach Plus is a national nonprofit dedicated to empowering excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to lead policy and practice initiatives that promote equity, opportunity, and student success. The organization focuses on developing teacher leadership and voice to improve student outcomes. The Executive Director (ED) role is responsible for setting the vision and executing strategies to drive impact within their state, reporting to the Chief Regional Impact and Operations Officer. This role requires the ED to act as a systems leader, subject matter expert, convener, and strategic partner, building relationships and advancing initiatives to address critical challenges in education. The position is based in Texas, requiring travel throughout the state and occasional national travel.

Requirements

Ability to see the larger system, evaluate and adapt mental models, and remain open to new ideas and information.
Ability to build trust and foster reflective and generative conversations.
Ability to prioritize co-creating the future while remaining responsive to current circumstances.
Understanding of how systemic inequity and oppression serve as root causes for challenges.
Operating from a deep knowledge of how one's own identity impacts leadership and how others experience it.
Deep understanding of the current state of student outcomes across their state.
Ability to tie regional decisions to a theory of action that increases student outcomes.
Establishing credibility with state and district partners.
Keeping a pulse on the broader national conversation regarding student outcomes.
Recognizing and articulating the unique role of teacher perspective and experience in advocating for and advancing systems change.
Affirming individual teacher lived experiences while supporting them to operate as systems leaders.
Belief that narrative has a significant role in change efforts.
Balancing robust teacher input mechanisms with personal conviction and student/family aspirations when setting and driving strategy.
Assuming problems have multiple, complex solutions and using resources proactively, collaboratively, and creatively.
Communicating directly with those impacted by challenges, leveraging radical candor.
Taking a long-term view and spending significant time on problem analysis and root cause understanding.
Ability to set and continuously evaluate strategies for local impact, aligned to quantitative and qualitative goals.
Ability to effectively communicate the organization's vision and strategy to internal and external partners.
Ability to leverage and grow professional networks.
Ability to build and/or leverage existing systems for operational excellence.
Ability to identify and develop talent in both team members and teacher leaders.
Ability to manage individuals towards agreed-upon, measurable outcomes using formal performance management and routine coaching.
Ability to leverage data sets and multiple platforms to track, analyze, and act on progress.
Understanding and managing financial information, including Budget-to-Actuals and grant reports.
Ability to track and analyze key policies in the landscape and take aligned action.
Ability to speak and write effectively to convey key information and bring others into deeper partnership, including fundraising.
Ability to inspire and motivate others through storytelling and crafting compelling narratives.
Ability to serve as an exemplary people manager through team leadership, community building, and mobilizing others.
Ability to communicate with radical candor and apply principles of nonviolent communication.

Responsibilities

Setting a vision for local impact grounded in strategic clarity, including understanding and articulating evidence of prior student outcomes improvement, identifying gaps, and developing theories of change in partnership with other organizations.
Advancing teacher leadership, voice, and advocacy towards the Student Opportunity Mandate by establishing and evolving local models for teacher learning and leadership, using data to assess and improve teacher engagement, co-creating policy agendas, developing local curricula, running advocacy campaigns, developing teachers as trusted messengers, and fostering cross-sector collaboration.
Creating and stewarding a network of champions by setting and executing ambitious fundraising goals, strategically joining and strengthening local coalitions, developing and sharing student and teacher-centered stories, attracting and retaining donors, ensuring fundraising deliverables are high quality, building a cabinet of subject matter experts, and creating a fundraising toolkit.
Creating and sustaining enabling conditions for impact by building, hiring, retaining, and training a local staffing model, serving as exemplary people managers, co-creating plans for local staff learning and development, setting and managing against an annual regional expense target, and strategically maximizing Central staff and resources.