Job Description
What We Do Teach Plus is a national nonprofit whose mission is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success. At the heart of our work is developing teacher leadership and voice in pursuit of student outcomes. We believe that investing in our most talented teachers—developing them into well-informed, persuasive leaders—gives them deep leverage in elevating the most pressing education issues facing students, teachers, and communities while advancing opportunities for students. Learn more at teachplus.org . Teach Plus Executive Director Role At Teach Plus, our Student Opportunity Mandate calls us to seek long-term, measurable, and structural change on behalf of students, communities, and educators. Reporting to the Chief Regional Impact and Operations Officer, Executive Directors (EDs) at Teach Plus are responsible for setting the vision and executing on strategies to drive this local impact in the states where we work. As sophisticated systems leaders and subject matter experts, Teach Plus EDs are convicted and credible power brokers that strategically advance bodies of work that address the most critical needs for students, communities, and educators. While this role has foundational responsibilities and required skills, mindsets, and orientations, it is ultimately a highly contextualized, hyper-local systems leadership role that requires an ongoing analysis of the role Executives and the broader institution (Teach Plus) must play in a community at any given time. This role is Indiana-based with regular in-state travel; occasional national travel as needed. The Foundational Executive Director Responsibilities Include: Setting a Vision for Local Impact, Grounded in Strategic Clarity: Through an iterative approach, Executive Directors must be able to continuously: Understand and describe (both internally to the organization and to external partners) e
