Director, Regional Impact

ROLE

TITLE:

Director, Regional Impact

POSITION

REPORTS TO:

Chief External Affairs Officer

Final date to receive applications:
August 24th, 2026

LOCATION:

Charlotte, North Carolina

At Teach For America, we know that leadership is the most powerful lever for change. In North Carolina, we are cultivating a community of extraordinary leaders-beginning with our corps members and extending to our 2,300+ alumni-who are deeply committed to ensuring that every child has access to an excellent education and the opportunity to thrive. As a member of the External Affairs & Regional Impact team, you will contribute to the relationships, insight, and influence that move North Carolina toward our 2030 goal.

Your unique role will be to build the relationships needed to increase literacy attainment in Charlotte and to manage stakeholder engagement in support of that goal.

The Director of Regional Impact will serve as an external leader responsible for cultivating strategic community partnerships that amplify our mission. Reporting to the Chief External Affairs Officer, this role will develop and execute comprehensive strategies that accelerate progress toward our 2030 goal. To achieve all of this, you thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial setting, have a proven ability to set and execute a localized strategy in alignment with a collective local vision and inspire, influence and galvanize others in support of that vision and strategy.

You operate with a high level of personal responsibility and optimism and excel at achieving outcomes both independently and through partnering with others to reach those goals. You are big-picture oriented but obsessive about the details. You have a demonstrated ability to build and sustain strong relationships, and to cultivate internal and external coalitions. You are passionate about your contribution to educational excellence in North Carolina.

Work collaboratively with key players and high impact stakeholders in your community to set a strategy to accelerate local progress toward the 2030 goal. For example:
Launch a coalition of partners committed to increasing school attendance in your community by %; join a coalition of partners committed to increasing reading proficiency in your community by %.

Develop content expertise in evidence-based strategies, tactics, and policies that advance early literacy and school engagement.

Represent Teach For America North Carolina with the stakeholders in your community, involving and managing up and laterally to key partners across the team and the organization as necessary.

Build relationships and gain a deep knowledge of the local and political landscape to ensure Teach For America becomes part of the social and educational fabric of the community and foster collaboration and alignment in pursuit of meaningful progress.

Manage a portfolio of key local stakeholders, leveraging power mapping and cultivation strategies to move stakeholders through TFA NC’s engagement rubric.

Support our collaborative and cross-functional work by building and sustaining strong systems to track and communicate progress in your work both internally and externally.

Leverage systems already in place to maintain clean stakeholder records across the community that you serve.

Serve as the expert on PK-12 issues and TFA’s presence & impact in the local community you serve, collaborating with TFA NC’s Development and Marketing & Communications teams to surface and share stories as needed.

Support and engage in prioritized North Carolina and TFA-wide initiatives. Examples may include inclusion participation in:
Staff committees, working groups, and task forces;
Regional events and programming;
Corps member & Ignite selection.

Prior

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of related professional work experience required;
Deep knowledge of the NC PK-12 education ecosystem at the state and local levels;
Demonstrated excellence in stakeholder engagement, working across lines of difference, and written/ verbal…