Executive Director, Indiana at Teach Plus

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:

• Understand and describe (both internally to the organization and to external partners) evidence and case studies of prior student outcomes improvement, the drivers that led to this success, and the patterns around those drivers as they specifically relate to advocacy and teacher leadership
• Concretely articulate the gaps between the current state of student outcomes and the aspirations of students, families, and communities, and set ambitious goals/and or strategies to close these gaps, centered on tangible outcomes for students
• In partnership with other organizations and coalition members, develop a sophisticated theory of change and theory of action/logic model around what is required to advance these student outcomes goals and the particular role Teach Plus (teachers, alumni, Executive, and institution) must play as a result

• Establish and continuously evolve local models for teacher learning and leadership aligned with Teach Plus's Leadership Attribute Continuum and Policy Attributes and Competencies
• In partnership with the Center and external partners, use sophisticated data, measurement, and evaluation structures to continuously assess and improve teacher engagement models, including accountability models for managing staff towards effective execution of these programs
• Identify best practices for language, expectations, implementation, and accountability across policy and practice programs to support quality programming.
• Through iterative strategic clarity work, co-create and effectively invest educators in a sophisticated annual or multi-year policy agenda, focused on advancing our Student Opportunity Mandate
• Co-create and revise contextualized local curricula and learning experiences to prepare teachers to engage directly with influential lawmakers, stakeholders, and government employees around your local policy agenda, ultimately positioning them to serve as effective leaders throughout their careers
• Leverage insights from strategic clarity and evidence-based strategies to run and participate in sophisticated local and state advocacy campaigns
• In partnership with the Communications, Research, and other External Affairs teams, develop a robust and sophisticated strategy for developing teachers as trusted messengers and elevating teacher voice in the media in alignment with your strategic clarity work and policy agenda
• Develop teacher leadership and foster cross-sector collaboration to align education with community and business needs in areas such as literacy, college and career readiness, and other potential drivers.

• Set and execute against an…