Director, Ignite Ambassador Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $78.7k - $119.5k / year

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Teach For America

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $3.7M Grant on 2017-11

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Teach For America is an education-focused organization dedicated to ensuring that every young person receives a relevant, engaging education and has the opportunity to choose their own future. Through its teacher corps, Ignite Fellowship, and alumni programs, it builds transformational relationships between students and educators, fostering leadership and social change. TFA aims to impact students in under-resourced communities by recruiting and training teachers, prioritizing diversity, and tackling educational inequities.

📋 Description

• Manage and develop a national cohort of up to 50 campus ambassadors (50%) • Cultivate, hire, coach, support, and hold accountable a distributed team of Ignite alumni ambassadors, maintaining regular 1:1 and cohort-wide touchpoints that drive performance, impact, belonging, and growth. • Build upon past learnings to develop a targeted early talent ambassador program (20%) • Build and refine the systems, training, onboarding, and activation playbooks that enable Ignite ambassadors to generate undergraduate leads and cultivate community on their campuses. • Drive lead generation results and track pipeline health (15%) • Set clear goals for ambassador-driven lead volume, monitor progress against benchmarks, and use data to adjust strategy and coaching in real time. • Coordinate across internal TFA teams to align ambassador activity with broader recruitment strategy (10%) • Partner with early talent recruiters, recruitment team leaders, regional staff, and other relevant teams to ensure ambassador efforts connect to and strengthen TFA's existing campus presence and recruitment funnel. • Manage program operations and reporting (5%) • Maintain ambassador records, performance data, and program documentation, and surface insights and updates to leadership on a regular cadence.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, leadership development, higher education, nonprofit management, or a related field required. • Prior Teach For America (TFA) college recruitment experience with a strong record of results required. • Experience directly managing and developing a distributed team, ambassador program, fellowship, internship program, student leadership program, or other network-based initiatives. • Management of distributed or remote teams, particularly in environments where direct reports are spread across multiple geographies and operate with significant autonomy preferred. • In-depth understanding of TFA’s programmatic offerings, including our corps members and Ignite fellow programs. • Familiarity with TFA campus recruiting, university relations, or undergraduate pipeline development, including an understanding of what drives college student engagement and peer-to-peer influence. • Demonstrated success creating accountability, engagement, and performance management systems for individuals operating across multiple locations or campuses. • Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to monitor performance, identify trends, evaluate program effectiveness, and adjust strategy. • Experience building or scaling a new program, fellowship, or ambassador network from an early stage, including designing onboarding, training, and performance management systems. • Exposure to lead generation, field marketing, or community-building strategies in a campus or youth-facing context. • Graduate-level education in education leadership, nonprofit management, organizational development, or a related field is a plus but not required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities