Executive Director

Position: Executive Director

Location: Remote (needs to reside in MA and be able to attend in-person meetings and events at least once a month in the Greater Boston area)

Reports to: Board of Directors 

Type of Role: Salaried, part-time (24 hours/week)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Supervises: Director of Operations, Senior Director of Programs

About The Teacher Collaborative

The Teacher Collaborative is a community built by teachers, for teachers that fosters collaboration, empowers innovation, and creates meaningful professional learning opportunities for educators across Massachusetts. Founded in 2017, we have a statewide focus. 

We offer programs that are designed to bring educators together, elevate teachers as experts, support collaboration across schools, and celebrate and share practices that benefit students and teachers. All educators from any school across Massachusetts are invited to participate in our core programs:

• Professional Learning: We provide high quality professional learning opportunities for teachers where they build skills, expertise, confidence, and leadership experiences through a focus on entrepreneurship, design thinking, advocacy, and fundraising to support their ideas. We offer opportunities that meet teachers where they are throughout their career trajectory and teacher leadership journey.
• Teacher-to-Teacher Sharing: We also create in-person and virtual spaces for educators to connect, share, and learn together. At in-person events, educators learn about a new topic, share ideas and resources, and connect with other educators from different schools and districts around the state. Educators find like-minded educators and celebrate what's great about teaching. Through our robust social media presence, teacher-centered podcast, and online resource sharing space, teachers connect to their best resource: one another. 

In addition, we consult and collaborate with schools, districts, and other non-profits on projects that are aligned with our mission of empowering and connecting educators across classrooms and schools. We are a founding member of the Elevating Educators Coalition, where we play a leading role as both fiscal/organizational manager and part of the Executive Leadership Committee.

Position Summary

The Executive Director oversees the overall management of the Teacher Collaborative including strategy, business development, programs, and fundraising. The Executive Director works principally with the Board of Directors and staff to fulfill the organization’s mission and vision. 

Essential Job Functions

The Executive Director is responsible for the following activities:

Serve as a dedicated, mission-driven leader:

• Recruit, lead, support, and retain a highly skilled and high performing team; manage senior leadership team to meet goals and run effective teams. 
• Set clear internal policies, expectations, and goals in order to build alignment to the mission and vision across the organization. 
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; seek and build Board involvement in the organization’s strategic direction.
• Ensure programmatic excellence and rigorous program evaluation through support and collaboration with the Sr. Director of Programs 
• Oversee the Director of Operations to create and maintain systems to allow the day-to-day operations and the human resource, and finance functions of the organization to run smoothly.
• Report successes and challenges to the Board of Directors, Teacher Advisory Board, funders, and other constituents.

Fundraising and organizational development:

• Create and execute a comprehensive fundraising plan to expand revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing and new programs and projects, including securing grants and fee-for-service revenue through projects that are mission-aligned.
• Initiate and maintain relationships with funders and fee-for-contract partners in order to strategically grow and diversify funding.
• Create a master budget and aligned program budgets annually.

Grow the base of people who know and care about the work of the Teacher Collaborative:

• Be an external presence. Actively pursue local and national opportunities to share the organization’s successes and to advocate for our mission and vision.
• Develop and manage partnerships with stakeholders who share our commitment to supporting and developing educators.
• Manage communications strategy from virtual presence to external relations with the goal of creating a well-regarded brand. 

Qualifications:

• Clear alignment with organizational mission; belief that educators are awesome and deserve to be supported as leaders and experts in the highest quality ways possible.
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial; excited to be part of and grow a small but mighty team.
• Outstanding organizational, managerial, and interpersonal skills 
• Demonstrated commitment to working towards equitable outcomes and orientation towards Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion and Equity 
• Track record of success with non-profit fundraising and developing/maintaining relationships with various stakeholders--including funders and partners.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; ability to be a passionate advocate for the mission and vision of the Teacher Collaborative.
• Knowledge of national and local educational landscape, including policies and stakeholder groups; desire to collaborate with other organizations and leaders.
• Experience successfully managing and supporting a team; experience working with a non-profit Board of Directors. 
• Experience teaching or working in a school in some capacity is preferred. 
• 5+ years of work experience in the education and/or non-profit sectors.

Time: This is a salaried, part-time (24 hours/week) position. The job will involve some travel within Massachusetts, including monthly in-person meetings in the Greater Boston area. Because we work with teachers, note that some of our programs and events take place in the evening. Note that (if desired) there is potential for the position to become more full time with fundraising success and Board approval. 

Compensation: $76,000-$82,000 (for 24 hours/week) 

We strive for equity in our compensation and therefore the salary band is not flexible. The Teacher Collaborative offers three weeks or equivalent based on hours worked of vacation (9 days for this position) and 12 paid holidays along with the rest of the week of 4th of July and the time from December 24th through January 1st. This position also has 48 hours off sick time and 3 personal days. We offer health insurance and pay 60% of the individual medical premium base plan. 

How to Apply: 

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter by completing this form. The preferred application deadline for this position is May 10, 2024. We do not guarantee review of applications after this date.

The Teacher Collaborative provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 

We strive for equity in our compensation and therefore the salary band is not flexible. The Teacher Collaborative offers three weeks or equivalent based on hours worked of vacation (9 days for this position) and 12 paid holidays along with the rest of the week of 4th of July and the time from December 24th through January 1st. This position also has 48 hours off sick time and 3 personal days. We offer health insurance and pay 60% of the individual medical premium base plan.