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TEAM: Teach For America - Hawai‘i
REPORTS TO: Jill Baldemor | Senior Vice President, Regional Field Executive
PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 7th, 2025
LOCATION: Hawai‘i
What You’ll Do
Hawai‘i is a place rich with wisdom and hope. Building on the knowledge deeply rooted in this place, Teach For America has worked alongside dedicated students, families, educators, and business & community leaders to foster an education system that unlocks the full potential of Hawai‘i’s keiki (children). Over the past 19 years, Teach For America has recruited and trained over 1,100 corps members for Hawai‘i’s public schools and today, over 600 Teach For America corps members and alumni make up our diverse network of locally rooted leaders deeply committed to our students and community. As we look ahead to 2026, our 20th year of serving the Hawai‘i community, we seek a visionary leader to set the course for the next 20 years and that’s where you fit in.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
TFA is seeking its next Executive Director to lead the Hawai‘i region toward its 2030 vision. This leader will work shoulder-to-shoulder with existing champions and enlist new advocates – including corps members, parents, students, community leaders, donors, and elected officials – as partners in the success of all children. The next leader will lead a strong, accomplished, and innovative regional team and will play a key role in public affairs across the statewide landscape. The next Executive Director’s mission is to evolve and hone the role that Teach for America must play to accelerate educational opportunity for all. The Executive Director will lead a team of local staff members and will be responsible for raising approximately $4,000,000 per year.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Strategy, Innovation, and Impact
The ideal candidate will/have:
A hallmark of our team is a strong culture that fully embraces the core values of Teach For America and the Hawai‘i community. The Hawai‘i team operates as an agile team of empowered leaders, working collaboratively together, and in partnership with students, families, and the broader community, to drive toward community impact.
Your Compensation
The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected starting salary range for this role is set forth below. This range may be modified in the future:
Salary Tier B: $173,700 - $210,000
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. If your location is not listed, please click here for additional total rewards information.
REPORTS TO: Jill Baldemor | Senior Vice President, Regional Field Executive
PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 7th, 2025
LOCATION: Hawai‘i
What You’ll Do
Hawai‘i is a place rich with wisdom and hope. Building on the knowledge deeply rooted in this place, Teach For America has worked alongside dedicated students, families, educators, and business & community leaders to foster an education system that unlocks the full potential of Hawai‘i’s keiki (children). Over the past 19 years, Teach For America has recruited and trained over 1,100 corps members for Hawai‘i’s public schools and today, over 600 Teach For America corps members and alumni make up our diverse network of locally rooted leaders deeply committed to our students and community. As we look ahead to 2026, our 20th year of serving the Hawai‘i community, we seek a visionary leader to set the course for the next 20 years and that’s where you fit in.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
TFA is seeking its next Executive Director to lead the Hawai‘i region toward its 2030 vision. This leader will work shoulder-to-shoulder with existing champions and enlist new advocates – including corps members, parents, students, community leaders, donors, and elected officials – as partners in the success of all children. The next leader will lead a strong, accomplished, and innovative regional team and will play a key role in public affairs across the statewide landscape. The next Executive Director’s mission is to evolve and hone the role that Teach for America must play to accelerate educational opportunity for all. The Executive Director will lead a team of local staff members and will be responsible for raising approximately $4,000,000 per year.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Strategy, Innovation, and Impact
- Iterate, strengthen, and execute an inspiring vision and strategy to reach our local 2030 goal.
- Build relationships to inspire and galvanize action across staff, members, board, and the broader education, civic, and philanthropic communities.
- Deliver impact by leveraging TFA’s central teams and maximizing local partnerships and expertise.
- Act as an organizational steward to increase our impact and culture in the region.
- Provide leadership, in partnership and coalition with local organizations, in pursuit of education policy and innovative solutions necessary to reach our local 2030 goal.
- Initiate, cultivate, and extend relationships with the organization’s portfolio of individual, foundation, and corporate supporters with an emphasis on developing new partnerships aligned to emerging strategic efforts.
- Lead efforts to generate philanthropic support in collaboration with the Development team, leveraging the local TFA Hawai‘i board and their relationships.
- Engage strategically with members of state government to ensure Teach For America’s continued ability to operate in Hawai‘i and ongoing support for public funding.
- Build and manage strong relationships and partnerships with the Board, particularly the Chair, maintaining regular and ongoing communication with the entire Board, and providing support and guidance to members to support effective governance of the organization.
- Work closely and openly with the Board, ensuring ongoing communication of risks, issues, successes, and emerging opportunities.
- Build a diverse regional board and leverage board members and their networks to support financial sustainability.
- Model the organization’s core values to approach challenges, ensuring the organization grows and retains its people; grow and evolve a culture that is strategic, agile, and determined to deliver for students in partnership with our communities.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a diverse team of high quality and highly functional leaders who are aligned with the mission and vision of the organization.
- Actively develop direct reports to be effective in their roles and in the management of their teams.
- Convene and catalyze a community-grounded coalition of champions and stakeholders to advance systems change by influencing the conversation about education, learning, and economic mobility, fueling the leadership of Hawai‘i alumni and community leaders and helping to cultivate the conditions required for students to thrive.
The ideal candidate will/have:
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including experience leading an organization with effective operational and fiscal management.
- Demonstrated passion, commitment and alignment with the mission and values of Teach for America.
- Demonstrated ability to provide vision, strategic clarity, and to offer innovative solutions to organizational challenges and leverage this to advance broader systems change.
- Ability to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity, and to prioritize execution of overall organizational strategy to enable positive outcomes for students.
- Experience leading teams to successful outcomes grounded in the core values of the organization
- Deep experience, curiosity, and understanding of the local educational and political context in Hawai‘i and knowledge of best practices and education policy and research
- Demonstrated experience building relationships, building consensus, leading successful campaigns, and mobilizing others to champion the organization and move others to action.
- Exceptional written, oral, and visual communications skills and a desire to develop and maintain deep relationships with a variety of diverse constituents.
- Ability to travel efficiently and frequently across the state of Hawai‘i (including to neighbor islands).
A hallmark of our team is a strong culture that fully embraces the core values of Teach For America and the Hawai‘i community. The Hawai‘i team operates as an agile team of empowered leaders, working collaboratively together, and in partnership with students, families, and the broader community, to drive toward community impact.
Your Compensation
The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected starting salary range for this role is set forth below. This range may be modified in the future:
Salary Tier B: $173,700 - $210,000
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. If your location is not listed, please click here for additional total rewards information.