Who: Teach For America
What: The Associate, Public & Community Affairs (APCA) will play a crucial role in supporting the Senior Managing Director, Public & Community Affairs (SMDPCA) in telling our region’s story and mission externally by building a strong, efficient, and reliable administrative support experience to achieve our funding and legislative goals. They are keenly aware of the importance of strong operations, especially related to data, calendar, and institutional knowledge management. This person has a knack for anticipating the needs of others and understands the significant impact of reliable operations management and execution. In addition to supporting our SMDPCA and other members of our region’s Public & Community Affairs team, they will also work with our Director of Marketing and Communications to ensure our external audience understands our regional narrative and brand. As a whole, this person is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and has experience successfully working across lines of difference, constantly bringing to the forefront the goal of educational equity.
Responsibilities:Administrative Support (50%)
Manage the calendar of the SMDPCA, including scheduling meetings with staff and external constituents and stakeholders
Ensure relevant information related to meetings held by SMDPCA is captured and readily available for SMDPCA to reference
Complete background research for meeting prep
Marketing & Communications (30%)
Support the SMDPCA with drafting the monthly Transforming Education Together external newsletter that goes out to community leaders/organizations and public officials in the region.
Support the SMDPCA with managing the operations and logistics for the Transforming Education Together Podcast
Design informational one pagers and decks for external audiences.
Data Collection/Management (10%)
Work with our Data Team to pull data for our legislative 1-pagers, external decks, meetings preps, etc.
Manage our PCA Salesforce dashboard
Upload our meeting notes to Salesforce
Update and manage our relationship trackers and bill trackers
Manage our newsletter subscription list
Collective Responsibilities (10%)
Contribute to our organization-wide and regional success by supporting member, supporter, and partner programming as needed
Engage in team responsibilities to strengthen our collective work, including check ins, team meetings, professional development, data management, etc.
Prior Experience:
1-2 years relevant work experience in non-profit administrative support highly preferred
Previous communications experience
Experience using design/communications programs (Canva, MarketingCloud, etc.)
Skills and Values:
Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to convey complex ideas concisely and compellingly to a range of external audiences; credible external communicator
Organized and has strong follow-through skills
Nimble, eager to learn and experiment
Impeccable ethical standards and an uncommon level of personal responsibility in driving towards ambitious goals
Passion for TFA’s mission, believes deeply in the importance of inspiring/investing external people in TFA’s work, and has high expectations for how TFA is viewed by external constituents
Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptability, risk taking, and learning from failure in a constantly evolving context
Open to taking on projects outside of your immediate job description to respond to the needs of our network
Ability to learn new applications and platforms quickly
Work Demands
Ability to work some weekends and evenings; ability to travel to in-person meetings
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