Executive Director, Indiana at Teach Plus

What We Do Teach Plus is a national nonprofit whose mission is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success. At the heart of our work is developing teacher leadership and voice in pursuit of student outcomes. We believe that investing in our most talented teachers—developing them into well-informed, persuasive leaders—gives them deep leverage in elevating the most pressing education issues facing students, teachers, and communities while advancing opportunities for students. Learn more at . 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: - Setting a Vision for Local Impact, Grounded in Strategic Clarity: Through an iterative approach, Executive Directors must be able to continuously: - 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 - Advancing Teacher Leadership, Voice, and Advocacy towards our Student Opportunity Mandate: In partnership with Center teams at Teach Plus and local partners, EDs must: - 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