Manager, Regional Team Initiatives

ROLE TITLE: Manager, Regional Initiatives 

POSITION REPORTS TO: Meilan Akaka Manfre

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, September 15, 2025

LOCATION: Hawaiʻi (Oʻahu preferred)

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Just over half of this role will focus on ensuring our regional staff support structures are appropriately maintained and implemented with fidelity. This operational support will include management of our physical office and a regular cadence of reporting on expenses, team activities, and program outcomes. The other half of this role will involve more directly supporting and contributing towards our collective 2030 vision in Hawaiʻi by supporting prioritized strategic initiatives and facilitating connections between our staff and key stakeholders.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Regional Operations (50%)

• Assistant to the Executive Director: support the Executive Director with meeting outreach to key stakeholders, travel arrangements, calendaring, preparation materials, communications, and other miscellaneous support to increase the effectiveness of the Executive Director.

• Regional Board: support the Executive Director and External Network Lead to prepare board meeting agendas. Manage board meeting operations, including working with board members and assistants to track and encourage attendance, ordering food, and preparing meeting materials.

• Financial Management: create expense reports, update budget tracking, ensure timely payment of invoices, and monitor compliance with finance and spending policies.

• Data Systems: support regional knowledge management by updating existing data systems, regional documents, and alumni records

• Office and Property Management: act as the regional point of contact for the national real estate team and local property managers to ensure compliance with applicable policies, timely dissemination of updates, appropriate building and parking access control, and implementation of safety and emergency protocols; also manage the inventory, storage, and distribution office supplies and amenities.

Internal Team (20%)

• Provide perspective and contribute to internal team initiatives aimed to cultivate a strong staff team, including all-staff meetings, retreats, communications, professional development opportunities, feedback structures, and celebrations.

• Contribute to regional progress, including maintaining dashboards and strategic deployment of flexible capacity for additional cross-team support.

Initiatives Team (20%)

• Early Literacy: support team projects to improve early literacy, including an exploration of how TFA might meaningfully contribute to advancing Pre-K education.

• Ignite: support and expand the implementation of the Teach For America Ignite tutoring fellowship in partner public schools.

• Strategic capacity: provide additional capacity to support the work of prioritized strategic initiative sub-teams, including efforts to leverage our regional and national milestone year to increase network engagement and initiatives targeting kamaʻāina program participants.

Regional Team (10%)

• All Hawai‘i team members contribute time to cross-team projects and all staff expectations, including selection of corps members or ignite fellows, and facilitating and engaging in all staff gatherings and learning experiences.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

Over the course of any week, the Manager of Regional Team of Initiatives will spend time across a variety of workstreams. Each day will look different. Some days you may spend calling school partners to schedule meetings with principals; other days you may be compiling updates from functional teams to prepare packets for an upcoming Board meeting; other days you may be matching up credit card expenses with receipts and budget line items to file expense reports; and other days you may find yourself at a school to provide logistical support for a literacy event or Ignite tutoring session.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications): 

• At least 2 years of related professional experience

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and consistently meet deadlines

• Strong writing and communication skills

• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends, as needed

• Baseline knowledge of Hawai‘i’s histories, culture, and context

BONUS (preferred qualifications) 

• Experience coaching and advising leaders through complex challenges toward impact

• Proven track record of achieving resu