Teach for America - Campus Ambassador
Description:
About the Role
As a Campus Ambassador, you’ll drive efforts to expand educational opportunity for students nationwide – starting right on your campus. This is a paid leadership role where you’ll build your marketing, outreach, and communications skills while helping more students discover a path to making real change with Teach For America.
You’ll work closely with Teach For America’s full-time recruitment team to build TFA’s presence on campus, identify purpose-driven student leaders, and connect peers to meaningful service pathways both during their time in college and after graduation through our Ignite Fellowship and teaching corps programs. This is a great fit for students who want to gain professional experience, are energized by peer-to-peer outreach, and want to contribute to the effort to ensure all students have access to an excellent education.
You will gain:
- Real experience in marketing, communications, and recruitment
- Early leadership in a national movement for access and opportunity
- Coaching and mentorship with TFA’s recruitment team
- Early exposure to TFA’s career pathways and post-grad roles, including exclusive opportunities to interview for and be admitted early to our full-time corps position
Duties and Responsibilities:
Grow Our Reach
- Strengthen the TFA brand on your campus
- Develop and execute strategies tailored to your community that increase the visibility, understanding of, and affinity to our bran
Marketing and Outreach
- Run marketing campaigns and digital promotion (social media, campus media)
- Table in high-traffic areas, post flyers, and support email/social outreach
- Secure placements in campus media (newspapers, ratio, newsletters)
Events
- Organize TFA-sponsored and co-hosted events to spark interest and drive engagement
- Coordinate presentations in campus classrooms and with student organizations
Engage and Connect Leaders
- Identify and connect high-potential student leaders with TFA’s programs
- Partner with student organizations to reach key audiences
Data Management
- Track engagement and input key data into our CRM
- Use data to make strategic decisions about what activities will be most effective in increasing Teach For America’s brand and recruitment outcomes
Required Qualifications/Skills:
- Must have accepted a Federal Work-Study award for the current academic year.
WHO YOU ARE
- You are connected, organized, creative, and values-driven. You care deeply about expanding opportunity and access for all and want to use your time and influence now to open doors for others.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Excited to represent TFA and contribute to our mission
- Ability to balance multiple initiatives at once, tracking tasks and project plans to meet goals and timelines
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Strong professional written and verbal communication skills
- Record of achievement in academics, leadership, and/or employment
- High level of initiative and personal responsibility
- Detail oriented and results-driven
REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to work a minimum of 3-10 hours a week (depending on campus) on a consistent basis
- Must be able to attend weekly team meetings and check-ins with manager
- Must be an undergraduate student at a college or university with available positions
- Strong interest in pursuing Teach For America as a post-graduate career opportunity
Preferred Qualifications/Skills:
- Campus leadership or involvement
- Peer relationship-building
- Outreach/recruitment/marketing experience
- Social media and digital communication
- Public speaking/presentation
- Experience collaborating with campus organizations or partners