Cornell University Campus Ambassador
About the Role
Campus Campaign Ambassador
As the Cornell Campus Ambassador, you'll drive efforts to expand educational opportunities 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.
Who We Are
Teach For America is a national nonprofit that provides paid public service pathways designed for college students and recent graduates. Our mission is to find, develop, and support extraordinary leaders to transform education and expand opportunity for all children. We seek applicants who desire to build career skills, take on meaningful responsibility in their work, and work alongside underserved communities - contributing to students' academic and personal growth and addressing gaps in education. Our leaders go on to lead long-term, informed by their experiences, to create lasting change across sectors.
What You'll Do 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 brand
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, radio, 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 Salesforce
- Use data to make strategic decisions about what activities will be most effective in increasing Teach For America's brand and recruitment outcomes
What You'll Gain
- Paid, flexible work that fits your schedule. Flat rate of $18.40 in accordance with DC minimum wage.
- 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
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 5 hours a week (depending on campus) on a consistent basis and a max of 10 hours a week
- 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