Executive Director-Treasurer

Massachusetts Teachers Association; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

Job summary

The MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION is seeking an Executive Director‑Treasurer to lead a statewide union grounded in locals and a strong member base. This role advises on strategy and manages staff to advance an ambitious vision for PreK‑16 education policy and a just school system.

We seek a seasoned leader with deep commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice, strong budgeting and governance skills, and a track record of building union power through rank-and-file organizing and

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of executive/senior leadership and management experience.
• Commitment to a vision of a labor movement that advances racial, economic, and gender justice and a common good agenda.
• Deep commitment to public education as a public good and dedication to the rights of educators, students, and families.
• Demonstrated high-level skills in budget analysis and management, including budget preparation and reporting.
• Strong organizational skills including strategic planning, team building, program development, and systems implementation.
• Understanding of appropriate roles of governance and staff within a membership organization and ability to work successfully in an executive position accountable to an elected Board of Directors.
• Demonstrated experience in leading organizational change.
• Understanding of and commitment to dismantling systems of oppression such as white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.
• Understanding of the collective bargaining process and the culture of unions; experience managing in a unionized workplace environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support elected leadership in moving a vision of the MTA as a powerful rank and file statewide union grounded in strong locals and advises on strategic leadership to achieve this vision and manage staff to assure unified movement toward that vision.
• Direct and supervise management staff, foster a strong team culture and inter‑divisional collaboration, and support professional development opportunities.
• In partnership with elected leadership, bring forward policy recommendations to MTA’s governance bodies to strengthen programs, campaigns, staffing, and fiscal sustainability and, as an executive accountable to the Board of Directors, ensure adherence to the bylaws and policies of the Association.

Skills

Executive leadership

Budget analysis

Strategic planning

Organizational development

Governance understanding

Union leadership

Job description

The Massachusetts Teachers Association(MTA) represents over 116,000 educators and nearly 400 locals across the state and employs over 180 full‑time staff. Our members are teachers, education support professionals, counselors, social workers, bus drivers, and more in preK‑12 public schools, and faculty and staff in the state’s public colleges and universities. As a member‑driven organization and the largest union in New England, our collective power makes MTA an influential voice for educators, students, and their communities. MTA’s innovative approach to democratized bargaining, contract action teams, and rank and file organizing has resulted in groundbreaking gains for our members. And historic victories won through coalition efforts, such as a ballot initiatives raising taxes on the wealthy and ending high stakes standardized testing to fund public schools and colleges, have raised standards for communities across the state. MTA is a leading educator union in the country for progressive issues and successes. We are proud to be an advocate for social, racial and economic justice and for a public education system that provides one of the cornerstones of a thriving, equitable, and democratic society.

DUTIES

The MTA Executive Director‑Treasurer supports elected leadership in moving a vision of the MTA as a powerful rank and file statewide union grounded in strong locals and advises on strategic leadership to achieve this vision and manage staff to assure unified movement toward that vision.

Strategic Planning and Leadership

• Ensure MTA has the resources necessary to serve as a leading voice on PreK‑16 education policy and advocate for the common good.
• Direct and supervise management staff, foster a strong team culture and inter‑divisional collaboration, and support professional development opportunities.
• In partnership with elected leadership, bring forward policy recommendations to MTA’s governance bodies to strengthen programs, campaigns, staffing, and fiscal sustainability and, as an executive accountable to the Board of Directors, ensure adherence to the bylaws and policies of the Association.

Building Union and Rank and File Power

• Implement the vision and strategic direction and provide the resources needed to support and accelerate the rank and file organizing, local activism, strike‑ready locals, and leadership development that will build union power.
• Strengthen MTA's leadership and influence within the Massachusetts labor movement.
• Foster an organizational culture that promotes collaboration and unity and centers the values of racial, economic, and gender justice.

Fiscal Management and Employee Relations

• Ensure the financial integrity and sustainability of the Association’s operating budget and reserves and serve as the custodian of all the funds, reserves, and investments, as well as providing oversight of the pension plan.
• Collaborate with the Advisory Budget Committee, Chief Financial Officer and other appropriate stakeholders to develop and administer the annual budget, and to establish appropriate internal controls, oversight, and policies and procedures in the finance and accounting division.
• Exercise oversight of all staff, working with the organization’s three internal staff unions, to implement the strategic goals and objectives of the Board of Directors.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

• 5‑8 years of executive/senior leadership and management experience.
• Deep commitment to a vision of a labor movement that advances racial, economic, and gender justice and a common good agenda.
• Deep commitment to public education as a public good and dedication to the rights of educators, students, and families.
• Demonstrated high‑level skills in budget analysis and management, including budget preparation and reporting.
• Strong organizational skills including strategic planning, team building, program development, and systems implementation.
• Understanding of appropriate roles of governance and staff within a membership organization and ability to work successfully in an executive position accountable to an elected Board of Directors.
• Demonstrated experience in leading organizational change.
• Understanding of and commitment to dismantling systems of oppression such as white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.
• Understanding of the collective bargaining process and the culture of unions; experience managing in a unionized workplace environment preferred.

Salary is $228K–$253K and generous benefits package.

MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE BASED ON RACE, CREED, RELIGION, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, GENETIC INFORMATION, MARITAL STATUS, or DISABILITY.