[Hiring] Global Learning Lead, Fellowship Programs @Teach For All

Role Description

To advance Teach For All's 25-year vision, we are seeking a Global Learning Lead of the Fellowship Programs that Teach For All network partners run. This person will lead global learning and network partner support of the training, support, and development of fellowship participants.

This leadership role sets the overarching vision and strategic priorities for strengthening network participant development, including ensuring students’ holistic development, participant retention, and participant leadership development. The role will lead a global team to foster strong pre-service training, ongoing professional development, teacher coaching, leadership and career development, cohort culture, and systems for monitoring, evaluation, and learning across these functions within 60+ partner organizations and 30 prospective partners. This will include growing the capacities of network partner staff members to deliver high-impact programs.

This role reports directly to the CEO and will work collaboratively with the other teams at Teach For All to contribute to cohesive support of network partners and global learning that advances progress towards our vision of enabling all children to have the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future for themselves and all of us.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster the development of highly effective fellowship programs across the Teach For All network (50%)
• Set Vision and Priorities: Set priorities to strengthen network partners’ and prospective partners’ approach to fostering strong fellowship cohorts, achieving holistic student development, and advancing the collective leadership of fellows.
• Foster Fellowship Strength: Lead a team that provides coaching and learning opportunities to network partners to strengthen fellowship program outcomes, including student outcomes and participant retention, satisfaction, and development.
• Ensure Strong Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL): Lead the team to ensure partners have the measurement tools, data systems, and routine practices needed to track student, fellow, and alumni outcomes.
• Drive Evidence-Based Improvements: Foster learning loops that surface insights about how to grow student outcomes, fellow retention, and participant development.
• Advance global learning on teacher-leader development (25%)
• Advance a Global Learning Agenda: Collaborate with the Global Institute for Shaping a Better Future’s learning leads to develop and execute a learning agenda to surface and advance insights about how to develop teachers who develop students holistically.
• Foster Network Learning on Fellowship Programs: Shape the learning agenda and lead the effort to generate insights about what approaches foster the strongest fellowship outcomes.
• Network Learning, Knowledge Systems & Team Leadership (25%)
• Lead the Team: Lead, develop, and manage a diverse global team of specialists, coaches, and consultants, ensuring high-impact support that accelerates programmatic outcomes network-wide.
• Cross-Functional & Regional Collaboration: Partner with regional and global team members to co-diagnose localized partner needs and build internal organizational capacity around fellowship excellence.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in education, with a minimum of 10+ years leading large-scale teacher training, fellowship design, instructional and/or leadership coaching, or school leadership programs.
• Deep understanding of Teach For All’s theory of change, with a demonstrated ability to shape and flesh out that theory as it relates to systemic educational equity and classroom impact.
• Ability to set vision and strategy, even in ambiguity and complexity, and to influence and motivate others across lines of difference.
• Exceptional ability to independently manage multiple shifting priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, globally-distributed environment.
• Proven experience fostering the leadership and engagement of a diverse, globally dispersed team in an agile environment.
• Proven comfort with monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems, with the orientation and capability to leverage data for continuous learning and improvement.
• Exceptional ability to analyze and synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative information into accessible frameworks and insights.
• Strong writing, public speaking, and facilitation skills, capable of providing thought leadership and running complex global roundtables, workshops, and learning forums.
• Ability to build trusting relationships across diverse cultures and lines of power difference.

Benefits

• Commitment to cultivating a culture in which all staff members feel they belong, are valued for their contributions, and have an impact on our organization’s progress.
• Professional and personal development experiences and ample opportunities to make a positive impact on the work of Teach For All and beyond.
• Comprehensive benefits package designed for your well-being and work-life needs.
• Generous time off and flexible work arrangements.
• And much more!

Application Instructions

If this opportunity sounds like the next best step in your career, please submit your resume or curriculum vitae (CV) and a one-page letter of motivation (in English) directly online. Your letter should summarize motivations for your application and how your skills and experience align with the terms of this opportunity. We look forward to learning about you and your passion for ensuring educational opportunity for all!

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Therefore, candidates are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience.

Work Authorization

This position does not offer employment visa sponsorship, immigration assistance, or support for work permits or residency applications. To be considered, candidates must already possess valid work and residency authorization to work in the country of hire at the time of application.

Compensation

Salary for this position is competitive and dependent on country of hire and prior work experience and includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Travel and Hours

Travel up to 30-40% of the time may be required. Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role.