Global Head of Girls’ Education – Teach For All

Teach For All is a global network of 60 independent, locally led and governed partner organizations and a global organization committed to developing collective leadership to ensure all children fulfill their potential. Each network partner recruits and develops promising future leaders to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential. Teach For All’s global organization works to increase the network’s impact by capturing and spreading learning, facilitating connections among partners, accessing global resources, and fostering the leadership development of partner staff, teachers, and alumni.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization that inspires individuals of all backgrounds – across nationalities, races, ethnicity, religions, political views, economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, physical disabilities, languages, ages, genders and prior experiences – to bring their full selves to the work of ensuring educational opportunity for all.

In order to maximize our effectiveness in fulfilling Teach For All’s mission, we also feel it is important to focus on increasing representation and inclusiveness with respect to two dimensions in particular: we prioritize diversity of geography because this can help us quickly understand and connect with the diverse cultures and geographies of the world. We also prioritize increasing the representation and inclusiveness of team members who themselves have experienced the inequities we’re working to address by nature of sharing the background (e.g. economic, racial and ethnic, religious) of the most disadvantaged groups in their countries.

Position Summary

Teach For All’s 25-year vision commits us to “enabling all children to have the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future for themselves and all of us.” In the five years since we adopted this vision, it has become ever clearer that realizing this vision will require ensuring that gender-based barriers are removed as obstacles to girls’ education and leadership.

As the Global Head of Girls’ Education, you will lead our work to pursue gender equity across the network. You will build learning experiences, develop the leadership of others, and curate resources in order to support our network partner organizations, participants, alumni, students and other stakeholders. You will help partners’ staff, fellows, and alumni build strong insights, practices, and mindsets in the areas of girls’ education, gender-sensitive pedagogy, combating gender bias alongside communities, and becoming gender advocates.

You will work collectively with many leaders across Teach For All staff to integrate key girls’ education and gender equity best practices in teacher recruitment, training and leadership development support as well as be a key collaborator on our work around community impact.

Responsibilities

The Global Lead, Girls’ Education will understand and socialize network trends in what works for girls’ education. Working in collaboration with other Teach For All staff, you will create, execute, and disseminate best-in-class learning experiences, resources, and tools to support network partners. You will serve as an expert on this topic who supports our global organization to become an influential voice in the global girls’ education community as our impact and expertise deepens.

Strategy and Expertise

• Develop a global strategy for content, learning experiences, resources, partner support, and tools related to girls’ education, gender equity, and girls’ and women’s leadership
• Cultivate expertise in all topics related to girls’ education, including global insights, best practices, trends, new research, funding opportunities, and more

Content Development

• Lead the Global Girls’ Education Fellowship and Course, which supports hundreds of Fellows from around the world to promote girls’ education and pursue gender equity in their work
• Lead research and development of best practices in girls’ education by building relationships with key external stakeholders within and outside the network, piloting new practices alongside our partners, and synthesizing learning from those pilots

Collaboration

• Work across the global organization to foster collective ownership and investment around girls’ education
• Work with others to create opportunities to support women’s leadership across the Teach For All network, including the “Women in the Workplace” call series, the annual Women’s Gathering at the global conference, and other opportunities as needed
• Collaborate with other teams within Teach For All to create shared tools and resources, integrate our approaches to partner support, and provide direct support and input to partners staff where needed
• Work with our Connectors Team to build a network of global and regional girls’ education champions so they can support each other and accelerate their learning and impact

External Engagement

Help represent Teach For All’s Girls’ Education Initiative through media and public affairs opportunities as needed and appropriate, and raise the profile of partners, teachers, alums and students who are doing leading work in this area
Identify potential partnerships to support the global network’s Girls’ Education Initiative and local network partners

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience
• Experience in girls’ education or gender equity required
• Deep and broad understanding of Teach For All’s mission and programmatic approach
• Prior experience with one of our network partner organizations, either as a participant or staff member, is strongly preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to thrive in a high-energy, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial organization as part of a collaborative and committed team
• Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with colleagues globally, including a high volume of virtual engagement (i.e., conference calls, social media, virtual collaboration tools) and regular calls during non-traditional working hours
• Exceptional strategic thinking and reasoning skills — an orientation toward creativity and innovation, while also valuing cultural responsiveness and institutional knowledge
• Ability to be generative and  independently drive towards outcomes, demonstrating flexibility and shifting priorities as needed based on how the work evolves
• Ability to build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders from a range of cultures and understand their goals and motivations in order to drive effective operations
• Must have sensitivity toward racial, cultural, and ideological diversity

Compensation

• Salary for this position is competitive and dependent on country of hire, prior work experience and includes a comprehensive benefits package.
• Work Authorization
• Candidates for this position must possess local work authorization in order to be considered.
• Travel and Hours

Travel possible when it is safe to do so and in accordance with local travel guidelines. Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role.

• Apply now
• Please submit your resume and a one-page cover letter in English directly online.