Chief of Staff, Asia Pacific Job in New Zealand Recruiting by TeachForAll Inc

Position Summary

Teach For All is looking for a strategic, proactive, and highly organised individual to join the Asia Pacific team as our regional Chief of Staff. This role sits at the centre of our programmatic operations in Asia Pacific, and is responsible for managing the systems, communications, and administrative tasks that support the Head of Region and the Asia Pacific regional team in their work with Teach For All partners and prospective partners across the region, and in their collaboration with Teach For All’s global teams. This position works very closely with the Asia Pacific Head of Region and Senior Director of Program to enable effective coordination . The right candidate will demonstrate exceptional organization, communication, problem-solving, and project management skills.

The core responsibilities of this position involve designing and managing the operational and programmatic systems that support the work, progress, and collaborations of the Asia Pacific Head of Region, regional team, and partners. The Chief of Staff maintains an overall picture of progress across the region towards Teach For All’s vision and intended outcomes, and drives all the back-end coordination, communication, and collaboration routines and systems that enable learning and adaptation along the way. Overall, this is a critical support role, central to enabling the Asia Pacific Head of Region, team and region to work effectively together through exceptional strategic planning and operational delivery, organizational management, and collaboration within and across teams.

The Asia Pacific Regional Team

The Teach For All Asia Pacific team is a regionally distributed team with team members located across different countries in the region, currently including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Singapore and New Zealand. The team works across one of the largest, most diverse and dynamic regions in the Teach For All global network, with 15 partner organizations in the following countries (in addition to several more prospective partner organizations in the pipeline): Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. In the regional Chief of Staff role, you will be at the centre of a team that is working to grow and accelerate the impact of this community of partners, and generate awareness and support for Teach For All’s vision and mission in the wider region.

Outcomes

The Chief of Staff, Asia Pacific will work towards the following:

Responsibilities

The Chief of Staff is responsible for:

Strategic Support & Project Delivery (30%)

Systems & Operations Management (20%)

Data Analysis & Integration (20%)

Culture & Communication  (20%)

Special Projects & Events  (10%)

The Chief of Staff reports to the Head of the Asia Pacific Region, and collaborates closely with members of the Asia Pacific regional team and with other regional and global teams at Teach For All.

As the ideal candidate, you will bring:

What Teach For All Offers:

Compensation

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

Work authorization

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. All candidates must possess permanent local work authorization/permit in order to be considered.

Travel and Hours

All work is delivered virtually. Some travel expected, roughly 5-10%, mostly within the region with occasional travel out-of-region to attend Teach For All global conferences. Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role.

Application Instructions

If this opportunity sounds like the next best step in your career, please submit your resume or curriculum vitae 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.

About Teach For All

Teach For All is a global network of independent, locally led and governed partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the progress of the network. 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 supporting the development of new organizations; fostering network connectivity and learning; providing coaching and consulting; and enabling access to global resources for the benefit of the network.

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.