Regional Director, Network Engagement Job in New Zealand Recruiting by TeachForAll Inc

Position Summary

The global Teach For All network is looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to support a diverse group of network and prospective partner organizations in the Asia Pacific region. As the Regional Director, Network Engagement for APAC, you will steward Teach For All engagement with 5-7 of the region’s partner organizations and prospective partner CEOs, working to build and deepen relationships and collaborations across the region, and to accelerate impact and learning across your portfolio of CEOs and partner organizations. This is essentially a senior consultant & portfolio manager role, responsible for working closely with non-profit executives and senior teams across APAC to establish credibility, diagnose needs and opportunities, consult on strategic challenges, and mobilize resources. The role also involves extensive collaboration, working alongside a strong and experienced team of colleagues who are based in remote work locations across the region and world to leverage existing knowledge and to maximize impact and learning.

Current Teach For All partners in the Asia Pacific region include Teach For Afghanistan, Teach For Australia, Teach For Bangladesh, Teach For Cambodia, Teach For China, Teach For India, Teach For Japan, Teach For Malaysia, Teach For Mongolia, Teach For Nepal, Ako Mātātupu (Teach First New Zealand), Teach for the Philippines, Teach For Thailand, Teach For Vietnam, and Teach For Qazaqstan. In addition, the Asia Pacific team is supporting several entrepreneurs and groups in additional contexts across the region who are pursuing partnership in the network, for example in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan. The Network Engagement Director will be joining our efforts to support these partner organizations and prospective partner organizations as part of our Asia Pacific regional team, which aims to grow the capacity and impact of Teach For All’s work across the region overall. 

The right candidate is a visionary leader with experience of making sound strategic decisions that drive impact in complex and changing environments, alongside working collaboratively with team members. This person can build a strong relationship and culture among stakeholders and influence results through others. The right candidate must have a proven ability to work effectively across contexts and cultures, operate flexibly, and navigate ambiguity with ease. The right candidate is someone who has a deep familiarity living and working in the Asia Pacific region and has a strong orientation toward diversity, equity and inclusiveness. 

About the Team

The Teach For All Asia Pacific team is a regionally distributed team with team members working remotely across diverse countries in the region, currently including India, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Singapore and New Zealand. The team is composed primarily of staff members responsible for our engagement with prospective partners and partner organizations across the Asia Pacific region, and for our work to elevate awareness and grow support for the Teach For All network with regional external stakeholders and partners.

Responsibilities 

Qualifications

What Teach For All Offers

Compensation

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

Work Authorization

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

Travel and Hours 

Travel possible, approximately 30% 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. 

Applications 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 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 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.