Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Remote locations: Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand
Position Summary
To advance Teach For All’s 25-year vision, we are seeking an Academy & Community Designer to help advance the Global Institute’s vision, and to play a key role in shaping the learning experience and community engagement for the Global Institute’s Academy. This role is focused on designing, curating, and enhancing virtual learning offerings, strengthening the learner pipeline, and fostering alumni engagement and community impact.
By strengthening learning design and engagement strategies, we ensure that every Academy participant is meaningfully connected, engaged, and supported to drive long-term impact
The Academy & Community Designer will play a vital role in supporting the Global Institute's mission to be a center of global learning, connection, and collective leadership development. This position will focus on the practical implementation and day-to-day management of the Academy's virtual learning programs. This includes designing engaging learning experiences, managing the registration and selection process for workshops and courses, and fostering a strong community among learners.
About the role
In this role you will work closely with course designers, facilitators, communications, and regional teams, ensuring that the Academy’s offerings are participant-centered, strategically positioned, and continuously improved. Additionally, the role may support efforts related to community impact storytelling, case studies, and knowledge sharing.
This role contributes to the Institute's goal of shaping classrooms, schools, and systems to holistically develop students, particularly those in marginalised communities. The Academy seeks to achieve this by ensuring that all parts of the education system have access to knowledge, skills and resources. To make a sustained shift in their practice and positive impact in the communities they serve.
Across Teach For All, we are working towards a vision that one day, all children will have the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future. We have launched the Global Institute for Shaping a Better Future to contribute to this paradigm shift.
Key Responsibilities
- This role reports to the Director of the Academy to support various efforts to:
- Contribute to the development of strategies to attract a diverse and committed cohort of learners for each Academy offering.
- Assists in delivering and updating specific workshop offerings based on identified organizational needs, facilitating engagement with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the design and facilitation of high-quality, engaging, and impactful virtual learning experiences.
- Gathers feedback and tracks participation in post-programme activities to inform learner engagement strategies and support the growth of the alumni network.
Instructional Design (50%)
- Manage the workflow for registration and selection of participants in workshops, courses, and fellowships, processing applications and communications
- Manage the workshop open calls, selection, etc. to ensure we have a robust and diverse set of high quality workshops
- Support workshop and course designers (both full time staff and contractors) to build high quality learning experiences by offering coaching and feedback
- In collaboration with others, build a robust pipeline of potential learners for the Academy including:
- Recruitment
- Brand awareness
- Collaborate with Teach For All Communications team
- Coordinate collaborating with regional teams, partners and alumni networks
- Co-Coordinate orientation calls
Project Coordination (40%)
- Support Chief Learning Officers and their community impact by the generation of case studies, videos, and other materials and examples
- Coordinate research and learning efforts related to community impact.
- Host spaces (e.g., virtual meetings, webinars) related to community impact.
- Manage the engagement of “alumni” across the Academy offerings — fostering community, sharing content, encouraging deepening of engagement over time
Institute Alignment (10%)
- Support efforts to ensure the full and sustained alignment across the Global Institute
- Attendance and contribution to meetings
- Incorporate and uphold Health & Safety, DEI, and other relevant processes and policies within your responsibilities and professional conduct
- Participate in relevant Network events.
Application Instructions
If this opportunity sounds like an ideal next 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!
