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About Teach For America

Teach For All is a new organization that will support entrepreneurs in other countries who are pursuing the development of the Teach For America and Teach First models locally. These local organizations aim to build the movement to end educational inequity in their countries by calling upon their top recent college graduates to commit two years to teach in high-poverty areas and to become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of expanding educational opportunity. Teach For All was created as a partnership between Teach For America and Teach First and is being incubated as a separate organization within Teach For America.

Local adaptations of Teach For America and Teach First will be established as independent, locally governed, locally-funded organizations. Teach For All will help these local organizations access the knowledge base, tools, and resources that Teach For America and Teach First have developed over time, provided the local organizations establish and maintain certain core programmatic principles and conditions. Over time, Teach For All will grow into a global network of like organizations that will share best practices and involve tens of thousands of top global leaders seeking to collectively maximize their impact in fighting educational inequity.

More than 5,000 Teach For America (www.teachforamerica.org) corps members are teaching in 26 urban and rural regions in the United States, while over 12,000 alumni continue working for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence for all children. Teach First (www.teachfirst.org.uk), an adaptation of Teach For America in the U.K., currently fields more than 500 participants in London, Greater Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham, and its alumni also continue on as leaders in working to expand educational opportunity.

Summary:

We are seeking a country manager in Australia who will manage our engagement with and support of Teach For Australia through its pre-launch, launch and ongoing phases of development, and will act as our day-to-day liaison with Teach For Australia. This position provides an exceptional opportunity for an individual with superior leadership, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills to serve as a key contributor on an extremely important initiative and help shape both Teach For Australia’s future as well as the global organization’s long-term strategy. This individual will be based in Australia and report to the vice president of the country relations team.


Teach For All’s country relations team is responsible for (i) engaging with a pipeline of countries from the point in time that they approach the global organization, and providing countries with varying levels of support depending upon their level of progress along the continuum of global support, and (ii) determining when the necessary preconditions have been met for a certain local organization to become part of the global network and start receiving its full support. Once a country is deemed to be sufficiently far along in its development to warrant active engagement by the global organization, as is the case with Australia, a full-time on-site country manager will act as the liaison between the global and local offices, facilitating access to and engagement in:
• Resources of the global country support team, which is responsible for helping local countries access the tools, systems, and knowledge base of Teach For America and Teach First in programmatic areas (teacher recruitment, selection, pre-service and ongoing professional development, and alumni affairs), in growth strategy and development, and in marketing, technology, and organizational development;
• Global resources such as the alumni networks of Teach For America and Teach First, and relationships with multi-national companies that could be sources of funding and recruitment partnerships; and
• The global performance management system.

The country manager will also serve as a general resource to the local country leader and organization in launching and maximizing the impact of the organization.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Pre-launch Phase
• Acting as “thought partner” to local leadership in Australia on specific program design questions and in the planning process in general
• Sharing Teach For America’s off-the-shelf tools, systems, and knowledge base as codified by the country support team, and facilitating discussions with country support experts in order to foster local understanding of the Teach For America model
• Serving as a resource in leveraging local financial, community and governmental support
• Bringing to bear global organizational resources (such as access to the Teach For America and Teach First alumni bases, and to multi-national companies interested in funding and recruitment partnerships)

Launch Phase
• Coordinating with global country support team to ensure that Teach For Australia receives sufficient support from relevant experts in global country support team
• Serving as a resource in program design and execution of the local model
• Supporting implementation of the relevant performance management systems and processes
• Helping build and maintain relationships with local stakeholders
• Providing general support to each local leadership team (e.g., evaluating potential staff), and supporting launch process in every possible manner to ensure the successful and timely launch of the local organization

Ongoing
• Monitoring performance of Teach For Australia and its participants, and serving as an ongoing resource in ensuring that they are maximizing impact through leveraging support from the global organization as well as from other local organizations
• Facilitating receipt of global benefits (e.g., helping coordinate exchange program, ensuring participation in conferences)
• Ensuring inclusion of local entity in global organization (e.g., participation in advisory committees)
• Helping problem-solve issues that arise, grounded in an understanding of the local context as well as in the global core principles
• Managing relationships among individuals with diverse points of view
• Acting as a resource to other staff members in the global organization as well as to other local countries.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Ability to deeply understand the local context as well as the global organization’s core principles
• Ability to be visionary, strategic, and analytical
• Ability to develop strong relationships with diverse individuals, and to influence and motivate others
• Strong operating instincts developed through general management or consulting experience
• Sensitivity to racial, cultural and ideological diversity
• Prior Teach For America/Teach First experience, either as a participant or a staff member, required
• Some background and/or work experience related to the Australia required
• Prior experience living and/or working abroad required

Compensation:

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience and includes a comprehensive benefits package.



We review applications on a rolling basis. Please submit your resume and a one-page cover letter with your application.

Apply now at http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TEACHFORAMERICA&cws=1&rid=1754