Academy & Community Designer

Academy & Community Designer

Hiring 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.

Qualifications 

• 7 or more years of experience designing virtual learning offers that are interactive and learner-centered 
•  Hold a degree in education or a related field, such as psychology, social work, human development, or any discipline focused on learning, teaching, or community support.
• Experience with ways of working that center diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, and fosters the leadership of all staff members
• Strong facilitation skills in a virtual environment—able to co-facilitate discussions, orientation calls, and workshops.
• Strategic thinking on learner engagement & recruitment—beyond just course design.
• Ability to build relationships virtually across cultures 
• Ability to priorities and coordinate multiple competing workstreams/priorities with little guidance 
• Strong ability to manage up and across without formal authority 
• Comfort with qualitative research & storytelling (if supporting community impact efforts).

What Teach For All Offers:

• Commitment to cultivating a culture in which all staff members feel they belong, are valued for their contributions, and have an impact on our organization’s progress 
• Professional and personal development experiences and ample opportunities to make a positive impact on the work of Teach For All and beyond  

• Comprehensive benefits package designed for your well-being and work-life needs 
• Generous time off and flexible work arrangements
• And much more! 

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! 

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Therefore, candidates are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience.

Work authorization

This position does not offer employment visa sponsorship, immigration assistance, or support for work permits or residency applications. To be considered, candidates must already possess valid work and residency authorization to work in the country of hire at the time of application. 

Compensation

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

Travel and Hours

All work is delivered virtually. Up to 10% of travel may be required.  Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role.  

About Teach For All

Teach For All is a global network of 64 independent, locally led organizations and a global organization united by a commitment to developing collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential. Each network partner recruits and develops promising leaders to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, towards a world where all children have the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future. 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

As a network, Teach For All believes that fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion is key to achieving our vision. We believe those who have themselves experienced the inequities we’re working to address should guide and lead this work. At the global organization we value diverse experiences and are committed to cultivating a culture in which all staff members feel they belong, are valued for their contributions, and have an impact on our organization’s progress.

These beliefs inform Teach For All’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion:

• Representing the communities we work alongside
• Fostering a sense of belonging in all of our staff members
• Growing diversity, equity, and inclusion awareness  
• Ensuring our systems, processes, and practices are rooted in equity and inclusion with space to reflect as a whole organization on our progress