About the Role
The Global Leadership & Development Team ensures that our frontline staff (Teachers, Academy Managers, and Principals) possess the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to be leaders in their roles and achieve access to excellent education for children across the globe. We accomplish this though providing professional development support and tools for the 5000 teachers and 540 Academy Managers/Principals works wide. We accomplish this through globally building a myriad of interventions that are executed locally including but not limited to: initial training, ongoing coaching support, continued professional development opportunities, supporting knowledge sharing, building tools, training-the-trainers, and fostering communities of practice.
In joining the Leadership & Development team you are joining the group charged with ensuring that our frontline staff are exceptional leaders who are energized and empowered to ensure the kids in their communities and classrooms receive an excellent education. The team is laser focused on outcomes, inherently collaborative in nature, loves fostering the leadership in others, is unwaveringly committed to ensuring a quality education for our pupils, are lifelong learners, get excited about creating incredible learning interventions that drive positive behavior and mindset change in adults. You will flourish on this team if you are: a team player, hyper-focused on results, flexible in a dynamic environment, and have fun while working hard.
Responsibilities
Ensure our teacher quality is second to none
Assess the impact, through routine data analysis and in person observation, our teachers are having on the lives of kids and communities
Continually improve our global teacher profile to ensure that we are selecting the strongest possible candidates for our classrooms globally
Conduct a needs assessments of teacher performance to ensure that gaps in performance are quickly addressed
Collaborate with our learning team to ensure that teacher quality gaps are addressed by the appropriate intervention
Collaborate across Academics and Customer Experience on the authoring of policy to support strong teacher performance
Collaborate with M&E team on the measurement of teacher performance and impact
Build or collaborate on the building of tools for the selection and evaluation of teacher performance
Requirements
Possess a natural curiosity that doesn’t settle for the first answer being the correct answer – wants to seek root causes
Obsessed with the craft (theory and application) of teaching – great teaching is your life’s passion
Love to immerse yourself in another country and culture to get to understand a situation from multiple perspectives
Know what makes a teacher great
Passion for educational excellence
Strong relationship building skills
Ability to effectively advocate for teacher quality in a resource constrained environment
A natural listener
Experience with classroom teaching
Bachelor’s Degree in education or sociology
Willingness to travel 50-60+%
