Director, Organizational and Leadership Development at Teach For All

Teach For All is a global network of over 40 independent, locally led and governed partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the progress of the network. 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director, Organizational and Leadership Development

Ref #: 598
Location: Nigeria

Position Summary

• We are looking for a Director, Organizational and Leadership Development who will collaborate with our People, Organization and Culture (POC)  team and other leaders to shape and continually refine our strategy for developing an organization that is flexible and responsive to emerging priorities and that develops the leadership of our 140 staff across 18 countries in meeting our ambitious goals for growing the impact of our global network.
• This Director, Organizational and Leadership Development  will also execute on this strategy and implement initiatives in various areas including staff coaching, staff growth and development, performance management, staff engagement and developing a strong diverse and inclusive culture. He/she will work  with staff across Teach For All to provide professional development opportunities and coach team leaders and managers in creating and maintaining a strong organizational culture aligned to our core values.
  

Outcomes
Along with the Head of POC and other leaders, this Director, Organization and Leadership Development will ensure:

• A resilient organizational culture that is grounded in our vision, core values, intended outcomes and new ways of working. This is measured through qualitative feedback received through engagement survey or staff feedback
• Staff development systems and  mechanisms to align with our ways of working
• Increase staff engagement as measured by staff engagement survey, particularly related to questions surrounding professional development, leadership development, and career growth
• Increase retention of high contributing staff 
• Increase ability of leaders to support their staff’s contribution and impact, measured through staff feedback and qualitative focus groups and results

Responsibilities
Managing organizational evolution & culture change: Facilitate evolution of processes and structures as Teach For All works to move decision-making closer to the work, support flexible organization of people, and ensure staff access to effective coaching and leadership developmen:

• Collaborate with Head of POC to design and refine our strategy to evolve Teach For All into a more agile and responsive organization and create and implement the structures, mechanisms, mindsets and skill sets to align with strategy
• Advise Head of POC, team leaders and other strategic stakeholders within the organization on strategy, process, and implementation of this organizational change
• Advise and coach team leader, managers, coaches and staff on various topics such as:
  • Building a resilient team culture and embedding the new way of working in their teams
  • Change management
  • Managing teams with a coaching mindset
  • Supporting teams on their growth and development journey
  • Navigating organizational dynamics
  • Managing relationships
  • Building team culture
  • Staff career growth and development
• Create an interconnected community of team leaders, managers, coaches and sponsors who can support each other through organizational evolution
• Design, deliver and convene working groups to co-create initiatives and resources to support staff to possess the mindset and skill sets to work effectively in an agile organization, including programs around sponsorship, building internal coaches, designing personal leadership development series, evolving onboarding and developing resources
• Advise and thought partner with the Head of POC and team leaders on identifying strategic ways we can strengthen our professional development results, organizational culture and convene working groups to iterate to improve strategies and implementation.

Staff Growth & Development: Creating opportunities for our staff to grow and develop to make greater impact

• Coach team leaders, managers and sponsors to develop an organization centered around staff leadership development and growth
• Design,  implement and deliver initiatives to support growth and development of staff at all levels, which includes online and  in-person training and facilitation
• Co-manage POC’s Chief of Staff’s work and support on:
  • Designing strategy and implementing initiatives to support the development of junior staff,
  • Coaching junior staff
  • Designing fellowship program for our non-partner facing staff to either attend network learning trips or temporarily work with one of our partners on an initiative that both meets the needs of our partner and utilizes our staff member’s greatest strengths
• Ensure that our organization is a place where staff can access high quality individual and group learning experiences by collaborating cross-functionally with various internal stakeholders, including Head of POC, Program Strategy and Learning Specialist, Head of Leadership and Learning, Head of Organization Development and other team leaders

Performance Management:

• Ensure effective performance management process
• Continuously evolve our performance management process to align with our ways of working and to support staff’s own awareness of their overall performance and alignment with organizational core values

Develop, manage and support performance management process:

• Develop tools and processes for managing our performance management process, professional development, talent planning and individual development plans
• Enable staff to successfully execute performance management and professional development through training, coaching, and building of community of staff who support the overall process of coaching for performance and on giving and receiving feedback
• Support Head of People Operations in selecting and transitioning to new HRIS platform that is aligned with our ways of working
• Maintain and continue to evolve competency model and leadership development framework to ensure they are aligned with organizational paradigms and core values by engaging with internal stakeholders to understand their experience and external stakeholders, maintaining the online “leadership library” resources for staff development, and aligning existing tools with new paradigms.

Advising our people/managers on different employment matters:

• Serve as Head of POC’s thought partner on organizational culture and talent planning
• Support Head of POC in internal POC team strategy, including retreat planning, team performance and development, team culture, project management
• Support Head of POC in crafting materials for Teach For All Board and other internal and external stakeholders
• Coach managers through performance challenges and performance improvement plans
• Support Organization Development team in their partner-facing work in professional development, staff engagement, management and leadership, and leading self, including drafting and supporting creation of knowledge products and some direct partner engagement and support

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 10+ years of professional experience within human assets/human resource and organizational development/organizational design is required
• Experience in agile / responsive / teal organizations preferred
• Experience with organizational change management required
• Experience creating and/or facilitating adult learning
• Experience with one or more of the following prefered: coaching staff, creating/facilitating staff onboarding; creating/managing organizational or team-based communications, building/facilitating organizational or team culture or championing/leading diversity and inclusiveness initiatives

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Strong communication and listening skills both in-person and over the phone/email/Skype to effectively understand diverse people as well as synthesize and present to a diverse audiences with a range of perspectives on issues where they likely don't agree
• Strong strategic thinking; ability to zoom out and see patterns in data or dive-in and think through challenges on individual roles
• Ability to manage multiple activities concurrently and independently as well as project manage and convene others to achieve results without direct authority
• Outstanding sense of personal ownership, results-focus, detail-orientation and follow-up
• Ability to influence others outside of direct management relationships
• Deep belief in our mission and a strong conviction about the connection between how we operate internally and our ultimate intended impact
• Prior experience living outside one’s home country and additional languages a plus, but not required

Exemplifies Teach For All’s core values:

• Sense of Possibility: We believe in the extraordinary potential of all children and in our collective potential to realize our aspirations, and so we act with courage, boldness, urgency and perseverance in pursuit of transformational impact.
• Locally Rooted and Globally Informed: We value the enormous assets in the communities where we work, immerse ourselves in local perspectives, needs and opportunities, and work in deep partnership with students, families, educators, and community members—all while also seeking to build our understanding of what is possible based on insights from outside of our communities and countries.
• Constant Learning: We commit to continuous education, reflection and improvement as the foundation for the transformational leadership we strive to develop.
• Diversity & Inclusiveness: We seek to ensure full participation of people from all cultures and backgrounds, and we believe those who have themselves experienced the inequities we’re working to address should guide and lead this work.
• Interdependence: In recognition of our shared humanity and interconnectedness, we work with generosity and compassion to help each other develop and grow.

Travel and Hours:

• Travel will be required to other Teach For All hub locations, approximately 2-3 times per year. Given that we work across every different time zone, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role.

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

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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