Location: Flexible, Latin America
Last Date: May 13, 2010
Staff Opportunity
Vice President, Regional Growth Strategy and Development – Latin America
Location: Flexible, Latin America
Team: Growth Strategy and Development Team
Start date: Immediately
Status: Exempt
Summary
Teach For All seeks a Vice President of Regional Growth, Strategy, and Development for Latin America to build stakeholders’ understanding of and support for Teach For All’s model in the region, support social entrepreneurs who are at the early stages of pursuing the development of this model in their countries and secure the funding necessary for Teach For All’s support of all partner organizations in the region. The Vice President will report to the Vice President of Growth Strategy and Development and reside in Latin America.
Team Overview
Teach For All’s growth strategy and development team is responsible for raising funds to cover the expenses of Teach For All’s support of local organizations. This team also manages the relationship between social entrepreneurs aspiring to launch local organizations and Teach For All’s global network from the time an entrepreneur initiates contact with Teach For All until his/her local organization has developed a final business plan. During the early stage process the growth strategy and development team assesses alignment between the mission of the local organization and the resources of the network, facilitates the local organization’s development of a strategic business plan and partners with the social entrepreneur who is leading the local organization to identify and secure financial resources for Teach For All’s support of the new organization.
Teach For All launched in 2007 and currently supports 9 countries. Based on existing global demand, Teach For All is preparing to support between 13 and 16 countries in 2010 and between 18 and 21 countries in 2011. To fuel this anticipated growth, Teach For All needs to raise approximately $12 million in 2010 and $14 million in 2011.
Teach For All currently supports one partner organization in Latin America, Enseña Chile, which launched in 2008. Additionally, the network plans to support social entrepreneurs in Peru, who are in the early stages of building their organizations and will place teachers in classrooms in 2010. Teach For All is also supporting several other social entrepreneurs throughout Latin America as they explore the feasibility of this model in their context.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
1. Building understanding of and support for Teach For All’s model in the region including financial resources necessary for Teach For All’s engagement (60%)
a. Networking with regional leaders in the philanthropic, public and private sectors, and education communities to introduce and build support for Teach For All’s model.
b. Raising all funds necessary for Teach For All’s early stage and ongoing support of local programs in the region, which may range anywhere from $1 to $3 million in 2009-2010 annually depending on the number of social entrepreneurs interested in pursuing the model
c. Working in concert with Teach For All staff on the ground in Latin American countries to recognize adaptation patterns within the region and design ways for those understandings to influence how Teach For All successfully operates within the region.
d. Seeding the idea among high-potential entrepreneurs, which may include presenting at regional and/or national conferences, establishing press contacts with media outlets in the region, and engaging with relevant associations in the region that may be aligned with Teach For All’s objectives.
2. Supporting social entrepreneurs who are at the early stages of pursuing the development of this model in their countries (30%)
a. Meeting with self-identified entrepreneurs, guiding them through the process of writing a business plan, including helping them understand Teach For All’s unifying principles and develop a vision for adaptation of the model to the local context.
b. Sharing Teach For All’s tools, systems and knowledge base with local entrepreneurs.
c. Acting as a thought partner to local entrepreneurs on the questions and issues that arise during the planning process.
d. Facilitating visits between newly interested, serious entrepreneurs and current partner and/or member organizations.
e. Engaging with alumni from the network who have backgrounds in this region to connect them with local social entrepreneurs.
3. Liaising with the country relations team to help transition entrepreneurs to the partnership stage, at which point their organization will receive full-time on-the-ground support from the country relations team (10%)
Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of five years of work experience preferred
• Prior international and/or fundraising experience preferred
• Prior experience with one of our network partner organizations, either as a participant or staff member is preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Fluency in Spanish required and Portuguese highly preferred
• Ability to deeply understand the local context as well as the Teach For All’s theory of change
• Exemplifies Teach For All’s core values of being results driven, entrepreneurship, respect and humility, collective impact, and integrity and a commitment to Teach For All’s mission
• Ability to be visionary, strategic, and analytical
• Ability to develop strong relationships with diverse individuals, and to influence and motivate others
• Ability to develop strategic plan in a start-up environment and execute successfully against that plan while working remotely
• Must be values-driven, self-motivated, and critically thinking with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Must have sensitivity to racial, cultural and ideological diversity
Compensation
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.
Apply now
Please submit a one-page cover letter and resume directly online
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TEACHFORALL&cws=1&rid=21
About Teach For All
Teach For All- www.teachforallnetwork.org - is an international network whose mission is to expand educational opportunity internationally by increasing and accelerating the impact of its members – independent social enterprises that enlist their nation’s most promising future leaders in addressing educational need. Member organizations call upon their nations’ top recent college graduates, of all academic disciplines, to commit two years to teach in high-poverty areas and to become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of expanding educational opportunity.
The founding members of Teach For All are Teach For America and Teach First in the U.K., and there are other partnering organizations in Australia, Chile, Estonia, Germany, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania and South Africa. Teach For All enables members to have an impact internationally by leveraging their resources and experience to help other member enterprises tackle common challenges.
Teach For All’s strategy is informed by the belief that maximizing the scale, teacher and alumni impact, and strength of these enterprises will be a function of two things:
- Partnering with strong, independent social entrepreneurs who are committed to addressing educational need through pursuing the mission that unites members of Teach For All; these entrepreneurs must be committed to the unifying principles which have proven critical to this model’s success, have a vision for adapting the model to their local context, and collaborate closely with government, education, and the private sector
- Building a strong global support network that offers technical assistance, access to global resources, and a forum for sharing and programmatic exchanges among teachers, alumni and programs.
Today, Teach For All has a $5 million budget and a staff of 25. Based in New York City, its staff members work out of ten countries. The organization was recognized with a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 and has significant financial support from The HSBC Global Education Trust, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the Nduna Foundation, New Profit Inc./Monitor Group, and Visa Inc.
Ultimately, Teach For All aims to foster the development of powerful movements to ensure educational opportunity for all in countries around the world. Already, this model has proven to be a powerful catalyst in the United States and in the U.K. Today, more than 6,000 Teach For America (www.teachforamerica.org) corps members are teaching in 29 urban and rural regions in the United States, while 14,000 alumni continue working for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence for all children. Teach First (www.teachfirst.org.uk) 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.
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