Global Lead, AI for Programmatic Impact

Position Summary

To advance Teach For All's 25-year vision, we are seeking a Global Lead, AI for Programmatic Impact, whose primary focus is unlocking the potential of our network partners' use of AI to accelerate their programmatic impact. At its heart, this role is about helping partners use AI to have a bigger impact on the children and communities they serve — and doing that by connecting partners with each other, providing direct advisory support, capturing and sharing insights across the network, and potentially managing a subgrant fund through which partners could apply for resources to accelerate their AI programs. 

This is a role for someone who enables, connects, inspires, and learns alongside others. It will require deep partnerships across the organisation and network, with programmatic specialists, regional teams,  technology colleagues, and the partners themselves. It also requires helping to convene and align the various people across Teach For All's global organization working on AI, ensuring our collective efforts are mutually reinforcing and coherently communicated, and upholding the network standards for responsible AI use, ensuring partners have the resources and support to use AI safely and in alignment with our shared values.

This role provides consulting and advisory support with no direct authority over Partners, who are independent organisations with their own governance structures, making relationship-building, flexibility, and the ability to bridge technical and programmatic content essential.

Success in this role will be reflected in:

• The degree to which partners are using AI innovatively and safely to advance their programmatic impact
• The vibrancy and connectedness of AI learning communities across the network

Evidence of strong ethical grounding and responsible AI governance across partner organizations

About the Team

The Collective Learning and Consulting (CLC) team is a diverse group of over 25 staff members with an array of expertise, ranging from teacher recruitment and professional development to governance to public/private sector partnerships. In collaboration with others, the CLC team drives aggregate impact across the network by:

• Distilling and sharing insights
• Designing and facilitating meaningful learning opportunities and communities in virtual, in-person, and blended spaces
• Providing tailored coaching and consulting to early-stage entrepreneurs and current network partners
• Contributing insights on education, leadership, and system change to the broader global ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: 

1) Enable Partners to Use AI for Greater Programmatic Impact 

The core of this role is helping network partners harness AI to deepen and accelerate their impact. This person will keep a close pulse on how partners are innovating, help them innovate more, and ensure they are doing it safely, which includes: 

• 1:1 advisory and consulting support: Meet regularly with partners to understand their AI ambitions and challenges, provide tailored guidance, and help them develop and strengthen their AI strategies and practices
• Learning experiences and community spaces: In collaboration with others, create and facilitate virtual and in-person learning communities and convenings for CEOs, heads of technology, and other leaders around topics such as child safety, AI innovation, and AI policy
• Capturing and sharing insights: Proactively learn from partner innovations across the network and make key insights, case studies, and resources available via the network portal; connect partners pursuing similar questions so they can learn from each other

Collaboration with programmatic specialists: Work alongside functional specialists (e.g. in teacher training, alumni, selection) to bring an AI lens to their communities and help catalyze conversations about how AI can strengthen specific programmatic functions

Build and buy guidance: In collaboration with IT colleagues, help partners think through what to build vs. buy; stay current on the landscape of AI tools and surface recommendations for technologies that could address consistent partner needs

Subgrant fund: Explore the possibility of creating a fund to enable partners’ AI innovation, and collaborate with colleagues on the sub-granting team to define the parameters of that fund and to act as the programmatic lead for the fund

Network standard for responsible AI use: Ensure partners have the resources, frameworks, and support they need to meet Teach For All's network standard for safe and values-aligned AI use, including on topics such as child safeguarding, data privacy, and AI governance

2) Convene and Connect Internal AI Efforts 

AI innovation is happening across Teach For All's global organization. This role will help ensure those efforts are mutually reinforcing rather than siloed: 

• Convene the people across our organization working on AI (e.g., teachers, alumni, cross-border learning, internal team tech innovation, and more) to ensure we are advancing holistically and communicating clearly about our collective progress
• Inspire and connect internal teams, helping surface what we are each learning and identifying opportunities for greater coherence and collaboration

3) Contribute to Teach For All's Broader Organizational Progress 

• Actively collaborate across regional and functional teams, lending expertise to key organizational priorities and ensuring global AI progress is integrated into Teach For All's broader knowledge and operations 

Qualifications

We are looking for a leader who brings both a genuine understanding of AI and its deployment and a deep commitment to and understanding of Teach For All's work and the communities we serve. The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Work Experience: 8 to 10 years of experience in AI, tech, or programmatic roles, ideally globally and in diverse, low bandwidth settings
• Network Connection: An alum of a Teach For All network partner organization, or someone who has worked for or closely with a network partner, is highly preferred. A deep understanding of our programmatic work and the contexts in which our partners operate is essential
• AI Expertise: Demonstrated understanding of AI tools, technologies, and their real-world deployment, with the ability to bridge technical and programmatic content for diverse audiences, including those without a technical background
• Coaching and Consulting Skills: Strong coaching and consulting skills, with a proven ability to support leaders and organizations to grow and improve through strong relationships and expertise
• Relationship Building: Exceptional interpersonal skills and a proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with multiple stakeholders across cultures, spaces, and lines of difference
• Communication: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to facilitate group calls, lead virtual and in-person convenings, and develop clear and compelling written knowledge products. Ability to communicate in English required, and proficiency in one or more additional languages preferred 
• Strategic Problem-Solving: A genuine love of strategic, messy challenges, with a demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, identify opportunities, and implement innovative and culturally responsive solutions

Commitment to Teach For All's Mission: Deep personal commitment to and nuanced understanding of Teach For All's purpose, theory of change, Unifying Principles, and Core Values, with the ability to foster understanding and investment of these among diverse stakeholders

Ethics and Learning: Experience with or strong curiosity about the ethical dimensions of AI, including equity, data privacy, and child safeguarding. Experience designing learning experiences across diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds is a strong plus

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 the next best 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

This role is primarily virtual, with an estimated 3-4 trips per year, though this may vary. 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 over 60 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.