Director of Training and Support

DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND SUPPORT

Employment Type:     Full time, based in Tây Ninh Province with traveling to HCMC
Start date:        As soon as possible
Report to:        Founder/ CEO

Mission for the Role

The Director of Training and Support will be responsible for developing and executing Teach For Vietnam's vision for training and supporting Fellows as transformational teachers in the classroom and community and as transformational leaders who continue to work to address educational inequity in Vietnam after their two years of teaching.

Important Note: Require strong English teaching/ pedagogy experience

Duties and Responsibilities

Pre-Service Training Design

• Work with several other advisory board members and specialists to develop a feasible plan and materials to train Fellows as teachers prior to their two-year service in the classroom; the plan will be showcased to several stakeholders such as governments at different levels, the Ministry of Education and Training, corporate partners, university partners, potential Fellows and the general public
• Strategize and come up with a strong training plan and materials covering relevant education philosophy and pedagogical concepts that will get buy-in from several of the aforementioned stakeholders

Pre-Service Training

• Oversee planning and execution of pre-service training for Fellows
• Recruit, train, and manage high-performing team of Leadership Development Officers (LDOs)
• Develop training calendar, content and manuals
• Develop and oversee budget for pre-service training
• Work alongside LDOs to execute pre-service training, including facilitating sessions and bringing in external resources as necessary

Ongoing Training and Support

• Plan and ensure effective ongoing training and support for Fellows:
  
  • Determine priorities and measures of success for Fellows and students
  • Continue to train and manage Leadership Development Officer team
  • Oversee training calendar for Fellows and communication to Fellows
  • Create and implement systems to effectively measure student impact and evaluate the effectiveness of training and support for Fellows
  • Provide information and briefings as necessary to whole team and external parties

• Develop an ambitious and feasible vision for alumni impact and plan for implementation
  
  • Identify critical sectors and roles through which alumni can make systemic impact on educational inequity
  • Liaise with diverse stakeholders across multiple sectors (including academic, development, policy, and corporate) in order to build leadership pathways for alumni
  • Seek out and create opportunities for professional exposure, development and mentorship during their two years of service to prepare Fellows for success as alumni

• Cultivate and maintain strong and positive staff and Fellow culture

Other Duties

Because we are a start-up organization, every staff member in our organization is expected to pitch in as needed outside of his/her department as well. This would include, for example, helping with the selection of Fellows, supporting our recruitment effort, and executing other strategies essential to the success of our mission.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from reputable university (Vietnam or international)

• 7-10 years of prior experience in providing professional training in education:
  
  • Developing curriculum in English, educational sector OR
  • Developing and executing training modules for teachers OR
  • Teaching/supervising teaching as a principal

• Desire to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, results-oriented culture
• Strong alignment to Teach For Vietnam mission, vision and core values
• Exceptional written and spoken communication skills in English
• Fluent communication in Vietnamese
• Two professional references

Preferred Qualifications

• Mission and Values Alignment
  
  • Deeply understands the mission of Teach For Vietnam and strongly believes that every child can learn and achieve high results
  • Embodies our core values
  • Has prior experience with one of the Teach For All partner organizations, either as a participant or staff member

• Operating and Managing
  
  • Have knowledge of both English instruction pedagogy and social emotional learning framework
  • Is able to develop and execute an ambitious and complex Leadership Development strategy efficiently
  • Is able to effectively operate independently and as part of a team in a high-intensity, high-uncertainty start-up environment
  • Is highly organized and has proven time management skills and experience with creating efficient systems to juggle multiple projects simultaneously
  • Has past success managing teams to achieve ambitious results

• Building Relationships and Influencing Others
  
  • Is able to build and sustain strong relationships quickly with a diverse pool of individuals
  • Is able to engagingly present to small and large groups

• Reasoning and Strategic Thinking
  
  • Has experience collecting, analyzing and using data to inform strategic and tactical decisions
  • Is able to flexibly adjust strategy when unexpected obstacles emerge

About Teach For All

Teach For All is a global network of independent organizations that promote educational opportunity by enlisting their nations' future leaders to teach for two years in their high-need communities and become lifelong leaders for educational excellence and equity. Teach For All’s mission is to expand educational opportunity internationally by accelerating the impact of the partner organizations in its network. It achieves this by providing direct support services and fostering a powerful network among the programs and their participants, with the goal of maximizing the organizations' scale, participant impact and learning, alumni leadership, and organizational strength. Teach For All’s network includes 44 independent organizations by April 2017.

About Teach For Vietnam

Teach For Vietnam is a partner of Teach For All. As an independent, locally led not-for-profit organization, Teach For Vietnam enlists the most promising future leaders from multiple industries to create more educational opportunities for all children in Vietnam. Participants in the programme, known as Fellows, serve as full-time teachers for two years in high-need schools across Vietnam and commit to transforming the education outcomes of less-privileged schoolchildren through significantly improving their achievement and aspirations. In the long term, after 2 years of teaching and fitting in with the community, these former teachers from different industries will collectively create a wave of change to achieve education equity and excellence for all children in Vietnam.

How to apply

More details available at our website: teachforvietnam.org/work-with-tfv/

Please send your resume and a letter of intent in English to [email protected], with the subject title "Application for Director of Training and Support Position_Your Name".

Due to the high volume of applications received, we are sorry that we cannot reply to unsuccessful applicants.

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis to identify appropriate candidates as soon as possible.

Deadline: July 10, 2017