Director of Data and Strategic Planning at Teach For All

Position Summary

• To help live into Teach For All’s purpose and advance progress towards our vision, we are seeking a Global Lead for the Data, Analysis & PlanningTeam. This is a new team that seeks to foster a thriving data and learning culture, and to evolve and manage the frameworks, systems, and rituals that enable strong collaboration and data-driven reflection, learning, and planning.
• The team partners closely with our global program teams, global external teams, and regional teams in Africa, Middle East North Africa, Asia Pacific , Europe and the Americas to support continuous learning, improvement, and collaboration.

The Team Lead reports directly to Teach For All’s CEO & Co-founder.

Responsibilities

As the Director of Data & Strategic Planning, you will be responsible for setting the team’s vision and direction, building an inclusive, diverse, high-performing team, and working with team members and colleagues across the organization on the following and/or similar activities:

• Programmatic Planning: Evolve the programmatic planning process, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making, reflection, and continuous learning with ease and agility
• Strategic Measurement: Developing and refining impact frameworks to ensure what we’re collecting enables us understand our progress and impact on a global scale
• Data Systems Enhancement: Strengthen our data collection and management platforms, systems and processes
• Data Utilization: Visualize and analyze data to promote data usage and support teams in identifying holistic data trends
• Learning and Insights: Support data reflection and insights generation to drive organizational and program planning, contribute to the design and execution of research/studies, and communicate impact
• Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Partner with program teams to strengthen collaboration and streamline operations, including through fostering communication and coordination across program and regional teams, and maintaining a view of the overall program budget

As the ideal candidate, you will bring:

• 10 years of relevant work experience including data analysis, management, global engagement and team leadership experience
• Experience overseeing strategic data and analysis initiatives to help inform decisions and enhance organizational wide planning
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to convey complex data findings to diverse audiences
• Exceptional strategic thinking and reasoning skills
• Proven leadership experience in building and managing high-performing teams in startup or evolving environments will be particularly helpful
• Strong track record of fostering a collaborative team culture and enhancing team synergies
• Experience with ways of working that center diversity, equity, and inclusiveness; foster the leadership of all staff members; and encourage agility
• Ability to thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial, and constantly evolving environment
• Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with colleagues globally, including with a high volume of virtual engagement (i.e., conference calls, social media, virtual collaboration tools)
• Exemplifies Teach For All’s core values and a commitment to Teach For All’s mission:
• Reflects a sense of possibility in mindset and vision
• Believes in the value of being locally rooted and globally informed
• Drives toward constant learning and improvement
• Convinced of the necessity of diversity and inclusiveness in our work
• Believes in the interdependence between us and our partners in solving this global problem