Jobs at Teach for Kenya

Position Summary
The primary role of the Alumni Development Officer is to help Teach For Kenya alumni achieve their individual goals and further our collective goal of educational equity for every Kenyan child. They will seek to cultivate a movement of Fellows who are dedicated to advancing the cause of educational equity in the long run. The Alumni Development Officer will focus on leadership and professional development, helping Fellows and alumni to embark on high-impact paths and supporting their continuous commitment to expanding educational opportunities for all children in Kenya.
Teach For Kenya seeks a visionary and highly strategic individual who will set the vision for alumni leadership, developing strategic partnerships that maximize alumni impact across diverse sectors. To succeed in this role, he/she must have excellent networking skills, a strategic mindset in cultivating partnerships and placement opportunities as a value proposition to the Alumni, strong people management skills, a skilled negotiator, entrepreneurship skills, and business development background relevant in progressing the social innovations in relevant platforms.

Quality Education for All Kenyan Children

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Setting alumni vision and strategy

• Develop the vision, goals, and strategy for long-term alumni impact in expanding educational opportunity, rooted in a deep understanding of the root causes of educational inequity in Kenya.
• Partner with Teach For Kenya’s leadership to develop and implement regional alumni impact visions and strategies grounded in the educational contexts of the different regions.
• Advance and refine vision and strategy through ongoing research and expert consultation.

Providing leadership and professional development to Fellows and alumni

• Develop strategy and plan for career and professional development for Fellows and alumni that accelerate their leadership and deepen their understanding of educational inequity and long-term solutions; oversee the delivery of various workshops, training, and other opportunities in collaboration with other relevant departments.
• Identify post-fellowship career options and connect alumni to strategic opportunities that enable their long-term impact, including cultivating alumni for full-time staff positions at Teach For Kenya.
• Oversee execution of high-impact Fellow and alumni events, including but not limited to networking events with organizational partners, alumni induction ceremonies, annual alumni conferences, etc.

Building external partnerships

• Identify, cultivate, and inspire external supporters across diverse sectors to contribute to alumni impact efforts.
• Build and maintain partnerships that benefit Fellow and alumni career and professional development, including but not limited to graduate schools, education organizations, governmental entities, non-profit organizations, businesses, etc
• Drive placement outcomes for Alumni
• Meet established goals and objectives as provided by leadership.
• Develop long-term working relationships with employers
• Maintain frequent contact with employers to obtain information on job opportunities, develop and enhance working relationships, and facilitate alumni placement.
• Coordinate placement events, invite employers to speak, and arrange on-site interviews.
• Work with businesses to identify regional employment trends and communicate these trends to the organization and Alumni.
• Recommend and facilitate new professional development based on employer needs.
• Complete employer satisfaction surveys to ensure alumni meet or exceed current job market and employer needs.
• Participate in the delivery and co-facilitation of Professional Development courses.
• Building a strong alumni community in Kenya.
• Build an active community of alumni inspired by and dedicated to Teach For Kenya’s mission by planning, implementing, and maintaining programs that maximize
• alumni engagement and foster strong relationships between alumni and Teach For Kenya

Managing team execution and collaboration

• Manage and grow an effective and results-driven Alumni Impact team through staff coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Build and utilize data systems to track alumni progress toward career goals, monitor levels of engagement with Teach For Kenya, and make data-driven decisions regarding strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with other departments and regional teams to ensure an aligned approach to Fellow and alumni development and engagement before, during, and beyond their fellowship.
• Foster a team and organizational culture focused on leadership and long-term impact

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree preferred
• Record of success in cultivating and building partnerships in Kenya
• Experience in career development and/or nonprofit sector preferred
• Minimum five years of professional experience with three years of management experience

Qualifications – Experience, Skills, and Beliefs

• Strong knowledge of job market trends.
• Strong relationship-builder—alumni work greatly depends on building 1:1 relationships to strengthen the community and network. The person can’t just be a strategist.
• Big-picture and strategic thinker—the ADO can see their role as one of setting vision and direction, keeping abreast of ideas in system change, collective action, etc.
• Credibility or strong influencer.
• Knowledge and understanding of job referral and placement procedures.
• Knowledge of career counseling principles and practices.
• Able to demonstrate PowerPoint presentation development and stand-up
• presentation skills.
• Ability to market the Teach For Kenya alumni and capabilities to businesses and industries.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills required, including writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage, coach, and develop staff.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with various people from diverse communities.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of records and information.
• Ability to set goals and strategy and use data to guide actions.
• Ability to build external relationships to support event development and develop partnerships.
• Deep knowledge of and engagement in the critical issues of education reform.
• Strong project management skills and experience.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Deep commitment to Teach For Kenya's mission and core values.
• Self-starter with initiative, confidence, drive, and flexibility to deal with unexpected situations or last-minute changes in a dynamic team.
• Great at connecting and building deep relationships, even with people quite different from you.
• Reflective and proactively working to grow and improve.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• Very proactive in making connections and visiting organizations involved in systems change work to learn from them.
• Values the importance of local context – isn’t just thinking about national system change, but also local change.

Key Performance Indicators

• Alumni Impact in the region
• 100% of placement opportunities/ Success rate of Alumni as change makers Long-term secured MOU
• 100% self-sustenance of the program/high-impact paths established consistently
• 100% availability/access to Alumni documentation/portfolios

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Position Summary

The Head of RSM is responsible for providing expert strategic and operational support and guidance to the hiring of highly qualified and motivated fellows within TFK. He/she will actively contribute to the development and delivery of the department priorities through coaching and advising on good hiring practices; guiding on relevant partnerships, seasonal calendar planning and execution of hiring in line with diversity focus themes. As a people manager to succeed in this role you must be a savvy leader, passionate about people, excellent PR for positioning purposes, excellent communicator and networking skills and sharp resourcing skills.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Design a Recruitment and Selection Strategy (30%)

• Develop and execute a great recruitment and selection plan that is focused on targeting the most promising leaders of our country to join the fellowship.
• Set ambitious goals for overall recruitment and matriculation cycle that are aligned with
• Teach For Kenya’s mission and vision, in coordination with the Head of Programs & CEO.
• Design an action plan on how to achieve the goals.
• Identify and attract passionate talented university graduates and young professionals to join and commit to a two-year teaching leadership fellowship.
• Meet promising high potential candidates one-on-one to get them invested into TFK and to better understand how their career aspirations might fit into our work.
• Go out to universities and other youth events to inform and inspire talented young graduates and professionals and get them to apply for the fellowship.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to ensure all selected applicants join and complete fellowship. “Creating a movement of leaders to transform the future of education in Kenya

Develop a compelling Marketing and Branding strategy (20%)

• Conduct a targeted market research each year to understand motivations of prospective applicants.
• Develop and execute marketing and communication campaigns centered on key themes/messaging that appeal to university graduates and professionals.
• Create awareness of the fellowship program through marketing channels such as print, social media, radio and television.
• Contribute to building a strong TFK brand.
• Build and maintain relationships with student leaders, administrators, faculty members, career service representatives, advisors, and other key gatekeepers to help execute an effective recruitment campaign.

Build partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders (30%)

• Research top targeted universities to understand their structure and operation.
• Build relationships with university chancellors, heads of key departments, Deans, Professors, career service heads and student bodies to get them invested in the recruitment campaign.
• Build partnerships with corporate companies and nonprofits to create awareness of the
• Teach For Kenya fellowship and eventually for fundraising purposes.
• Write high-impact external communications (acceptance letter, etc.).
• Conduct information sessions and presentations on campus, in meetings and events; communicate effectively and articulate Teach For Kenya’s vision, mission and the fellowship benefits and value addition.
• Represent Teach For Kenya at conferences, professional associations, recruiting events,
• Universities, etc. with the focus of expanding the talent pipeline.
• Formalize partnerships with various institutions through MOUs

Candidate experience (20%)

• Design a robust assessment centre for screening purposes (including selection competencies and application design).
• Create structures and processes that enable efficient and effective execution and collaboration towards goals as per plan.
• Create a system that tracks prospective applicants from when they express interest to when an offer is made. Collect, analyze and consistently use recruitment data to inform strategic decisions.
• Spearhead the application design and selection processes and competences.
• Recruit and oversee volunteer campus ambassadors in top universities across Kenya.
• Cultivate fit for role profiles in line with diversity goals, retention competencies and TFK key themes for alignment purposes
• Source and create professional development opportunities for them.
• Capturing and investigating in-depth data and evidence to analyze trends, monitor progress to goals, and adapt and iterate on strategies
• Recommend relevant automation tools
• Set and achieve ambitious matriculation goals for accepted Fellows.
• Manage applicant communications to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, HR or a related field with at least 5 years of relevant work experience (5 of which should be at the supervisory level).
• Demonstrated knowledge in hiring
• 3 years of working experience in a busy environment with a proven track record in NGO hiring. At least two years in a managerial position

Competencies, skills and Attributes.

• Technical skills in recruitment.
• Ability to conduct extensive campus pitch/drive.
• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under short deadlines with competing priorities
• Ability to collaborate successfully in a remote working environment
• Strong work ethic and sense of possibility.
• Desire and ability to effectively operate independently and as part of a team in a high-intensity, high-uncertainty start-up environment, with a results-oriented culture.
• Strong organization with proven time management skills and experience creating efficient systems to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Past success managing teams to achieve ambitious results.
• Ability to develop and execute a complex Recruitment, Selection and Matriculation strategy efficiently.
• Ability to build and sustain strong relationships with a diverse pool of individuals. •
• Ability to compellingly present to small and large groups. •
• Ability to identify clearly the attributes of high-potential candidates for the TFK Fellowship,
• which will enable them to be effective leaders in the classroom and beyond.
• Ability to clearly articulate in writing our vision, goals and work, and address effectively the
• barriers and motivations of different individuals.
• Experience collecting, analyzing and using data to inform strategic and tactical decisions.

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of competitive fellows recruited in line the mapped themes
• Quality of fellow profiles
• 100% documentation/reports on fellow profiles for reporting purposes
• Compliance i.e. availability of candidate information inline with the policy
• Error-free, complete, accurate, and timely proposals

Leadership Competencies

• Performance Management: Manage employee performance, e.g., through Weekly/monthly continuous performance discussions and feedback provision. Translate strategy into executable plans while motivating your team with clear direction by setting clear goals and
• KPIs each quarter.
• Coach, mentor, and facilitate the development of direct reports.
• Behavioral Role Model: Emulate TFK’s core values through your behavior and rewarding staff and demonstrate this consistently.
• Team Engagement: Engage their employees and manage diversity within the workplace, i.e., through meetings, decision-making, Managing the team budget, allocating resources efficiently and effectively, and defining the annual team calendar and action plan. Build a strong collaborative team culture that values relationships and results.

Our Offer: We Provide

• A competitive salary
• The challenge of taking on management responsibility for a growing team
• The opportunity to shape the development of Teach For Kenya
• A full-time job-based in Nairobi in a dynamic team with flat hierarchies
• International cooperation and professional development through active exchange with our partner organizations in over 60 countries in the Teach For All network
• A chance to make history!