Director of Alumni Leadership, Asia Pacific

Position Summary

To advance Teach For All’s 25-year vision , we are seeking a Director of Alumni Leadership to catalyze the collective impact of our alumni network across Asia Pacific. This role will lead our efforts to strengthen alumni leadership and build a more connected and influential alumni movement across Asia Pacific, transforming the systems that shape the lives and learning outcomes of children in underserved communities.

This role requires a high degree of autonomy and initiative to drive results, leveraging a collaborative approach to consult with network partners and build the resources necessary to strengthen the region’s alumni leadership pipeline.

The ideal candidate is a strategic movement-builder who balances a high-level vision for systems change with the practical ability to mobilize people. You are someone who sees the immense potential of our alumni and possesses the natural ability to connect leaders across borders, turning individual leaders into a unified regional movement. Driven by a deep commitment to educational equity, you are an expert at cultivating leadership in others, communicating complex information, designing group learning journeys, and weaving meaningful relationships. Most importantly, you are a clear-eyed advocate for children, focused on transforming the structures that limit their potential to ensure every student in the region can thrive.

In this role, you will be responsible for

supporting Teach For All network partner organizations in Asia Pacific with their local alumni strategies through high quality coaching and consulting; fostering peer learning; and developing resources and training to support their organisational work and impact with alumni.

driving Teach For All’s strategy to strengthen alumni leadership and connectedness in the Asia Pacific region through devising new programs which develop alumni leadership directly, foster their connectivity and peer learning, and enable their growth as leaders as they learn from and support one another towards greater impact.

This role is part of Teach For All’s Global Alumni Leadership Team, with counterparts in other regions to spread learning and innovation across regions. The role reports to the Head of Alumni Leadership but works in very close -daily- collaboration with colleagues in Teach For All’s Asia Pacific regional team and our global Collective Learning & Consulting team.

Outcomes

Success in this role means that

Each network partner organization in the region will have a clear and contextualised alumni strategy, rooted in their vision for system change, that informs their programmatic choices and their support for alumni

Alumni in the region are developing as impactful leaders within key high leverage career pathways in their contexts

Alumni in the region are connected and are learning from and supporting each other in pursuit of transformational progress for children

About the Team

Today there are over 114,000 Teach For All network alumni working across more than 60 countries. Together, they are one of the world’s largest networks of local leaders working collectively in pursuit of transformational progress for children. We have seen that local alumni leaders move faster when we continue to invest in their growth and are exposed to what is possible in other contexts.

Teach For All’s Alumni Leadership Team

Strengthens network learning about developing alumni leadership

Accelerates alumni leadership in key impact pathways

Fosters cross-border connectivity & learning between alumni

The Alumni Leadership Team is globally spread, with team members in Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, North America and the Americas.

Key Responsibilities

Network Partner Support

There are currently 20 organisations that Teach For All supports across the Asia Pacific region. Each organization is developing their alumni leaders at the local level. To support their efforts, you will

Collaborate with Teach For All’s Asia Pacific regional team and Functional Area specialists to diagnose and constantly re-evaluate the needs and strengths of partners to determine and deliver the most appropriate support strategies and capture and share innovations and learnings.

Establish strong, trust-based relationships with Heads of Program and Heads of Alumni in Asia Pacific, engaging regularly to understand their unique challenges, successes, and areas of growth.

Work in close partnership with specialists across and beyond Teach For All to remain at the forefront of the latest network knowledge and insights about developing collective leadership through the recruitment, selection, placement and training of leaders, contributing new insights as you come across them, and developing shared learning experiences.

Manage alumni data and share insights (based on your diagnosis of a partners’ needs and priorities) through various mediums including facilitating learning experiences, workshops, newsletters and online platforms, driving learning and engagement amongst Heads of Alumni and Heads of Program.

Manage a robust learning community between Heads of Alumni in Asia Pacific which facilitates peer learning, information exchange, peer support, collaboration between them to accelerate their local efforts.

Provide personalized coaching and consulting to Heads of Alumni and other Senior Leaders, leveraging your expertise to address specific challenges and enhance the effectiveness of their alumni impact strategies.

Influence Chief Program Officers and network partner CEOs, in close partnership with the regional team, to build momentum for alumni support outside of the Head of Alumni role, and collaborate with others to execute high quality cross-functional support and learning across many senior stakeholders to ensure alumni strategy and support is a priority for network partners in the region.

Develop Alumni Leaders

There are currently ~13,000 alumni leaders in the Asia Pacific region who have successfully