Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Leadership Development and Team Management
- Walking alongside fellows during two years of their fellowship journey and providing suggestions or coaching by understanding each fellow’s strength and weakness in order to improve their potential while fellows take the ownership of their learning and experience.
- Creating efficient learning experience for TFT fellows to make sure that they can develop their mindset, skills and knowledge in order to achieve the vision of Teach For Thailand including classroom supervising and talking with each cohorts, school visiting, group discussion, developing skills workshop, joining study planning, co-teaching, leadership workshop, school’s community project, and other activities related to TFT.
- Following Teach For Thailand’s working culture by supporting fellows to improve themselves continuously and earnestly in order to build up cooperation networks and support.
- Coaching fellows to make them understand and adhere to the mission of TFT’s alumni that is working to make education equality become true.
Partner Engagement
- Building a good relationship with the school's administration, teachers and community to make them understand the program. In addition, he or she should have an ability to solve possible problems in case there are any conflicts between fellows, teachers and school administration in order to support long-term co-working.
- Building and nurturing relationships with potential donors in the region to create the pipeline in the long haul.
Administrative Support
- Following up, gathering, analyzing and commenting on the progress and achievement in school according to the goal in teaching and learning of fellows from student data, fellow engagement survey data, principal survey data and qualitative data from students work and other sources to improve the project implementation.
- Supporting and coordinating with fellows to make them work smoothly with each department in Teach For Thailand for doing projects.
Requirements:
- Over 2 years' working experience with proven ability to coach and develop team members toward achieving ambitious and measurable outcomes OR.
- Over 2 years' working experience with proven success in community engagement/development.
- Working in the education sector would be highly considered.
- Experience in project management/Ability to manage multiple projects within a timeline.
- Strong willingness and ability to proactively engage in cold calling and direct prospecting, including walking in to seek opportunities.
- Ability to learn new things quickly and highly adaptable.
- Ability to work effectively with critical and systematic thinking, to plan, organize and operate with urgency.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills - ability to establish and manage authentic working. relationships with people of all working styles with humility, empathy and respect to get things done.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Working flexibility (able to travel upcountry and work on weekends occasionally).
Skills/Knowledges/Mindsets:
- A deep commitment to education equity - a belief that all children can succeed regardless of their background.
- A belief in community power and social movement
- Visionary leadership skills, with the personal drive and energy to inspire and motivate colleagues and peers.
- Perseverance - continued effort to do or achieve the mission despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.
- A learning orientation with self-awareness and commitment to development for growth.
- Possess a “can-do attitude”.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and the Internet.
- Good command of English and Thai fluency is mandatory (written and spoken).
- Exemplify Teach For Thailand’s core values: Mission Comes First, Grow Together, Sense of Possibility, and Act Like Owners.
