Global Lead, AI for Programmatic Impact

Position Summary To advance Teach For All's 25-year vision , we are seeking a Global Lead, AI for Programmatic Impact, whose primary focus is unlocking the potential of our network partners ' use of AI to accelerate their programmatic impact. At its heart, this role is about helping partners use AI to have a bigger impact on the children and communities they serve — and doing that by connecting partners with each other, providing direct advisory support, capturing and sharing insights across the network, and potentially managing a subgrant fund through which partners could apply for resources to accelerate their AI programs. This is a role for someone who enables, connects, inspires, and learns alongside others. It will require deep partnerships across the organisation and network, with programmatic specialists, regional teams, technology colleagues, and the partners themselves. It also requires helping to convene and align the various people across Teach For All's global organization working on AI, ensuring our collective efforts are mutually reinforcing and coherently communicated, and upholding the network standards for responsible AI use, ensuring partners have the resources and support to use AI safely and in alignment with our shared values. This role provides consulting and advisory support with no direct authority over Partners, who are independent organisations with their own governance structures, making relationship-building, flexibility, and the ability to bridge technical and programmatic content essential. Success in this role will be reflected in: The degree to which partners are using AI innovatively and safely to advance their programmatic impact The vibrancy and connectedness of AI learning communities across the network Evidence of strong ethical grounding and responsible AI governance across partner organizations About the Team The Collective Learning and Consulting (CLC) team is a diverse group of over 25 staff members with an array of expertise, ranging from teacher recruitment and professional development to governance to public/private sector partnerships. In collaboration with others, the CLC team drives aggregate impact across the network by: Distilling and sharing insights Designing and facilitating meaningful learning opportunities and communities in virtual, in-person, and blended spaces Providing tailored coaching and consulting to early-stage entrepreneurs and current network partners Contributing insights on education, leadership, and system change to the broader global ecosystem Key Responsibilities The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: 1) Enable Partners to Use AI for Greater Programmatic Impact The core of this role is helping network partners harness AI to deepen and accelerate their impact. This person will keep a close pulse on how partners are innovating, help them innovate more, and ensure they are doing it safely, which includes: 1:1 advisory and consulting support : Meet regularly with partners to understand their AI ambitions and challenges, provide tailored guidance, and help them develop and strengthen their AI strategies and practices Learning experiences and community spaces : In collaboration with others, create and facilitate virtual and in-person learning communities and convenings for CEOs, heads of technology, and other leaders around topics such as child safety, AI innovation, and AI policy Capturing and sharing insights : Proactively learn from partner innovations across the network and make key insights, case studies, and resources available via the network portal; connect partners pursuing similar questions so they can learn from each other Collaboration with programmatic specialists : Work alongside functional specialists (e.g. in teacher training, alumni, selection) to bring an AI lens to their communities and help catalyze conversations about how AI can strengthen specific programmatic functions Build and buy guidance : In collaboration with IT coll