Community Mobilisation Director

Role: Community Mobilisation Director

Start Date: Immediate

Employment Type: Full time, 3-Year Contract

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Reporting Line: CEO of Teach For Malaysia

Role Purpose

Drives the collective leadership and mobilisation through building a movement that empowers students, communities, and key leaders in the education ecosystem to take action toward educational equity in alignment with Teach For Malaysia’s mission.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Formulate and develop the direction and overall strategy of the Community Mobilisation function to mobilise a diverse and inclusive movement across the TFM strategic pillars and education ecosystem.
2. Develop and lead platforms, programmes and/or structures that enable and empower students, communities, volunteers and broader leaders in the ecosystem to align to TFM’s mission. 
3. Develop partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, organisations and/or communities aligned to TFM’s vision in order to expand the movement of leaders.
4. Drive the incubation and launching process of new innovations within the organisation and the broader network that contributes to the transformation of the education ecosystem.
5. Drive the initiatives and be the catalyst that enable members of the network to assume new positions of leadership in high impact pathways.
6. Collaborate with other members of the SLT to drive organisation-wide strategic initiative, foster a values-based culture that is sustainable and foster the development of individuals/teams.

Role Requirements

Competencies required for the role

As people join TFM, we expect individuals to be aligned with our core values, have passion and drive to the TFM mission.

Technical/ Functional competencies:

• Ability to develop and grow long term partnerships with both public and private sector organisations to grow TFM’s impact
• Ability to map the system to identify social innovation needs, and incubate leadership to launch new innovations.
• Strong programme development and management skills, especially in visualising, designing, planning and hosting community-based events and initiatives.
• Stay abreast with relevant policies, regulations, and trends affecting the community.
• Excellent proficiency in MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel
• Willing and able to readily adopt and utilise any TFM database or technological platform / application (i.e. Google Suites, Confluence, Salesforce, Zoom, project management softwares etc.)

Leadership competencies: 

• Proactive self-starter with the ability to manage multiple streams of work, and independently prioritise tasks
• Strong desire to learn new things and grow professionally
• Ability to be adaptable in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of employees and stakeholders
• Ability to think systemically and strategically on the direction, programmes and partnerships TFM is engaging in to grow a movement of leaders that are focused on fighting education inequity. 
• Ability to mobilise and convene diverse groups of people across all layers of the education ecosystem, and facilitate safe and effective dialogue that enables communities to make progress together.
• Strong belief and advocate in the importance of collective leadership, and able to centre the voice of students and communities in the education transformation agenda.
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset, with a desire and ability to think creatively to expand the community of leaders who champion education and expand educational impact.
• Strategic planning and execution by aligning the team on a vision of success, planning strategically and monitoring progress systematically
• Ability to strategically embed a sustainable team culture that values both development and performance against ambitious goals

Experiences & qualification

• At least 8 years of working experience, including relevant experience in partnership development, programme development and/or project management in the education sector
• Experience in leadership roles, managing teams across different portfolios and programme management 
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree qualification
• Experience leading and motivating large cross-functional teams, building culture and being responsible for team growth and development.
• Strong written and verbal skills and excellent proficiency in English and basic proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia