Chief Learning Officer for AI and Ed Tech

1. Advance the Global Institute’s Global AI Learning Agenda (50%) • Craft and Pursue a Cross-Cutting Learning Agenda About AI and the Future of Education, working with the Global Institute’s other CLOs driving our learning agendas around how to shift the purpose and outcomes of education; learning from lighthouse classrooms, learning environments, and systems; developing the people and collective leadership to enable progress; and measuring holistic outcomes. Foster inquiry, surface insights, and generate global frameworks on areas including the following: • The Purpose and Future of Education in an AI-Infused World: How should AI influence the purpose and intended outcomes of education that develops students holistically so they can shape a better future? • Transformational Teaching and Learning: How can AI be used responsibly, equitably, and effectively to support holistic learning for all students, and where might it be detrimental? • Educators as Co-Architects: How can educators, especially those working in under-resourced and marginalized contexts, be co-architects in the development of AI tools to transform what those tools look like, and what do they need from AI developers and the wider field? • Developing Transformational Educators: How can AI support the development of teachers and leaders who grow all students holistically so that they can shape a better future? • Measuring Development: How can AI help us better understand and measure holistic student and educator development? 2. Drive Global Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Cultivation (30%) • Cultivate Partnerships with Foundational Model Owners: In close collaboration with our Global Development team, lead and manage multi-layered strategic relationships with world-leading AI organizations, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, to ensure Teach For All is able to help shape the development of these foundational models’ role in education. • Maximize Real-World Product Feedback Loops: Partner with tech industries to leverage our network’s scale as a global testing ground, providing developer ecosystems with real-world, mission-aligned validation and product feedback from under-resourced educational contexts. • Secure Infrastructure and Resources: Broker institutional partnerships that unlock free or discounted software licenses, API access, hardware, and specialized engineering support to dismantle financial and technical barriers to innovation across our 60+ network partners. • Thought Lea

• Seasoned Strategic Leadership: 12–15+ years of professional experience, with at least 7+ years in strategic roles leading technological transformations, educational technology initiatives, or other roles with heavy involvement with the technology sector. • AI Domain Fluency: Robust understanding of contemporary AI architectures, large language models, enterprise API integrations, RAG-based systems, and custom data infrastructure (such as middleware and unified data layers). • Excellent Relationship Management: Proven track record of cultivating and navigating multi-million dollar funding relationships or strategic partnerships with top-tier technology and/or venture capital firms. • Mission Alignment: Deep commitment to Teach For All's vision and mission, contextual knowledge of the educational and structural realities facing underserved, low-resource communities, and a passionate belief in the power of localized, collective leadership to solve systemic educational inequities. • Responsible AI Guardship: Commitment to grounding technological advancement in core human values: equity, child safety, human judgment, and culturally responsive, ethical practice. • Multi-Stakeholder Orchestration: Demonstrated ability to align cross-functional teams without relying purely on rigid hierarchical authority. • Exceptional Communication & Influence: Strong storytelling, public speaking, and written communication skills, with an ability to articulate highly technical AI concepts clearly and compellingly to diverse audiences. • Inclusive Leadership: Comfort leading within highly diverse, globally distributed, and 100% remote team environments, exhibiting strong cross-cultural awareness.

Position Summary We are seeking a Chief Learning Officer for AI and Ed Tech to advance our global AI learning agenda, cultivate strategic partnerships in the AI and technology sectors, and coordinate efforts across the organization to leverage AI in our work. As a locally rooted and globally connected network operating across 60+ countries, Teach For All is uniquely positioned to catalyze AI innovation towards educational transformation, and to share insights with the technology and education sectors. As Chief Learning Officer (CLO) for AI and Ed Tech, this role will work with other Chief Learning Officers at Teach For All’s Global Institute for Shaping a Better Future to lead a learning agenda exploring how to maximize AI’s impact on education. The CLO will also lead a highly collaborative, cross-functional "AI Circle" that brings together all staff at Teach For All working on AI adoption from different teams across the global organization—including core software/data engineers and learning specialists—to foster shared learning and collaboration across all aspects of our AI work. This role reports directly to Teach For All’s CEO, Wendy Kopp. Key Responsibilities 1. Advance the Global Institute’s Global AI Learning Agenda (50%) • Craft and Pursue a Cross-Cutting Learning Agenda About AI and the Future of Education, working with the Global Institute’s other CLOs driving our learning agendas around how to shift the purpose and outcomes of education; learning from lighthouse classrooms, learning environments, and systems; developing the people and collective leadership to enable progress; and measuring holistic outcomes. Foster inquiry, surface insights, and generate global frameworks on areas including the following: • The Purpose and Future of Education in an AI-Infused World: How should AI influence the purpose and intended outcomes of education that develops students holistically so they can shape a better future? • Transformational Teaching and Learning: How can AI be used responsibly, equitably, and effectively to support holistic learning for all students, and where might it be detrimental? • Educators as Co-Architects: How can educators, especially those working in under-resourced and marginalized contexts, be co-architects in the development of AI tools to transform what those tools look like, and what do they need from AI developers and the wider field? • Developing Transformational Educators: How can AI support the development of teachers and leaders who grow all students holistically so that they can shape a better future? • Measuring Development: How can AI help us better understand and measure holistic student and educator development? 2. Drive Global Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Cultivation (30%) • Cultivate Partnerships with Foundational Model Owners: In close collaboration with our Global Development team, lead and manage multi-layered strategic relationships with world-leading AI organizations, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, to ensure Teach For All is able to help shape the development of these foundational models’ role in education. • Maximize Real-World Product Feedback Loops: Partner with tech industries to leverage our network’s scale as a global testing ground, providing developer ecosystems with real-world, mission-aligned validation and product feedback from under-resourced educational contexts. • Secure Infrastructure and Resources: Broker institutional partnerships that unlock free or discounted software licenses, API access, hardware, and specialized engineering support to dismantle financial and technical barriers to innovation across our 60+ network partners. • Thought Leadership Globally: Elevate Teach For All’s perspectives at international forums, global roundtables, and policy conventions, sharing evidence-based frameworks to position network voices and insights at the center of global educational AI policymaking. 3. Help Leverage AI to Advance Teach For All’s Mission (20%) • Lead the Cross-Functional AI Circle: Convene the staff working on AI across Teach For All—those supporting network partners and global staff members with their own adoption, those building tools for Teach For All, those involved in brokering partnership with the AI companies—to foster cohesion in our work. • Contribute to the Success of Teach For All’s Global AI Strategy in areas such as: • Scaling Teacher and Alumni Innovation: Support the scaling and evolution of the AI Literacy & Creator Collective—an 1,800-member community of teachers, alumni, and staff across the Teach For All network who are collaborating and innovating in leveraging AI in education settings around the world. Foster more engagement across alumni AI innovators and partner program staff. • Growing Network Partner Innovation and Impact:In partnership with the Global Lead, AI for Programmatic Impact and the Head of AI Solutions & Engineering, support partners’ efforts to test AI-enabled innovations that strengthen recruitment of fellowship participants, improve selection processes while centering inclusion and equity, and strengthen teacher training and leadership development. • Revolutionizing Cross-border Learning: Together with the Head of Technology and the Head of Platforms Strategy, consult on building an AI-enabled learning network that breaks down barriers to knowledge and connection, so every network partner can access the right insights, in their language, at the moment they need it—with community ownership and human judgement at the center. • Champion Ethical and Safeguarding Guardrails: Support the roll-out and continuous iteration of the board-approved AI-use Policy and Guidelines, supporting critical cross-functional conversations around child safeguarding, data privacy, and ethical compliance across classrooms. Qualifications • Seasoned Strategic Leadership: 12–15+ years of professional experience, with at least 7+ years in strategic roles leading technological t