Source: Teach For Armenia

 

About Us:

 

Teach For Armenia is building a movement of leaders who will reshape what it means to provide an excellent education for all children across the nation. We aim to cultivate students who can harness their voices and shape a changing world while being committed to their communities. This will require support at every level of leadership, from our teachers in the classroom to the highest-ranking officials. Teach For Armenia aims to accomplish this vision by recruiting promising leaders, both in Armenia and from across the diaspora, to teach for a 2-year commitment in schools where their knowledge and skills are needed. In the long-run, our organization is cultivating a network of changemakers, inclusive of our students, their communities, our Alumni, government officials, community partners, supporters, and affiliates from across Teach For All.

 

The Role:

 

Teach For Armenia prides itself on being a leadership development organization. In order to achieve system-wide change for our students, we believe that we must develop an ecosystem of leadership. Our mission is to find talented individuals and galvanize them into advocates for educational equity. The internship is a part of this effort. Teach For Armenia’s internship is a paid opportunity for high-performing university seniors to engage with our work. Each department will be hiring interns. As such, we are looking for interns studying a variety of subjects. Our internship pays 100,000 drams (gross) per month. The internship will start in February, and end in June. At the end of the program, interns are encouraged to join our core program. 

 

The Team:

 

Each department will be hiring interns. As a cohort, we expect to hire between 10-20 interns. The departments that will be hiring interns include:

• Private Partnerships (i.e. Fundraising)
• Public Partnerships (i.e. Government Relations)
• Marketing & Brand Strategy (including Communications, Translation, & Design)
• Finance & Operations
• Human Resources
• Recruitment*
• Learning & Innovation (including Programs Design, Káits, Community Impact, Student Leadership, Data, & Alumni-Ambassadorship)

 

*For interns hired by the Recruitment Department, you will serve as a “Campus Representative.” Our Campus Representatives are based at their respective universities and support us in our effort to identify top talent for our core program. 

 

About You:

 

Teach For Armenia may be the place for you if you believe it is important to foster a values-driven workplace that is centered on leadership. Our team must be composed of culture-builders who exemplify the type of leadership we are striving to cultivate in our classrooms and across the system. This means each staff member must strive to exemplify our Kochari, hold ourselves to the highest of standards while owning up to mistakes when we ourselves falter.

 

For this role specifically, we are also looking for a candidate who possesses the following key competencies:

• Commitment: More than anything else, we are looking for talented individuals who are passionate about Teach For Armenia’s mission to transform the nation through education. 
• Teamwork: Teach For Armenia has a very special team culture and strives to be the best place to work. We are looking for individuals who will help us to foster a spirit of collaboration.
• Learner: We are all lifelong learners. Every staff member at Teach For Armenia must be open to learning. 
• Problem-Solving: In order to solve such a large issue as educational inequity, we need leaders who can think out of the box and offer up solutions. 
• Drive: There is a lot of work to be done. Even our interns must be self-driven and able to overcome obstacles.

 

Aside from these core competencies, we are also looking for the following

qualifications:

• Our internship program is intended for university students in their final year of study, whether it is a Bachelor’s or Master’s program;
• We are looking for high-performers who can balance multiple priorities;
• Armenian is required; English is highly preferred; Russian is an asset (especially for interns who wish to serve as translators);

 

The Work:

 

The key responsibilities will vary by department. The following are some examples of the duties you may be expected to perform:

• Private Partnerships
  • Research and identify partnership opportunities
  • Help run fundraising and outreach campaigns
  • Participate in the creation of social media content
• Public Partnerships (i.e. Government Relations)
  • Support with editing and proofreading English and/or Russian language documents
  • Identification of new leads and partnership opportunities
  • Desk research for ongoing research projects
• Marketing & Brand Strategy
  • Support with the design of graphics and visuals
  • Promote content online through social media
  • Provide translation support for online content in Armenian, English, and/or Russian
• Finance & Operations
  • Assist with preparing and filing respective supporting document (contracts, financial reports on expenses)
  • Assists with operations and office management related logistics
  • Other tasks assigned by the CFO  and Finance and Operations Manager
  • Assists the departments in streamlining its day to day administrative tasks and seek innovative solutions to ensure efficiency
• Human Resources
  • Support in HR Administration related activities
  • Support in HR-related logistics
  • Support in the Hiring process, in terms of scheduling the interviews with candidates & sending the respective emails
• Recruitment
  • Find the brightest talent among university students and inspire them to join the TFA movement
  • Assist the Recruitment team with building brand awareness on campus, as well as developing relationships with university faculties
  • Organize TFA info-sessions, one to one conversations to assist potential candidates in their journey to join TFA
  • Other duties related to the recruitment activities in TFA 
• Learning & Innovation 
  • Assist in the community impact and budget-related reporting of the community impact projects
  • Research and inform about prevalent external project funding opportunities in Armenia and abroad
  • Assist in researching and implementing innovative practices and frameworks about student leadership 
  • Assist in translating and editing Learning materials (English-Armenian)
  • Assist in organizing and conducting trainings (on-line; off-line)
  • Help with making video materials (video recording, editing, Armenian  subtitles)

 

NOTE: Teach For Armenia is a growing nonprofit working within a dynamic system. Our team must be agile as we grow in scale. We are looking for leaders who are resilient and adaptive. That is to say that responsibilities may shift over time.

 

To Apply:

 

Please submit your résumé through the official job posting in Spark Hire here. In your résumé, please also indicate your GPA and describe your course of study. Please share which department would you prefer to support, although we will not be able to guarantee your placement there. We will ask you to complete a one-way interview through Spark Hire in order for us to get to know you better and determine which department best fits your skills and background.

 

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity:

 

Teach For Armenia is an organization that strives to elevate the voices of our students and their communities. As such we are an organization that is committed to equity and we strive to build an inclusive environment. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.