Director Of Productive Learning

This job must be based in Phoenix AZ, Washington DC, or a country with an established FH office.

Do you bring structure into complex and ambiguous situations while also quickly building trusted influencer relationships?

Are you hungry to dig in, do the work, guide others, and build capabilities all the way to actually realizing transformation?

Does learning, curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and ownership permeate throughout your DNA?

Bring your unique skills to the table and thrive.

Join a team where your ideas are heard and valued.

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FH Culture

All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success. For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.

Job Summary

Responsible for building organizational capabilities to design, develop and deliver holistic and sustainable solutions to realize the goal of productive learning, in support of the new program model. This role will support the achievement of organizational goals by establishing standards, scope, and strategy for technical specializations related to Productive Learning, as well as innovating, researching, and building products and services that can be eventually monetized to generate revenue streams. This role will build strong relationships with external networks and partners to position FH as a thought and practice leader for Productive Learning.

Principal Responsibilities

Vision and Strategic Leadership for Productive Learning

• Foster a discipline of reflection, collaborative learning, and program adaptation.
• Define and design innovative, monetizable, value-driven solutions, products, and services that enable FH to gain comparative and competitive advantage in the market.
• Keep abreast of cutting-edge knowledge and development in terms of strategies and standards related to productive learning.
• Conduct product research, prototyping, and learning loops related to productive learning products to rapidly ideate and refine products and services.
• Lead a team to provide operational management, leadership, strategy, and vision for productive learning in the areas of Early Childhood Development, and Formal and Informal Education.
• Engage with external stakeholders and provide thought leadership and influence in productive learning to influence the global community through partnerships, conferences, publications, and other key forums.
• Provide leadership to develop and deepen the use of innovation, research, and knowledge creation for Productive Learning.

Demand Driven Technical Services

• Partner with Country Offices to develop and implement appropriate productive learning programming.
• Develop program quality standards to improve the fidelity of implementation of programs related to productive learning to deepen and sustain missional impact.
• Provide demand-based, professional services to ensure operational excellence in productive learning in support of the people we serve.

Partnership and Collaboration

· Preposition and ensure that revenue targets are met for productive learning.

· Lead assessment, technical designing, and writing of concept notes and grants related to this area.

· Foster and enable strong collaboration between other leaders to execute shared vision, strategy, and thought leadership towards co-ownership in improving program quality as well as deepening and sustaining the missional impact.

· Build strong relationships with external networks and partners to position FH as a thought and practice leader for productive learning.

Create Evidence Based Knowledge Assets

• Publish well researched articles in reputable journals demonstrating the learning and effectiveness of productive learning programming.
• Develop research, innovation, and learning agenda.
• In collaboration with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) unit, develop, review, and implement successful M&E plans.

Provide Thought Leadership

• Participate and represent FH in relevant external conferences and forums related to this area.
• Connect and maintain relationships with key thought leaders in the relief and humanitarian development space on innovation and impact in global development.
• Promote FH’s influence in the measurement of progress and impact in relation to productive learning by representing FH externally in universities, decision makers, policy forums, and working groups.
• Engage with external stakeholders and provide thought leadership in productive learning to influence the global community.

Other duties as assigned.

Job Level Specifications

• Vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ and Christian commitment to serving the poor and in full agreement with FH’s Christian beliefs.
• Sound knowledge and working experience in leading programming related to education for increasing employability.
• Leadership and supervisory experience.
• Published articles in reputable journals.
• Able to travel 35% of the year in developing countries and fragile contexts.
• Proven practical experience demonstrating use of Systems Practice, Human Centered Design, and research methodology.
• Sound technical knowledge in Education, Early Childhood Development and Basic Education (formal and informal).

Experience

• 10+ years of experience working in International Development specifically in the area of Early Childhood Development, Basic and Adult Education.
• Prior experience in a complex, matrixed organization, with the ability to scale processes in a global, professional, service organization.
• Non-profit ministry experience is a plus.

Education/Certifications

• Master’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelor's degreein the area of Early Childhood Development, Basic and Adult Education required.

Supervisor Responsibilities

Directly supervises staff. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, resolving problems, etc.

Safeguarding Policy

FH strives to provide an environment free from sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the Heartbeat Values and safeguarding and associated policies. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.