Curriculum Specialist
Reporting to: Academy Curriculum Manager
Work Period: September 07, 2025 to December 07, 2025
Location: Bangladesh (Full-time, short-term, in-person, paid)
Application Deadline: Rolling
About Teach For Bangladesh
Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) believes that every child in Bangladesh – regardless of socio-economic circumstance – deserves the opportunity for an excellent education. Our mission is to launch a movement of capable, committed, and compassionate leaders who share an understanding of inequity and are working tirelessly inside and outside the nation’s classrooms to end it.
Our Fellowship program enlists highly talented graduates to spend two years teaching in low-income schools. During that time, we train and support Fellows as they expand the academic achievement, access, and aspirations of their students. The program also prepares Fellows to become lifelong leaders who will spearhead systemic change across a diverse array of sectors in Bangladesh.
Learn more about us at: www.teachforbangladesh.org
Watch a video about working at Teach For Bangladesh: http://goo.gl/ChjE6d
Learn more about the global network Teach For All at: www.teachforall.org
Position Summary
‘Winter Academy’ is a six-week intensive training program designed to equip our Fellows with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they will need before they begin teaching full-time in January. This year’s Academy, starting on October 18, will be for the incoming batch of 80-90 Teach For Bangladesh Fellows. The purpose of the Winter Academy is to initiate Fellows into the two-year leadership development program, invest in the mission, vision, and values of Teach For Bangladesh, and prepare them to work as highly effective leaders when they assume full-time teaching responsibilities from early 2025. During the training, the Fellows’ time is spread between both synchronous and asynchronous workshop-style training sessions, teaching practice in local primary and secondary schools (all morning for 3 weeks), and community visits. The Fellows will also be responsible for conducting lessons in a blended module.
Curriculum specialists are motivated by a desire to build knowledge and instructional skills in new teachers. An ideal candidate has a passion for the art of teaching and working with young leaders.
Major Responsibilities
Instructional Leader
- Serve as an instructional expert on TFB’s approach to teaching and be a point person for Fellows and other staff;
- Provide support on the application and theory of the training content
- Design and facilitate high-impact instructions to develop in-person, online, and distance teaching-learning skills, along with improving the knowledge, skills, and mindsets
- Plan, customise, and deliver 10-15 high-impact (both synchronous and asynchronous) training sessions each week to ensure that Fellows are becoming strong teachers
- Support in observing Fellow classrooms and conducting debriefs
- Collaborating with peers to make data-driven decisions on how to best meet Fellow needs (student achievement data, Fellow satisfaction data, qualitative classroom data)
- Creating objective-driven learning spaces that enable the learning of the Fellows
Culture Builder
- Influence, motivate, and inspire 80-90 new Fellows, leading them in developing the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to be transformational teachers in low-income classrooms
- Establish and maintain a strong culture of excellence grounded in TFB’s core values
Key Skills and Competencies
- Deep understanding of pedagogical theory and practice, along with having evidence of leading students in a low-income community to dramatic academic gains
- Advanced understanding of David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle.
- Experience in developing online and in-person training is preferred
- Desire to receive and act on feedback with a continuous learning mindset
- Strong knowledge of pedagogy, for age groups of 8-16 with Teach Like a Champion
- Ability to effectively operate independently and as part of a team in a high‐intensity, high‐uncertainty start‐up environment, with a results-oriented culture
- Strong organisation with proven time management skills and experience creating efficient systems to juggle multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to build and sustain strong relationships through engaging a diverse pool of individuals
- Ability to clearly articulate our vision, goals, and work, and address the barriers and motivations of different individuals effectively
- Experience in regulating the well-being of self and others during uncertainties
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable local or foreign university required
Language Requirements
- Exceptional fluency in written and spoken English is essential
- Fluency in spoken Bangla is also helpful
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years of teaching experience
- Preferably have prior experience with one of the Teach For All partner organisations, either as a participant or staff member, through training or coaching teachers
- Preferably has experience working with marginalised or underserved communities
Compensation and Benefits
Salary is competitive in a Bangladeshi context and depends on prior experience.
Information for non-Bangladeshi candidates
The 2025 Winter Academy will take place in person. Therefore, the non-Bangladeshi candidates are required to travel to Bangladesh or get any work permit for work purposes.
- Non-Bangladeshi hires would be eligible for a round-trip air ticket from and back to their home country. Teach For Bangladesh will assist in the process of procuring an appropriate visa. Please be advised that securing a visa to travel to Bangladesh can take up to a month, so we encourage non-Bangladeshi candidates to apply well in advance of the deadline.
- TFB will assist staff in finding appropriate housing, a basic housing facility in a shared dorm or hotel for the period of time in the contract that is before and after the Academy.
- You may need to share a room with one of your colleagues of the same gender.
- TFB will have no requisition for food till the Winter academy begins. The staff will arrange their food by themselves. During the Winter academy, various meal items as scheduled in the venue and for the Fellows are being served. The trainer will choose the meal according to the best available at the venue.
How to Apply
Please complete this Application Form thoroughly.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.
