Job Title: Deputy Managing Director
Position: 01 Vacancy
Reporting to: Managing Director
Duration: 2 Years (Renewable)
Contract Type: Full Time
Duty Station: Kampala
About Teach For Uganda
Teach For Uganda is a leadership development organization working to ensure that every child
in Uganda, regardless of their background, has access to an equitable, quality education. We
recruit, train, and support promising young leaders through a two-year Fellowship, placing them
in underserved schools where they improve foundational learning and STEM outcomes,
strengthen communities, and develop the leadership needed to drive lasting change.
Post-fellowship, our alumni form a growing movement of leaders working across education and
other sectors to address the systemic barriers that hold children back. Over the past decade, we
have reached 87000+ learners across 190 schools in 10 districts and developed 405 alumni
leaders.
Position Overview
As we deepen our impact, strengthen our systems, and position the organization for scale,
Teach For Uganda is seeking an exceptional Deputy Managing Director (DMD) to join our
executive team. The Deputy Managing Director will work closely with the Managing Director
and the Board to strengthen organizational performance, accelerate impact, and prepare the
organization for its next phase of growth.
The Deputy Managing Director will ensure that the organization’s internal machinery operates
effectively and consistently. He/she will oversee the strategic and day-to-day management of
Programs, Talent & HR, Communications, Finance, Operations, and Monitoring, Evaluation &
Learning. The DMD will ensure that Teach For Uganda delivers high-quality programming,
achieves strong learning outcomes, strengthens foundational learning and STEM, maintains
rigorous operational systems, and uses data to drive continuous improvement.
The role requires an exceptional leader who can connect strategy to execution; someone who
can see the big picture, translate organizational priorities into action, and build the people,
systems and partnerships needed to deliver results. The successful candidate will combine
strategic judgement, operational discipline and a strong, people-centred leadership style

Performance Objectives
Organizational Strategy & Leadership
• Work closely with the Managing Director and Board to develop and execute Teach For
Uganda’s organizational strategy and translate it into annual priorities, departmental
plans, budgets and measurable targets.
• Establish a clear rhythm of planning, performance review and accountability across
Teach For Uganda to ensure that programs, people, finances and partnerships are
aligned around measurable organizational outcomes.
• Lead the Senior Leadership Team’s coordination and ensure effective cross-functional
planning, collaboration and problem-solving across Teach For Uganda.
• Track progress against organizational priorities and intervene when delivery is off track.
• Identify and address organizational bottlenecks, strengthening decision-making,
delegation and accountability across the organization. Ensure teams have the clarity,
resources, systems and support required to deliver effectively against organizational
priorities.
• Support Teach For Uganda to evolve from a program-focused organization into a
stronger, scalable and increasingly influential education leadership organization.
• Build organizational systems that enable sustainable growth without compromising
program quality or organizational culture.
• Serve as Acting Managing Director when required.
Program Quality, Impact & Innovation
• Provide strategic oversight of Teach For Uganda’s Fellowship and Alumni programs,
ensuring that they remain strongly aligned with the organization’s strategy and theory of
change.
• Work with the Head of Program and managers to establish clear objectives, performance
indicators and accountability mechanisms to ensure foundational learning, STEM, and
Alumni leadership programs are delivering against agreed outcomes and quality
standards.
• Support continuous improvement across the Fellowship, alumni engagement, STEM,
foundational learning, and other strategic initiatives by ensuring that program learning

and evidence are systematically captured and used to improve program design and
quality and to inform organizational strategy and decision-making.
• Champion a culture of evidence, learning, innovation and measurable impact by regularly
monitoring program performance, implementation quality and fellow and learner
outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to scale effective interventions while maintaining quality and
ensure that program teams have clear objectives, adequate resources and appropriate
systems for effective delivery.
People & Organizational Culture
• Lead the implementation of Teach For Uganda’s people strategy to ensure Teach For
Uganda attracts, develops, motivates and retains high-performing talent to deliver its
strategy.
• Establish and maintain a high-performance culture where every staff member has clear
annual objectives and performance expectations. Identify high-potential staff and
develop succession plans for critical roles.
• Oversee workforce planning and organizational structure by ensuring that roles,
responsibilities, and reporting lines are clear.
• Support the coaching and development of senior managers and team leaders, creating a
strong internal succession pipeline.
• Work with the Managing Director and senior leadership team to strengthen
recruitment, performance management, professional development and staff retention.
• Protect and strengthen Teach For Uganda’s organizational culture and values by
ensuring they are reflected in how people lead, work and make decisions.
• Strengthen performance management and accountability processes across all levels,
ensuring that staff understand how their individual responsibilities contribute to
organizational strategy and impact
• Build a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative leadership team.
• Model Teach For Uganda’s values of putting children first, teamwork, continuous
learning and a sense of possibility.
• Create a conducive work environment that fosters psychological safety, ownership,
teamwork and accountability.
Resource Mobilization, Financial & Operational Excellence
• Work closely with the Managing Director and finance/partnership team to strengthen
Teach For Uganda’s financial sustainability.
• Support the development and execution of annual organizational budgets and financial
plans, ensuring resources are strategically allocated towards Teach For Uganda’s
highest-impact priorities

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