Hybrid Director of Applied Learning

at Raising The Village

• Job title: Director of Applied Learning
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $120,000 - $150,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Director of Applied Learning at Raising The Village focusing on scaling programs and ensuring quality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Lead a multi-country team to enhance program delivery and impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain global program standards, including what is fixed vs adaptable across contexts.
• Partner with Program and Country teams to ensure consistent implementation.
• Establish and track program quality metrics and feedback loops.
• Identify gaps between design and execution and drive corrective action.
• Bring together data (from Venn), field learnings (from implementation teams), and research to review and report on what's working and what needs to change.
• Design how pilots, tests, and new ideas actually flow back into our model.
• Translate for different audiences: Take a data scientist's insight and turn it into something a field coordinator can actually use.
• Develop the materials (guides, training, onboarding) that let new teams get effective faster.
• Create the systems where institutional knowledge lives, not in people's heads, but accessible and organized.
• As we hire in new countries, you'll design how teams ramp up and get competent quickly.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in international development, social impact, or a similar field.
• Strong experience in program operations and delivery.
• Proven track record building systems that enable scaling without loss of quality.
• Experience working across multiple countries or complex operations.
• Strong interpersonal communication and teaching skills.
• Ability to explain complex program logic to diverse audiences.
• Highly independent, resourceful, and resilient in the face of ambiguity.
• Strong change management skills with demonstrated experience of successful organizational and cross-cultural leadership.
• Alignment with RTV values of being performance-driven, adaptive, curious, bold and inclusive.

Benefits

• Group RRSP matching program, up to 5%.
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, and travel).
• 20 weeks of vacation.
• Flexible hybrid work environment with a model of 3 days in office and two days remote.