Build Your Career.
Build Your Country.
Start your career with two years in a classroom that needs you: paid, trained, and coached to grow into a leader for a better Ethiopia.
A child’s future should never depend on where they’re born.
Today, a child in Addis and a child in a rural community often receive very different teaching. These gaps are built into the system, and they last. Closing them takes leaders who start where the need is greatest. Who teaches our children shapes who Ethiopia becomes.
Compared to their peers, students taught by Teach For Ethiopia Teacher Leaders show:
20% improvement in reading comprehension
15% higher gains in mathematics
50% reduction in absenteeism
A first job that grows you faster than any other
Real responsibility from day one. A paid, full-time teaching role in a partner public school, leading your own classroom.
Training and coaching that keep you growing. Intensive pre-service training, then leadership development, individual coaching and mentorship throughout both years.
Qualifications that last. A teaching-credential pathway and the opportunity to apply for a funded Master’s degree.
A network for life. Peers, mentors, and 150 alumni across Ethiopia, plus the Teach For All community in more than 60 countries.
Your path in three steps
Apply. Tell us who you are and why you want to lead.
Prepare. Complete our selection process and intensive pre-service training.
Teach and lead. Spend two years with your students and community, then choose where you lead next.
Where your two years can take you
Lead schools and education. Become a school leader, teacher educator, or teacher and strengthen teaching and school culture from the inside.
Shape policy and government. Bring classroom and community experience into public institutions, research, and system-level reform.
Build your own venture. Turn the adaptability and problem-solving the classroom demands into a startup that solves problems you’ve seen firsthand.
Whichever path you choose, you’ll join 150+ Teach For Ethiopia alumni and a global community in more than 60 countries.
What You Commit To
As a Teacher Leader, you commit to:
Teaching full-time for two school years in a public school where educational opportunity is most limited
Relocating to your placement community and becoming part of it
Holding yourself to the standard your students deserve, every day of both years