The time to lead is now.

Wedu is building a world where half of all leaders are women. We enable women leaders in South and Southeast Asia to access leadership capabilities, a lifelong community, and plentiful capital. Since 2012, we have strengthened and sustained the unique leadership journeys of over 5,000 women from 29 countries across Asia by facilitating long-term mentorship, delivering leadership development training, convening support communities, and financing continuing education goals through Income Sharing Agreements. These women are inspiring individuals committed to changing the status quo. We believe this community of leaders — supported by gender equity allies from 94 countries around the world — has the power to achieve large-scale change.

This is an exciting time to join Wedu! After refreshing our strategy, we’re looking for highly motivated people who are innovative and thoughtful in their approach to getting things done, and have a demonstrated passion for gender equity, to join our remote-first team.

Programmes at Wedu

At Wedu, we believe that women leaders thrive when they are supported through Capability, Capital, and Community, three interconnected pillars that guide everything we do. Over the past 13 years, we’ve built accessible, customisable, and flexible solutions to empower women leaders across South and Southeast Asia to pursue their dreams and challenge societal norms. Our Capability offerings such as the Introduction to Leadership course and the Women’s Leadership Academy (WLA), equip women with the tools and confidence to lead authentically, access decisional and dream capital, and define leadership on their own terms. Our Capital pillar addresses critical financial gaps through innovative tools like Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs), which enable women to access education and career development on their own terms. Our Community pillar comes alive through the Global Mentorship Programme (GMP) and a lifelong ecosystem of allies and mentors that fosters social capital, personal growth, and professional advancement. Together, these programmes support women in navigating structural barriers and create a powerful ripple effect of change across the region.

Your Role

In this role, you will be a key driver of Wedu’s Capability and Community Pillars, shaping and delivering leadership development experiences that equip women with the skills, confidence, and networks to lead transformative change. By advancing our strategic priorities of climate resilience, care work, and economic empowerment, you’ll ensure that our programmes and community engagement initiatives are inclusive, evidence-informed, and rooted in the lived realities of women across Asia. Your work will enable a growing cohort of women leaders to take action in their communities, supported by robust mentorship, peer networks, and flexible learning experiences, tailored to their lived realities.

In the short term, you’ll focus on strengthening and integrating climate-resilient, care-responsive, and entrepreneur-focused content across Wedu’s leadership programmes, while activating community platforms for mentorship and peer exchange. You’ll also play a lead role in launching and embedding pilot modules such as those on climate leadership and unpaid care work into our core offerings. In the long term, your work will help Wedu reach at least 1,000 women with tailored leadership pathways, strengthen local ecosystems in six countries, and shift narratives around gendered leadership—positioning Wedu as a regional leader in feminist, community-powered capacity-building.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the strategic direction and growth of Wedu’s leadership programmes—including the Global Mentorship Programme (GMP), Women’s Leadership Academies (WLAs), and Introduction to Leadership (ITL) ensuring alignment with Wedu’s mission and long-term vision.

• Manage donor and partner engagement for existing programme funders; support the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) in cultivating new partnerships to expand reach across Wedu’s priority geographies and thematic areas (e.g., climate resilience, care work, and economic empowerment)

• Contribute to the organisation’s Business Innovation Plan, with a particular focus on innovating and evolving leadership development offerings.

Programme Innovation and Design

• Oversee the revamp of the ITL and GMP curricula, incorporating innovations that enhance accessibility, contextual relevance, and scalability.

• Collaborate with climate experts or partners to co-develop a climate-resilient leadership module, bringing a gender and leadership development lens across GMP, ITL and WLA programmes.

• Conduct a minimum of three small-scale programme experiments per year, capturing and synthesising learnings from both successes and failures to inform future programme design and scaling.

Programme Operations and Implementation

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of leadership programmes, ensuring a high-quality experience and outcomes for all participants.

• Manage budgets, donor reporting, and compliance for programme-related grants, proactively addressing risks or operational challenges.

• Oversee the full lifecycle of the Global Mentorship Programme: mentor-mentee matching, orientation, training, and ongoing engagement while engaging the community through mentor co-creation labs.

• Lead content and curriculum development, experience design, and event management for WLAs, including speaker selection and preparation.

• Ensure strong communication and engagement with all programme participants across touchpoints.

• Supervise and mentor a programme intern, supporting their professional growth and ensuring effective task delivery.

• Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) efforts to strengthen the evidence base and impact measurement of Wedu’s leadership development work.

Cross-functional Contribution

• As a member of Wedu’s programme team, contribute to shaping organisational strategies and priorities during a critical phase of intentional growth and evolution.

• Collaborate across teams to ensure leadership programming is integrated with other Wedu offerings (e.g., ISAs and community initiatives) to maximise collective impact.

• Coordinate across internal teams—including Systems (tech tools, Monitoring Evaluation, Research Learning, and data) and MarComms—to align on programme design, data use, and communications for events and leadership experiences.

Programmatic Focused Community Engagement 

• Co-lead at least one quarterly community engagement event with a programmatic focus—for example, piloting a climate-focused mentorship module or testing interest in a themed ITL session (e.g., climate, care, or economic empowerment).

• Co-lead ad hoc, online, and corporate mentoring sessions as the opportunity arises. 

• Act as the coordinating point for Wedu community members to initiate community-led events, such as community-led learning circles, Rising Stars & local chapter meetups.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in training, learning, and development within the nonprofit sector in Asia, ideally with a focus on gender equity.

• Programme Design & Implementation: Proven experience designing, delivering, and evaluating leadership and/or mentorship programmes, preferably in a nonprofit or social impact context.

• Project & Grant Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and grants, including coordination across multiple donors or partners and strong financial oversight.

• Community Engagement & Digital Facilitation: Skilled in managing online communities, facilitating virtual events, and engaging audiences through digital platforms.

• Content & Curriculum Development: Experience designing or localising content for diverse learner needs, with a focus on accessibility and contextual relevance.

• Event Planning & Execution: Ability to plan and execute both virtual and in-person events, from logistics to facilitation.

• Professional Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across diverse cultural and geographic contexts.

• Strategic Thinking & Innovation: Track record of aligning programmes with broader organisational strategies and introducing innovative approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using CRMs or community engagement platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Slack, Mighty Networks) to track participant journeys and engagement metrics.

• Familiarity with learning management systems or other ed-tech tools.

• Facilitation of co-creation spaces—experience leading collaborative design or problem-solving sessions with community input.

• Strong storytelling for impact—crafting compelling narratives that inspire action, advocacy, or investment.

• Strong networking abilities, with a natural instinct to connect people and build partnerships across sectors.

Personal Attributes

• Empathy & Feminist Practice: Deep commitment to inclusion, equity, and applying a feminist lens to all aspects of programme and community work.

• Team Leadership & Mentoring: Demonstrated ability to lead, support, and grow cross-cultural teams through a collaborative, strengths-based approach.

• Relationship Management: Skilled in building trust and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, partners, and community members.

• Adaptability & Initiative: Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of leading through change and uncertainty.

• Cultural Sensitivity: Ability to work respectfully and effectively across diverse cultural contexts, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. 

Organisational Arrangements

This remote full-time position is being recruited for a two-year, extendable contract. It is open to anyone with the permanent right to work in a country in South or Southeast Asia. Wedu’s team is primarily based in ICT (UCT +7) timezone, and team members are expected to have at least 5 hours of overlap with this timezone each day. The starting salary for this position is USD 1,800-2,399/month plus benefits, which includes flexible working arrangements. Remuneration will be set in line with the candidate’s experience and skill levels. 

Apply Now

Interested candidates are invited to apply at their earliest convenience through our website. We’re looking to fill this role immediately and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage early submissions with a priority deadline of Sunday, 1st June. Due to the number of applications we receive, please note that you will only be contacted if you are shortlisted. If you experience any problems submitting the application, email talent@weduglobal.org.

Wedu is committed to cultivating a culture of inclusive leadership and building an organisation that represents the communities we serve. We celebrate the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, and talent that each person brings. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ancestry, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, marital status, disability, and beliefs.