Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of growth strategies for the Foundation's priority markets, ensuring that our work in each context is ambitious, evidence-informed, and appropriately tailored to local needs.
• Build, lead, and manage the country and regional teams working in our priority markets, providing them with the clarity, resources, and support to enable them to do great work.
• Lead the Foundation's global partnerships function, developing and managing strategic relationships with mission-aligned partners that extend our reach and impact.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver agreed objectives and key results, working collaboratively across the organisation to coordinate planning and execution.
• Ensure that all programmes and partnerships have clear monitoring and evaluation frameworks aligned to our theory of change, and that we are learning from evidence to improve our impact over time.
• Ensure that all programmes and partnerships implement our commitments to accessibility, inclusion, and safeguarding, prioritising impact for underserved and educationally disadvantaged young people and communities.
• Work collaboratively with the Chief Learning Officer to ensure that all of our work reflects our teaching and learning principles.
• Contribute to business development and fundraising, helping to identify and develop opportunities to expand the Foundation's reach and impact.
• As a member of the Executive team and wider Leadership team, contribute to the strategic direction, culture, and values of the organisation.

Requirements

• Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK
• You must be comfortable with frequent international travel
• Basis: Permanent, full-time, part-time or flexible
• A strong track record of leading the growth of educational programmes at scale, ideally across multiple countries and in diverse contexts.
• Experience working within or alongside education systems in low- and middle-income countries, with a clear understanding of the opportunities and constraints these settings present.
• Direct experience working in, or a deep knowledge of, one or more of the Foundation's priority markets.
• Experience developing and managing high-value strategic partnerships with governments, international NGOs, and other mission-aligned organisations.
• Proven ability to lead geographically dispersed, multi-cultural teams, with a management style that combines high expectations with genuine support for people.
• A deep and demonstrable commitment to inclusion in education, and experience translating that commitment into programme design, delivery, and evaluation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the credibility and presence to represent the Foundation at senior levels externally.
• Experience contributing to business development and fundraising, including identifying new opportunities and engaging funders and partners.

Benefits

• Paid time off. In addition to public holidays, full-time employees in the UK receive 25 days of paid annual leave initially, rising to 30 days after five years service, plus 3 additional days of paid leave for the company-wide closure at the end of each year.
• Pension. We provide an 8% employer contribution on top of your minimum 4% employee contribution.
• Private healthcare. We provide comprehensive private healthcare for all employees through Vitality Plus.
• Flexible working. We have clear policies to provide flexibility over when and where you work, helping you balance work responsibilities with the rest of your life.
• Support for parents and carers. We provide generous family leave and flexibility for parents and carers.
• Life assurance and income protection. We provide life assurance and income protection schemes to provide peace of mind for you and your family.
• Investing in learning and development. We invest in your growth and development, including through access to learning resources and training, with dedicated time for all employees.
• Travel to work. Through our Cycle-to-Work and Season Ticket Loan schemes we support cost effective and sustainable travel to work.