Current Job Vacancies at NewGlobe

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement –  all grounded in learning science – to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Manager, Policy and Partnerships

Location: Nigeria

About the Role

• The Project Manager Policy & Partnerships will work closely with the Vice President Policy and Partnerships Africa as well as the rest of the P&P team to specifically to support tracking and reporting of partnership process from start to finish.
• The Project Manager will also support where necessary at meetings, take detailed minutes and ensure real time follow up on all leads by relationship managers.
• This role is a support role and integral to enabling P&P team members to identify, engage and close new statewide and nationwide partnerships across Africa.
• These multi-year, contracted partnerships for complete system transformation become the signature reform of our government partners to deliver on their state’s critical education, development, and economic objectives.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Support the Vice President P&P in Monitoring and evaluating the progress of all partnership discussions and contract negotiations within Africa both at a National and State Level.
• Project manage the details of each opportunity in the pipeline (this includes tracking contacts, conversation outcomes, deadlines, follow ups, and ensuring accurate and up-to-date detailed information for every opportunity is tracked)
• Develop and manage travel diary and meeting schedule for entire team as part of the tracking process.
• Research and pull together data upon request for each potential opportunity (including available public information on school statistics, budgets, budgeting cycles, bios on key stakeholders)
• Tracking and maintaining relationships with key contacts
• Supporting in meetings both physical and remote
• Coordinate and communicate with other internal teams such as marketing, to ensure seamless flow of information and tracking against joint projects and deadlines.
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about opportunity and pipeline updates and progress.
• Conduct data gathering research on potential government partners and international development partners and compile into reports for the
• Track K-12 related developments on policy, legislations and programmes in targeted areas and use that information to help the team create priorities for targets
• Support team through writing inputs into custom presentations and proposals for each meeting
• In addition to presentations, demonstrations, and deep dives, you will need to learn the local context, priorities, politics and challenges, to articulate how this transformation will fulfill each government’s needs, goals and vision.
• Once a new partnership is closed, coordinate with and support our Partnership Launch team with communication and coordination with Government until transition period complete.

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree from a top university
• 3+ years of post-undergraduate, full-time work experience in a project management role
• Passion for NewGlobe’s vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed.
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
• Experience working with government and in education a plus
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively
• Strong writing, research and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Examples of relevant prior work experience include: Product/ Project Management, Operations
• Self-starter; highly driven individual that will take ownership from the get-go and proactively look for improvement
• Strong leadership skills and has demonstrated ability to work with a very diverse workforce

You’re also:

• A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A relentless advocate –The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.
• A malleable learner –You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
• A curious investigator – You ask ‘why’ a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Events Manager

Location: Nigeria
Working Configuration: Hybrid
Reports To: VP, Marketing

Description

• NewGlobe’s unique Education Transformation System is empirically proven to help governments improve education outcomes at significant scale—regardless of students’ gender, wealth, location, parental education level, or home language spoken.
• We, and our government partners, are thought leaders in this space, and events are a key part of our marketing and communications strategy to drive awareness, affinity, and business development for our programs.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Spearhead NewGlobe’s event and tradeshow strategy, including identifying and evaluating key events, internal team training and coordination for attendees, pre-and post show communications, and event attendance
• Working alongside VP Marketing, negotiate and execute contracts for large and small scale events
• Be key on the ground support for events across Africa
• Coordinate with and provide expertise support for local teams in USA, and Asia
• Be strategic and key on the ground support for key global events like Education World Forum in London and Davos Conference in Switzerland
• Along with trade shows, evaluate and recommend the opportunities for building NewGlobe specific events per regions supported
• Be the “first hire” to build a dedicated events team for NewGlobe as it continues to grow and scale
• Build and support the execution of a unique “school visit in a box” initiative for educational and business development goals
• Analyze, track and report event ROI and recommendations for program improvements
• Liaise closely with field teams to execute events when not attending
• Work directly with field marketing and policy and partnership teams to help them identify which events—and types of events—will best support securing government partnerships at various stages of development

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• 7+ years of marketing or related discipline, ideally in event marketing and event management
• Proven experience and track record of carrying out event marketing campaigns, including planning, pre and post event followup, and campaign reporting
• Highly organized. You will want to turn event planning into a science at NewGlobe, with repeatable plans and templates that can scale as the team grows
• You should have the desire to put your event marketing skills to work for a great mission: helping improved education outcomes for students across the world
• Experience partnering with enterprise sales teams
• A strong bias to action—see a problem, propose a solution!
• Experience working in a matrixed global organization a plus
• Direct experience working with teams in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia a big plus
• Creating presentations for events

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and your family) as well as life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Flexible hybrid working or remote arrangement
• 20 days paid leave

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

What to Expect from the Interview Process
We have a rigorous, merit-based hiring process. The process is designed to simulate the essential parts of the job and introduce you to your role in the business should you join our team. Apply via our website.

• A screening interview with the TA team
• A functional interview with the hiring team
• An opportunity to showcase your work through a short project
• An onsite final interview

Job Title: Senior Director, Communication

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Working Configuration: Hybrid (3+ days a week in office)
Reports To: VP Marketing

About the Role 

• We are looking for a communications leader who will help our communications team drive awareness, affinity and engagement for the NewGlobe organization, and, of equal importance, the eight (and counting!) government programs spanning the globe for which we are their technical partner.
• Building top-down messaging strategies on how our mission aligns to the value our government partners experience is a must.
• However, creating the processes to identify key stories from the field—students learning to read, teachers being trained on how to use new technologies and pedagogies, administrators and politicians reviewing real time dashboards to make data-informed decisions—and elevating and amplifying those stories via social media, digital properties, and print publications, is just as central to this role.
• A central goal of NewGlobe’s marketing and communications department is to make our government partners famous for the work we help them perform to transform their education programs, and this role is vital in achieving that goal.
• Collecting and amplifying moments of impact is how movements are made.
• The role of the Senior Director, Global Communications is to do just that.

What You Will Do

• Own the global communications strategy, with input and alignment across key executive and regional stakeholders
• Provide exceptional performance and program management for our regional communications team of 20 employees (and growing)
• Manage the regional communications team, and ensure their communications campaigns, both regionally and for our government partnerships, are optimised for success.
• Work with our government counterparts’ leadership and communications teams to ensure our strategies are aligned to prioritise the right audiences, messages, and channels.
• Build and execute communications campaigns that drive excitement about our programs, and inspire action
• Coordinate and support global initiatives that drive NewGlobe’s stature as a thought leader in the space—award submissions, global media coverage, panel invitations and conference presentations
• Establish and maintain clear goals and measurement frameworks for communications initiatives.

What You Should Have

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in progressively larger scope people and project management positions
• Experience managing a large team of communications professionals, ideally geographically distributed
• Strong track record of communications work in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or Southern Asia
• Direct experience managing political campaigns and/or government program campaigns preferred
• Experience developing and delivering comprehensive media strategies and campaigns, with a bias toward digital properties
• Experience working within, and managing teams in a globally matrixed organization
• Direct experience managing crisis communications
• A strong portfolio of either pitched and placed media coverage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Director, Group Nigeria

Location: Nigeria

About The Role

• The Senior Director is responsible for providing overall leadership management and general technical direction of the entire program, ensuring an integrated vision among different components, functions and stakeholders, and a focus on achieving the results defined in the contract.
• You will be responsible for leading and overseeing the development, delivery and day-to-day management of a high quality, innovative, cost effective and sustainable education program resulting in immediate and lasting change for children and building the capacity of the duty bearers.
• This is a highly hands-on job, involving intense program management, broad technical knowledge covering financial management, supply chain, government relations and school operations management.
• For this role, we need someone who has the experience of managing highly complex and large programs with a lean team coupled with a deep passion for programme mission. Leadership, humility and self-awareness are a must to be successful.
• This is an incredibly fast-paced and absorbing role that will ask a lot of you but it will also be personally rewarding in that you will see the impact of your efforts first hand.

What You Will Do

• Act as the senior General Manager for the program, overseeing budgets, strategic and operational delivery and stakeholder management.
• Lead and manage the program team – providing the vision, day-to-day coordination, resource management, and supervision required to accomplish project objectives and to deliver superior quality products.
• Be the primary liaison with the designated Ministry of Education, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and elected political champions and his or her representatives, responding to client needs within the limits of the arrangement.
• Ensure quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of the programme.
• Identify issues and risks related to program implementation in a timely manner, and suggest appropriate program adjustments.
• Ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the Collaborate with colleagues to solve problems and build a learning environment within the program team and other function heads of the organization.
• Responsible for on or under budget delivery of all aspects of the programme.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s Degree essential, MBA (or Master’s) would be preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience working in project management and design in developing countries, preferably including experience in the state or country to which you will be assigned.
• At least 5 years of management experience, including direct supervision of professional and support staff and assembling teams working in multi-faceted roles including field based roles.
• A proven track record of excelling in the leadership of operational teams, as well as in design-thinking, process and system design and application, managing complex and inter-related functions, as this will be critical overseeing a large scale school system transformation.
• Prior experience within a fast-paced, high-growth, metric-driven operational organization will be an advantage.
• Strong management skills, leadership qualities, professional reputation, ability to build or access key contacts within the Ministry of Education or equivalent local and state regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors, consortium members and other stakeholders, at national and sub-national levels.
• Respect and sensitivity towards cultural, gender, ethnicity and religious diversity.
• Maturity and confidence in dealing with high ranking officials of government institutions, international institutions and non-government institutions.
• Demonstrated excellent communications and writing abilities and superior interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in building the Ministry of Education (or other relevant Government entity) and devolved structures capacity in developing and realizing education strategic plans to provide quality Education services is a plus.
• Passion for our vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed.
• Local knowledge from operating in the South East or South West region, preferably with government stakeholders and ability to speak the local language (Igbo, Yoruba).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Manager, Instructional Design

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Description
Academics:

• The objective of the Academics group is to drive student achievement. To do so, we must know what is happening minute-by-minute for the typical child. The student’s daily experience, and thus the path to achievement, emerges from their relationship with the teachers and the content that is delivered in the classroom.
• Our team is collaboratively organised around these levers. We develop rigorous content pitched at the right level for students to be delivered by a teacher who is prepared to succeed in the classroom.
• Our Instructional Design department builds the content; our Leadership & Development department trains teachers and school leaders using scientifically-proven techniques; our Learning Innovation department looks at cutting-edge research to generate breakthrough learning gains.
• Underpinning all of this is the work of the independent Measurement and Evaluation group, which provides Academics with an empirical orientation toward improving that daily experience and, in turn, driving achievement.

Instructional Design:

• The Instructional Design department produces the learning materials that are used in our schools across our communities. This department has team members based in multiple NewGlobe support offices, organised into teams that each work on a portfolio of projects under the leadership of the managing editor. Driving student achievement through the development of rigorous content is the number one priority.
• One core tenet of the approach is less lecture (traditional among many schools in our markets) and more student practice.
• Consistent, rigorous opportunities to refine his or her skills are crucial to a child’s learning progression. The Instructional Design department structures all lessons, textbooks, and other materials to ensure this.

What You Will Do

• Manage your team of writers as they create assessments, lessons, and other instructional materials
• Collaborate with other Academics Group members and government stakeholders to improve assessment quality
• Provide team members with detailed feedback and coaching – especially on product quality – on a weekly basis
• Respond to lesson observations data on lesson quality
• In this deadline-driven environment, finding the balance between speed and precision is key. You’ll need to be comfortable telling your team that they aren’t meeting deadlines, and then help them find a way to do so, all the while ensuring the lessons are high quality. Feedback will reach your team at different intervals, and you’ll need to figure out how to respond to it. At times, the projects your team is working on will need to change; your job will be to keep everyone on the same page and steadily moving forward, even when unexpected challenges arise.
• Pitch in where needed on miscellaneous projects to help with other academics departments or other instructional design teams

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree
• A minimum of 5 years experience in education, educational publishing, or a related field.
• Desire to manage a team; previous management experience strongly preferred
• Ability to write and speak fluent English
• Experience working with Microsoft Office and Google Drive
• Extremely detail-oriented, organized and deadline-driven
• Flexible, willing to jump in and help wherever necessary, no matter how big or small the task
• Good problem-solver, analytical thinker
• Self-motivated and comfortable creating solutions without a lot of support or structure
• Comfortable working in a demanding and sometimes high-stress environment
• Clear communicator – both verbal and written
• Lover of feedback – giving and receiving

You’re Also:

• A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A networking mastermind – You excel at meeting new people and turning them into advocates.  You communicate in a clear, conscientious, and effective way in both written and oral speech. You can influence strangers in the course of a single conversation. Allies and colleagues will go to bat for your ideas. You have an existing network from prior experience in the country, preferably in the regulatory, education, or business sectors.
• A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, NewGlobe works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.
• A relentless advocate –The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like.  Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience,and value.
• A malleable learner –You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others.  You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
• A data-driven decision-maker – When making decisions, you don’t rely on your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications.
• A curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online