Director – Open Society Foundations Education Programme

Universal get right of entry to to a fantastic education is a necessity for a genuinely open society. As our Education Programme Director, you’ll lead a team this is answerable for crafting a vision for the Education Programme, organizing and executing more than a few complex strategies, and looking after the day-to-day control and improvement of the crew.

Drawing at the knowledge and enjoy of the Programme’s senior team of workers, you’ll use your enormous and up-to-date information of schooling structures and coverage at primary, secondary and better education tiers to decide in which our paintings can be only, constructing at the Education Programme’s modern strengths, and responding to new demanding situations and opportunities. Engaging extensively with academia, civil society and political actors concerned with the improvement of schooling coverage, you’ll guide the use of our resources at countrywide, local and worldwide stages to transformative impact.

For residents a good way to attain their capacity as creative and accountable participants of society able to preserving strength to account, a potential for vital wondering and get right of entry to to knowledge are critical. Access to inclusive, relevant education is an essential human proper, but despite the universal precept, hundreds of thousands around the sector are denied that proper at each level.

While lots progress has been made in latest a long time in the direction of the reform of education structures to make sure they serve extensive populations beyond elites, the demanding situations posed by means of shrinking civic space, growing authoritarianism and widening economic disparities retain to obstruct worldwide get entry to to, and equity in education for all.

As Director for the Education Programme, you will act as OSF’s most important strategist for schooling and will convey progressive idea management to conceptualize the ways OSF can guide the sector as a provide-maker and a catalyzer of networks and position the Programme as a main philanthropic supporter of the training reform time table.

The Programme takes varied processes to influence systemic change, the usage of access factors from grassroots to senior degrees, and as Director, you may be responsible for handling that complexity – navigating and balancing operational practicalities and sources with conceptual priorities.

As a member of OSF’s Senior Leadership Group, you’ll not simplest lead the work of the Education Programme however may also take duty for maintaining and strengthening the institutional, programmatic, and monetary integrity of OSF as an entire.

In return, you can assume:

Ample possibilities to examine and grow, from annual professional improvement allowances to onsite training and brown bag lunches with visiting experts.
Top-notch benefits and perks designed on your properly-being and wholesome paintings-existence stability. With some variability consistent with location, this includes beneficiant time without work, bendy paintings arrangements, employer-paid health insurance, beneficiant retirement financial savings plan, progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family making plans help, sabbatical possibilities, and plenty extra.
A commitment to developing a various and inclusive place of job that enables everybody to bring their complete self to work and make a high-quality effect on the arena.
Competitive quotes of pay.