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Head of Education

JOB SUMMARY

Company EduSpots Ghan...
Industry Education
Category Education
Location Remote
Job Status Part-time
Salary 2500-6000 ced...
Education Master’...
Experience 5 years
Job Expires Aug 15, 2022
Contact Catherine Dav...
 

Company Profile

EduSpots is an innovative, dynamic, and locally driven UK and Ghanaian registered charity which connects, trains, and equips voluntary community educators to create transformative literacy and STEM opportunities through education spaces named ‘Spots’, with a focus on female empowerment and environmental action. Together, we are creating a movement of community-based changemakers.

Since 2016, through collaborating extensively with over 250 local volunteers, we have supported 50 communities in creating and running community-led and owned education spaces named ‘Spots’, with a strategy to support them in moving towards our ‘Dream Spot Model’. We are developing a model for a community-led education space with accompanying network engagement that could have applications across the world.

Our 16-strong but entirely part-time and remote working Ghanaian team creates collaborative learning opportunities through our Ignite and Community Leadership in Development (CLEd) Programmes which include training to lead our EduLit, EduSTEM, EduKidz and Ignite Girls clubs, alongside locally designed education projects, reaching over 15,000 students of all ages annually. Read our 2022 Impact Report here.

We are in an exciting period of our development. We won the Tes International Award in 2018 and the Big Give Supporters’ Choice Award in 2022, and we were recently selected as a finalist for the Their World Scale-Up Innovation Prize. In 2021, our Founder was a Finalist in The Varkey Foundation’s $1 million Global Teacher Prize, supported by UNESCO, partly for her role in developing EduSpots.

We are excited by our future. Do visit www.eduspots.org for further information.

Job Description

About this role

This is a new role designed to focus on advancing the quality of educational outcomes across our diverse range of education programmes, underpinned by a strong understanding of our collaborative training and development approach. 

The post holder will have a high level of experience of education in both a classroom and community context, and have the exceptional creativity and pedagogical skills required to make independent improvements to educational resources and programmes more widely, ultimately enabling our volunteers to have the skills, confidence and understanding to drive sustainable and transformative change in their communities. 

The post-holder may themselves also deliver sessions in an online form or at our residential Academies and regional training meet-ups; however, most of the impact will be created remotely through online collaboration and resource design and improvement. The post holder may also take on the entire literacy delivery element of the role, dependent on experience of literacy development specifically. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Reviewing and improving all the educational resources and strategies involved in our Community Leadership in Education programme (see here) which engages our most committed volunteers in a mix of 5-day Academy training, ongoing mentoring, group coaching, community action plans and impact reporting. 
  • Support the development of the trial of our new Ignite Programme, which is for all volunteers, with a particular focus on child protection training. 
  • To oversee our literacy development work, helping to increase engagement and quality of educational outcomes of our EduLit clubs and wider literacy engagement. 
  • To oversee advances to our STEM and sustainability education, ensuring that monthly challenges engage our communities, and our 10-day ‘STEM for a Sustainable Future’ camps offer an impactful educational experience, working with volunteers to achieve this. 
  • Creating a process for locally-led education programmes and projects, offering mentoring to community volunteers. 
  • Exploring ways to make our educational offering as inclusive as possible, working with volunteers to improve their own capacity, and adjusting their sessions to enable all learners to engage with our programmes and clubs. 
  • To oversee a team running our four online courses in global development, social entrepreneurship, social leadership and postcolonial thinking. 
  • To support the creation of a new EduSpots Ambassadors Network, and supporting the creation of partnerships with schools and universities across the world. 
  • To create handbooks, resources & Powerpoints to meet organisational needs as requested. 
  • To provide regular information on our education programmes for our social media feeds, website and newsletters. 
  • Contributing to the development and appraisal of our education-focused staff team members, which includes four programme coordinators. Depending on experience, there may be line management of some team members. 

Other

  • To carry out all other duties as reasonably required under the job role, supporting the wider work of the organisation. 
  • To act at all times in line with the expectations of staff as set out in the Staff & Volunteers Handbook, and other relevant policies and procedures.

Required Skills or Experience

Knowledge & Experience

  •     5-7 years experience in education, with experience in both a classroom and a community context. 
  •     Significant experience in education resource and programme design.  
  •     An exceptional training facilitator, with the ability to model outstanding pedagogy and inspire volunteers and staff members. 
  •     Experience of working with community volunteers to drive educational change. 
  •     Experience in managing or mentoring staff members 
  •     An ability to use design software and Powerpoint to make attractive and impactful educational resources, which understand the needs of learners. 
  •     Experience of developing and maintaining effective working relationships and strategic partnerships.
  •     Strong IT knowledge and experience

Personal Qualities & Skills

  •     Outstanding pedagogical skills, with the ability to analyse programmes and resources and make improvements creatively and independently to enhance the impact upon learners. 
  •     A team player with a belief in the value of collaborative approaches to learning. 
  •     Self-motivated, proactive and able to work to maintain a high standard of performance with minimum supervision.
  •     Ability to manage and/or mentor other staff members leading to improvements in educational outcomes and strengthening their capacity. 
  •     Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to create positive working relationships and motivate staff, volunteers and a range of stakeholders at all levels.
  •     Exemplary written and verbal communication skills.
  •     A high level of attention to detail.
  •     Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines.
  •     Ability to respond to feedback effectively, always looking for improvements. 
  •     Flexible with the ability to react to change and be adaptable.
  •     Ability to create and foster a culture of respect, honesty and commitment to our values and organisational aims.
  •     A strong personal affinity with EduSpots’ mission, vision and values with a genuine passion for educational equity and community-led development. 

Highly desirable 

  •     Experience of working in a multicultural team
  •     Masters qualification in a related field
  •     Volunteer experience

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