Global Schools Forum (GSF) is a collaborative community of non-state organisations working to improve education at scale for underserved children in low and middle-income countries through:
Our vision is that all children can realise their potential through safe access to quality education.
Our community of 111 organisations spans 60 countries, collectively running or supporting over 236,000 schools who provide education to nearly 20 million children. Our community comprises standalone schools, such as MAIA Impact working with Mayan girls in Guatemala; a diverse set of school networks working within or across countries, including organisations like Hippocampus working in India or United World Schools working in Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal and Madagascar; or organisations providing core support services to non-state schools, such as EdPartners Africa that provides financial services to schools in Kenya or Instill Education that provides a variety of teacher development offers across Africa.
GSF’s strategy currently covers three activity areas:
Strengthening and growing a global, interconnected learning community. We are continuously expanding our community of mission-aligned, non-state organisations across Asia, Africa, and South America. We provide opportunities for our community of leaders to collaborate and learn from each other as they confront shared operational and pedagogical challenges. Based on the needs and challenges of the community, we curate an annual programme of events and communities of practice.
Testing promising solutions and diffusing evidence. We fund and support education entrepreneurs to develop, test and scale promising education approaches. We generate and share evidence on ‘what works’ in education and what makes organisations more effective.
Partnering strategically to shape policy and scale solutions. We enable our community to engage in the strengthening of education systems by engaging in global policy processes, and with support in forging partnerships with other organisations, funders, and policymakers.
GSF is an ambitious global education organisation with a remote-first global team. We have evolved fast since we were founded in 2017 and spun out as a fully independent organisation in 2021.
Now entering our next phase of development, we are looking for someone passionate about developing effective systems, processes and ways of working for a remote-first team that will support us in taking in our delivery and impact to the next level.
As an integral member of a growing entrepreneurial team no task will be too big or small. You will work closely with the Operations Director and the small people and operations team and play a key role in supporting the smooth running of GSF. You will be creating, reviewing and updating workflows and ways of working to ensure smooth collaboration within and between teams.
You will ensure IT and information management systems are fit for purpose and will work across the team to spot and propose solutions to IT and software issues, working alongside our outsourced IT provider, and in particular will support the implementation and maintenance of new CRM and project management systems across GSF.
Requirements
Operational Process Development & Improvement
Information management
Software and hardware management
CRM and project management systems
IT Training & Implementation
Additional responsibilities
Salary: Competitive within UK not for profit sector, adjusted based on location and experience.
Contract: Permanent. Consultancy agreements will be considered for candidates not based in the UK, where GSF is currently headquartered.
Hours: Full Time, typically 9-5 in your time zone but with significant flexibility. Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or late calls may be required.
Location: We are a fully remote organisation. We welcome applications from anywhere in the world, with a preference for a time zone between GMT-2 to GMT+5:30. Local work authorisation is required. Some international travel may be required.
Responsible to: Operations Director.
Start Date: We would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible, subject to any notice periods.
Application deadline: 9am BST, Monday 20th May
In order to apply for this role, we ask all candidates to provide a CV, and a cover letter and to apply through the job portal.
Interview Dates:
1st interview w/c 27th May
2nd Interview w/c 3rd June
Please note we will be reviewing applications as they are received, and you may hear from us before the application deadline or up to 10 days after the deadline.
Please include the following in the cover letter:
Please note - we will not consider applications unless they include a CV, and a cover letter that responds to the points above and have been submitted through our application portal.
If you have any questions about the application process or the role, please contact us at [email protected] (recruiters will be politely turned away).
If you apply, we will process your personal data for recruitment purposes only and in accordance with our Data Privacy Policy.
GSF is committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive workplace, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, age, disability, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or faith.
If this role isnʼt quite right for you but you like the idea of working at GSF, please submit your CV to stay in our talent pool and be the first to hear about new opportunities in future GSF Workable
Benefits
