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Job Summary

• We’re not just looking for a content creator, we’re building a movement.
• As a Digital Journalist, you are the frontline storyteller, the visibility strategist, and the amplifier of impact. You will lead the charge in driving perception, generating buzz, and making NewGlobe's work impossible to ignore. You’ll be embedded in a government education program, part content creator, part campaigner, part strategist.
• You’ll be on the ground, in the classrooms, with teachers, learners, communities and the government leaders who are transforming public education, turning their stories into powerful digital narratives that spark conversation, spread across platforms, and capture hearts and minds.
• Your goal: to make the Programme and the work NewGlobe does go viral for all the right reasons.

What You Will Do 
Own the Mission:

• Build and execute a digital content strategy that makes JigawaUNITE and the work NewGlobe is doing to support the programme known, seen, and heard locally, nationally, and globally.
• Shine a spotlight on the transformation happening on the ground in your programme, led by local educators, communities, and government leaders.
• Drive visibility and perception by making programme impact stories viral, leveraging emotion, community, and creativity.
• Act like a digital warrior: relentless, proactive, and mission-first.

Field Storytelling (50% Field Work):

• Regularly go to schools, communities, government offices and meetings to capture raw, human-centered stories through video, photography, and interviews.
• Conduct and edit compelling interviews with students, teachers, parents, government officials and community leaders to showcase the real-world impact of our work.
• Ensure all visuals and messaging reflect the aspirations of the programme and local context.

Content Execution & Distribution:

• Develop programme-specific digital content calendars and execute campaigns across platforms: WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
• Collaborate with the central team to align on voice, style, and global priorities while adapting them locally.
• Ensure the right people see the right stories first, especially government stakeholders and media influencers.

Performance Tracking & Strategy Evolution:

• Measure what matters: track digital reach, engagement, virality, and reactions, across platforms and informal networks.
• Adjust strategy and content based on what resonates. Weekly reporting will focus on tangible impact, not just impressions.
• Always ask: “Did this move hearts? Did this move minds?”

Influence & Community Engagement:

• Build a grassroots digital movement by cultivating local influencers and digital ambassadors.
• Use WhatsApp as a key storytelling and advocacy tool to engage government officials,  parents, community leaders, and local champions.
• Embed within local networks to spark organic content sharing and drive trust in the programme.

Programme Alignment & Collaboration:

• Work closely with programme leadership to stay ahead of milestones, align on communications priorities, and identify strategic story moments. 
• Be present in weekly syncs and planning meetings to anticipate content opportunities.

What You Should Have
Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Digital Media, Marketing, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in content creation, social media management, and digital storytelling, preferably within education, public service, or social impact sectors, with a proven portfolio

Skills and Expertise:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft engaging narratives and tailor messages for diverse audiences.
• Strong knowledge of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, TikTok) and best practices for each.
• Proficiency in content creation tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite – Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and video editing tools (e.g., Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro).
• Experience with WhatsApp as a communication tool and managing internal and external communication platforms.
• Experience in community engagement and stakeholder management, with a focus on leveraging social media for grassroots movements.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple content projects simultaneously, with a focus on meeting deadlines and achieving campaign goals.
• Analytical skills to track, measure, and report on content performance, including engagement metrics, traffic, and conversions, and to make data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.

Proactive and Creative

• Ability to come up with new ideas and take ownership of content creation while being flexible and responsive to evolving project needs.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to ensuring all content is of the highest quality, aligned with the organization’s goals, and adheres to NewGlobe’s standards.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability to the needs of the organization.
• Fluency in English, with knowledge of local languages spoken in the regions where NewGlobe operates being an added advantage.

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About the Role

• We are seeking a full-time School Inspection Manager who is excited about improving learning outcomes in government schools by providing technical and managerial leadership to a larger School Inspection (audit) team.
• We aim to impact teaching and learning, so we need to deliver high quality data to decision makers at all levels of the organization. School Inspection ensures that we have accurate knowledge of what is happening in schools by auditing all School operations.
• The data output from the audits you’ll design and run will be used to drive continuous improvement in the schools.
• The School Inspection Manager must work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and  functional areas, and must be excited about driving change by recommending improvements to our processes and work towards audits that demonstrate 100% compliance. 
• You will be responsible for the daily management of a large field team, proposing and adapting audits to ensure operational excellence after developing an in-depth understanding of the programme needs, analyzing & providing actionable data from the audits via reports & dashboards, collaborating closely with other teams to ensure that the issues the School Inspection team observed are not only understood but also addressed rapidly. 
• Your team of field associates will be heavily relied upon to support school staff to drive operational excellence, actively solve problems, and to ensure that schools foster a safe & conducive learning environment. 
• The School Inspection Manager will manage a large field team of School Inspection Associates. 
• The School Inspection Manager will report into the executive leadership of the programme (either Project Director or Managing Director). 
• The primary audit focus for School Inspection is the entire ecosystem of the Schools Department, which includes all aspects of school management, school materials, school personnel, school hardware, and any other action that is part of our overall performance. 
• The Schools Department is the primary client, as the strong majority of concerns exposed by an audit have to be directly solved or project managed by the Schools Department. Other departments that take action based on audits include IT and  People. 
• It is for this reason this function has direct executive reporting and oversight. 
• A critical component of this role is leading meetings, reporting and providing technical expertise. School Inspection team, which includes staff in their headquarters & in the field. 

What You Will Do
Establish School Inspection Procedures:

• The School Inspection Manager  is responsible for creating and implementing School Inspection procedures and methodologies after deeply understanding our processes and the program needs. 
• The School Inspection Manager will measure, monitor, and analyze current processes, make recommendations for improvement and develop new solutions to enhance quality control. 
• The School Inspection Manager will use and continually improve the core audits and best practices already in place.

Manage School Inspection staff:  

• The School Inspection Manager will lead the School Inspection team of associates. 
• This includes training them on new or revised procedures and systems; supervising them during the School Inspection process to ensure that they are correctly utilizing School Inspection methods and systems; and also supporting them as they monitor corrective actions implemented by other departments for critical/major and minor nonconformities, ensuring that actions are effective, implemented in a timely manner, and are permanent in nature to avoid recurrence of deficiencies.

Report Quality Issues to Schools and Operations Department Leaders & lead with ensuring rapid resolution:

• To support teaching and learning activities, the School Inspection Manager will ensure there is rapid, clear visibility of audit results always visible to the Schools Department, and for relevant audits, for Operations, including Supply Chain and IT, as well as People. 
• The data from the School Inspection audits is only worth collecting if it is rapidly visible and used to drive decision-making and correct any lapses or errors. 
• Responsibilities also include ensuring that issues reported by School Inspections capture all the necessary data required for action by other teams and are assigned to the right team for resolution. 
• Where systemic issues are made visible, the School Inspection Manager is to work with other teams and the MD to identify such issues and any bottlenecks in the resolution process.

Maintain School Inspection Records:

• The School Inspection Manager will maintain detailed records of School Inspection activities and issues. 
• These reports provide comprehensive records of School Inspection activities and help the organization determine what’s working and what needs to be corrected.
• This includes management of the School Inspection field team, ensuring integrity in data collection.

Analyze Data Outputs & Create Quality Control Reports:

• The School Inspection Manager will support and enhance the organization’s performance by analyzing and assessing audit data. In this aspect of the role, the School Inspection Manager finds patterns and areas for improvements based on School Inspection data over time and utilizes these reports to improve processes and performance.
• The School Inspection Manager determines whether their teams meet targets, deliver expected performance, and maintain overall workflow. This data must be provided rapidly to drive decisions in real time.

For any project, be ready to propose a plan and execute:

• This includes creating a timeline, liaising with other departments to get the support you need, managing performance and motivating staff members, figuring out how to get things done when things don’t go as planned, getting the data you need and getting it right, conducting analyses, framing the results, and answer any and all questions about your work.

Lead and provide technical expertise:

• Includes working with School Inspection shared services to ensure that the School Inspection audits within the programme align to the needs of the program. Establish and implement an audit plan aligned to the program data needs, 

Team capacity building:

• Includes working with School Inspection shared services to design, schedule and carry out School Inspection-focused training for the School Inspection team. 
• Conducting regular school visits to shadow the Field associate team to continuously coach them on expected deliverables.

What You Should Have

• A Bachelor’s Degree from a top-tier university, Quantitative degrees are preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of professional work experience managing field teams preferably in implementing data collection projects 
• Team management experience– to direct, mentor, and oversee field associates within the School Inspection department, you should possess effective leadership, coordination, and motivation skills
• Process enhancement skills – to find ways to streamline processes and boost efficiency, you should have some knowledge of process improvement and enhancement
• Organization skills –to successfully direct and oversee all School Inspection procedures and coordinate production processes you should have strong organization skills
• Excellent communication skills (writing and speaking), which enable you to communicate complex ideas effectively to people at all levels in the organization. You will need to provide reports to production managers and business leaders to influence decision-making.
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills. You need to be able to see patterns, be a fast thinker and a good decision maker
• Advanced MS Excel/spreadsheets skills, and mastery of presentation/reporting tools such as MS Word/Google docs & MS Powerpoint/Google slides
• Strong willed, a fast learner and able to effect changes fast. You should be able to flourish in dynamic, ambiguous environments, to produce high quality work with very short deadlines, effectively prioritize work among multiple competing demands, and adapt to unexpected work demands
• 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,  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.
• Bonus – previous experience in School Inspection/audit, including designing surveys; experience working in extreme growth situations and dealing with complexity; worked/studied in a developing country. Experience with data collection tools such as KoBo Toolbox, ODK, Google forms, STG etc, as well as other statistical analysis tools such as R, Stata, Python is  also a bonus.

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About the Role

• We are looking for an experienced full time Senior Android Engineer, Software Development to join our new Lagos-based cross-functional software development team, which will build the software that powers and improves our ability to deliver massive learning gains – at scale. 
• The Lagos team will have a special focus on the learning management platform and the rest of the technology running in our academies (which is all Android based). 
• This person will join an elite, interdisciplinary team that will be building the technology that will take NewGlobe to the next level. 
• It's a great opportunity to grow and learn, while working on developing software with a mission that few, if any, can compete with. 
• We believe in innovation, fast feedback, and high impact. We have an existing portfolio of native Android applications that undergird our ability to support self-sufficient academy management, engage the local community, and deliver high-quality education to our pupils. 
• However, we need someone that can drive the next generation of these platforms, ensuring high availability even in challenging conditions and generally driving innovation in the mobile space. 
• It's all about rolling up one's sleeves to introduce best practices, deliver key functionality, and pave the way for exciting future possibilities, like adaptive curriculums and automated grading of tests (to name just a few).

What You Will Do 

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability

What You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree in related field with superior academic performance
• At least 5 years of professional Android development experience. Senior Android Engineer, especially published apps on Google Play
• Full lifecycle experience, from conceptualisation to deployment to feedback from production
• Experience with writing library projects that get reused across multiple android apps 
• Knowledge of Gradle and DI helpful
• Experience architecting whole Android applications, not just adding features or porting existing apps
• Belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for Android apps
• Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, especially in an environment of weekly (or even more frequent) releases to production
• Love for collaboration and working with driven stakeholders, including presenting work with confidence when interacting with business owners and users
• Openness and eagerness for learning new paradigms and practices
• Passion for NewGlobe's vision of democratising the right for all children to succeed.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

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About the Role

• The Managing 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.

Responsibilities
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. 

Requirements
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.

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Job Summary

• We are looking for an experienced full time Android engineer to join our new cross-functional software development team, which will build the software that powers and improves our ability to deliver massive learning gains – at scale. 
• The team will have a special focus on the learning management platform and the rest of the tech running in our academies (which is all Android based). 
• This person will join an elite, interdisciplinary team that will be building the technology that will take Bridge to the next level. It's a great opportunity to grow and learn, while working on developing software with a mission that few, if any, can compete with. 
• We believe in innovation, fast feedback, and high impact. We have an existing portfolio of native Android applications that undergird our ability to support self-sufficient academy management, engage the local community, and deliver high-quality education to our pupils.
• However, we need someone that can drive the next generation of these platforms, ensuring high availability even in challenging conditions and generally driving innovation in the mobile space. 
• It's all about rolling up one's sleeves to introduce best practices, deliver key functionality, and pave the way for exciting future possibilities, like adaptive curriculums and automated grading of tests (to name just a few).

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field with superior academic performance
• At least 3 years of professional Android development experience. Senior Android Engineer, especially published apps on Google Play
• Full lifecycle experience, from conceptualisation to deployment to feedback from production
• Experience with writing library projects that get reused across multiple android apps
• Knowledge of Gradle and DI helpful
• Experience architecting whole Android applications, not just adding features or porting existing apps
• Belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for Android apps
• Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, especially in an environment of weekly (or even more frequent) releases to production
• Love for collaboration and working with driven stakeholders, including presenting work with confidence when interacting with business owners and users
• Openness and eagerness for learning new paradigms and practices
• Passion for NewGlobe's vision of democratising the right for all children to succeed.

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About the Role

• We are looking for a full time Full-Stack Engineer, Software Development to be part of one of our Amsterdam-based cross-functional software development teams, helping to build the software that powers our educational offering.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code.
• NewGlobe especially values “T-shaped” team members – individuals with expertise in a particular area, but an interest in working across all parts of the technology stack and aspects of delivery.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and support new products and features.
• Ensure software is built with an eye towards quality, maintainability, and scalability
• Collaborate with project sponsors to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise customer value.
• Work with product and development teams to establish overall technical direction and product strategy
• Coach and communicate work responsibilities to subordinates.

What You Should Have

• 5+ years of enterprise software development experience in C#, especially .NET Core, and relational databases, especially MS SQL Server and Vue.js in the front end.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
• Familiarity with continuous delivery practices and tools (e.g Jenkins, Bamboo, GoCD, Octopus).
• Experience in any of the following areas are a plus (and interest a must):
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
  • Cloud environments (esp. AWS) and Containerisation (Docker)
  • Web stacks associated with single-page applications (SPAs) and progressive web applications (PWAs)
  • Other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs)
• NewGlobe is a strong supporter of open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus.