Impact and Innovation Manager

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Global Schools Forum (GSF) is a collaborative community of non-state organisations working to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged children in low and middle-income countries. Our vision is that all children can realise their potential through safe access to quality education.
Since our establishment in 2017, we’ve grown our community to 183+ community members spanning 70+ countries from India, to Uganda to Brazil, collectively running or supporting over 1.39m schools and centres and providing education to well over 139million children.

JOB SUMMARY

Person Specification  -A good understanding of K–12 education and early childhood education and care (ECEC), including childcare systems preferably in -LMIC contexts -Extensive project management experience, with a clear track record of delivery to timelines and pre-agreed results.  -Ability to manage multiple external stakeholders independently, working with senior teams. -Skilled at synthesising and communicating complex ideas and evidence in accessible formats tailored to diverse audiences (e.g. practitioners, funders, policymakers).  -Strong learning design and facilitation skills, with the ability to create interactive and engaging learning materials.  -Practical experience designing theories of change and associated monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks.  -Practical experience designing and implementing evaluations, including choosing the right-fit evaluation research design, determining appropriate sample sizes, evaluating the quality and appropriateness of data collection tools, and analysing data.  -Knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methods.  -Familiarity with evaluation methodologies appropriate for education innovations (i.e. agile evaluation, implementation research) and longitudinal studies.  -Practical experience designing appropriate research questions and using data to inform shifts in organisational strategy and documenting learnings.  -Familiarity with education metrics, (esp. child development and learning outcomes), and costing.  -Previous experience providing technical support or coaching in MEL.  -Advanced Excel skills (data cleaning, formulas, pivot tables and visualisation). -Experience developing and maintaining data management and reporting systems (including dashboards in Excel), with strong documentation and data quality assurance to support KPIs, project performance and other organisational data needs. -Strong capability in survey design, administration and analysis (including online survey tools such as Type forms, Qualtrics, or similar). -Experience with basic statistical or data analysis software (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS) or a demonstrated aptitude to learn. -Ability to produce concise, data-driven reports, fact sheets and visual outputs tailored to different audiences. -Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy when working across multiple projects and data sources. -Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, including supporting programme teams to strengthen MEL practice. -Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks independently in a fast-moving environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

-Support the implementation of GSF’s impact measurement processes.  -Support the collection and analysis of organisational KPI progress data, generating insights that inform reflection, learning, and decision-making across GSF.  -Lead or support the design, administration, and analysis of annual progress and impact surveys, ensuring data quality, rigour, and actionable insights.  -Maintain and refine impact measurement tools and databases, ensuring alignment with GSF’s Theory of Change, organisational priorities, and reporting requirements. -Develop and enhance dashboards and reporting systems to clearly communicate GSF’s impact, project performance, KPIs and other organisational data for internal and external audiences. -Oversee data quality assurance and version control, including cleaning, validation, documentation and secure storage of data.   Coordination and execution of technical support across the Labs and Accelerator programmes, including:  -Onboarding and supporting organisations through a diagnostic to understand their challenges, needs and priorities to ultimately prepare an individualised programme journey. -Supporting the planning and execution of an offsite for the participating organisations. -Portfolio managing organisations and collaborating with internal GSF teams and external consultants to support them to reach their milestones and unlock their funding tranches. -Providing coaching to participating organisations in core programme pathways, particularly on evidence generation & MEL and oversee all aspects of their participation. -Facilitating connections with the wider GSF community and network to support scale-up of promising solutions. -Providing advice and support on finding the appropriate methodological means to evaluate their solutions, impact on beneficiaries, and potential scale pathways.   -Supporting organisations to develop research questions and testing plans, and overseeing testing process to ensure organisations achieve the desired results to build on their programme design and scale strategies, including: -Research design, quantitative & qualitative data analysis, insights generation, synthesis and reporting. -Leading monitoring and reporting from grantees, including supporting child development and learning outcome assessments, tracking progress toward scale, and synthesising data into periodic reports for internal decision-making and funder reporting. -Supporting organisations with data-led insights for iterative & adaptive learning -Using periodic feedback for improving programme design. -Gathering data from organisations and developing various evidence and knowledge products and collaborating with internal GSF teams on diffusing evidence to the wider education community.  

REQUIRED SKILLS

Key performance indicators, Performance monitoring and evaluation, Analytics, Project management, Quality management

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Diploma, Associate's degree