Programme Director (What Works Hub for Global Education)
Applications for this vacancy closed on 25 March 2024 at 12:00PM
**About the Blavatnik School of Government**
Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better
governed. We are a global school committed to improving the quality of
government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes:
**teaching** **current and future leaders** ; **generating** **research with
impact** ; and **engaging** **with governments and practitioners**.
**What we offer**
The School is a collaborative, friendly, and dynamic department based in an
award-winning building in Oxford. We host regular events and talks with well-
known guest speakers – all of which are open to staff. On the social side, we
have regular coffee/cake mornings for staff, a family-friendly Halloween
event, and Christmas and summer parties.
As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is
reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:
* An excellent contributory pension scheme
* 38 days’ annual leave
* Family leave schemes and a comprehensive range of childcare services
* Cycle loan scheme and discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
* Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs
* Opportunities for remote working.
More information about working at the School can be found on our jobs page.
**About the Role**
The Blavatnik School of Government is looking for a strategic, collaborative
and implementation-focused Programme Director to support, facilitate, and
drive delivery as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the What Works Hub for
Global Education (WWHGE) – a new £30m, six-year global research project and
policy initiative.
The What Works Hub on Global Education (WWHGE) aims to dramatically increase
learning outcomes for children in developing countries by generating new
evidence, and working with policymakers and NGOs to deliver the best teaching
at scale. It is a collaboration of excellent and highly committed academics
working on education-related research; developing country governments who are
keen to champion improvements domestically; grassroots organisations who both
deliver education and advocate for change; and the international education
community, from UN agencies to the Gates Foundation. The Hub will work closely
with education and finance ministries around the world, as well as the main
funder, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The Hub has
three main pillars:
1. Evidence Synthesis. Making available to governments the best existing evidence on what works on education (pillar1)
2. Evidence Ecosystems. Supporting governments to generate and use evidence for bold, large-scale reform (pillar 2)
3. Implementation Science. Catalyse a new focus on implementation science within education research, taking existing evidence on what policies work and trying to understand how governments can implement those policies at the scale necessary for transformative outcomes (pillar 3)
As a lynchpin role within the hub and a member of the Senior Leadership Team
with responsibility for programme management, the Programme Director will draw
together our 3 pillars into an integrated strategic delivery plan to achieve
our mission.
Leading the Programme Management team of eight staff and multiple consultants,
this role will have direct line management responsibility for four to five
staff members. Sharing responsibility with the other Senior Leadership team
members for overseeing the culture and impact of the Hub team and wider
partnership.
The post-holder will also be expected to operate in line with the overall
mission and values of the School collaborating with School faculty,
professional services and other research centres.
**About You**
You will be educated to graduate level with a mission focused, flexible, can-
do approach to work, self-motivation, resilience and will proactively seek to
drive improvement and adaptation within the team.
You will have demonstrable experience of successfully delivering complex,
high-profile international development or public policy projects with
experience of financial management, procurement, logistics, contracting &
compliance and human resources.
As a collaborative leader you will be skilled at leading and managing high
performing and happy teams both directly and as part of a collaborative matrix
and partnership structure.
You will have first-class stakeholder engagement skills and be experienced in
working with people at all levels and from a diverse range of backgrounds and
perspectives.
**Application Process**
You will be required to upload a supporting statement, your CV and the details
of two referees as part of your online application.
The closing date for applications is **12:00 noon (UK time) on Monday 25 March
2024.**
Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better
governed. We are a global school committed to improving the quality of
government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes:
**teaching** **current and future leaders** ; **generating** **research with
impact** ; and **engaging** **with governments and practitioners**.
**What we offer**
The School is a collaborative, friendly, and dynamic department based in an
award-winning building in Oxford. We host regular events and talks with well-
known guest speakers – all of which are open to staff. On the social side, we
have regular coffee/cake mornings for staff, a family-friendly Halloween
event, and Christmas and summer parties.
As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is
reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:
* An excellent contributory pension scheme
* 38 days’ annual leave
* Family leave schemes and a comprehensive range of childcare services
* Cycle loan scheme and discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
* Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs
* Opportunities for remote working.
More information about working at the School can be found on our jobs page.
**About the Role**
The Blavatnik School of Government is looking for a strategic, collaborative
and implementation-focused Programme Director to support, facilitate, and
drive delivery as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the What Works Hub for
Global Education (WWHGE) – a new £30m, six-year global research project and
policy initiative.
The What Works Hub on Global Education (WWHGE) aims to dramatically increase
learning outcomes for children in developing countries by generating new
evidence, and working with policymakers and NGOs to deliver the best teaching
at scale. It is a collaboration of excellent and highly committed academics
working on education-related research; developing country governments who are
keen to champion improvements domestically; grassroots organisations who both
deliver education and advocate for change; and the international education
community, from UN agencies to the Gates Foundation. The Hub will work closely
with education and finance ministries around the world, as well as the main
funder, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The Hub has
three main pillars:
1. Evidence Synthesis. Making available to governments the best existing evidence on what works on education (pillar1)
2. Evidence Ecosystems. Supporting governments to generate and use evidence for bold, large-scale reform (pillar 2)
3. Implementation Science. Catalyse a new focus on implementation science within education research, taking existing evidence on what policies work and trying to understand how governments can implement those policies at the scale necessary for transformative outcomes (pillar 3)
As a lynchpin role within the hub and a member of the Senior Leadership Team
with responsibility for programme management, the Programme Director will draw
together our 3 pillars into an integrated strategic delivery plan to achieve
our mission.
Leading the Programme Management team of eight staff and multiple consultants,
this role will have direct line management responsibility for four to five
staff members. Sharing responsibility with the other Senior Leadership team
members for overseeing the culture and impact of the Hub team and wider
partnership.
The post-holder will also be expected to operate in line with the overall
mission and values of the School collaborating with School faculty,
professional services and other research centres.
**About You**
You will be educated to graduate level with a mission focused, flexible, can-
do approach to work, self-motivation, resilience and will proactively seek to
drive improvement and adaptation within the team.
You will have demonstrable experience of successfully delivering complex,
high-profile international development or public policy projects with
experience of financial management, procurement, logistics, contracting &
compliance and human resources.
As a collaborative leader you will be skilled at leading and managing high
performing and happy teams both directly and as part of a collaborative matrix
and partnership structure.
You will have first-class stakeholder engagement skills and be experienced in
working with people at all levels and from a diverse range of backgrounds and
perspectives.
**Application Process**
You will be required to upload a supporting statement, your CV and the details
of two referees as part of your online application.
The closing date for applications is **12:00 noon (UK time) on Monday 25 March
2024.**
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**About the Blavatnik School of Government**
Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better governed. We are a global school committed to improving the quality of government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes: **teaching** **current and future leaders** ; **generating** **research with impact** ; and **engaging** **with governments and practitioners**. **What we offer** The School is a collaborative, friendly, and dynamic department based in an award-winning building in Oxford. We host regular events and talks with well- known guest speakers – all of which are open to staff. On the social ... About the Blavatnik School of Government Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better governed. We are a global school committed to improving the quality of government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes: teaching current and future leaders; generating research with impact; and engaging with governments and practitioners. What we offer The School is a collaborative, friendly, and dynamic department based in an award-winning building in Oxford. We host regular events and talks with well-known guest speakers – all of which are open to staff. ... |
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