Oversee design, delivery, and quality across the foundational learning, early years, and secondary/employment portfolios.
Work with the Associate Directors to ensure delivery is high-quality, evidence-based, and impactful.
Set and maintain clear standards for programme design, implementation, monitoring, and learning.
Identify ways to improve operational delivery, from planning and budgeting through to reporting.
Oversee documentation of learning across projects so good practice spreads.
Create and implement standard operating procedures for consistent, well-governed, efficient delivery.
Manage GSF's largest team, providing clarity, direction, and room to do good work.
Mentor and develop the team, especially the Associate Directors.
Own the processes for allocating team members across projects.
Work with functional leads to deploy specialist expertise.
Lead the Programmes side of community strategy, working with External Affairs.
Build sustained relationships with senior community leaders and represent GSF at events.
Take part in the Senior Management Team on organisational strategy and decisions.
Build funder relationships and lead fundraising and proposals for major initiatives.

Significant senior experience leading education programmes at scale, including in low- and middle-income countries.
Commitment to locally-led approaches and genuine partnership.
Track record of leading complex, multi-workstream portfolios across multiple teams, funders, and contexts.
Track record of managing large, distributed teams.
Experience working with technical experts to turn technical excellence into high-quality delivery.
Track record of improving operational delivery, building SOPs, and embedding learning.
Strong strategic judgement in prioritising across a broad portfolio.
Experience working at, or preparing materials for, senior leadership or board level.
Track record of securing major education funding and leading successful proposals.
Local work authorisation required; no visa sponsorship.
Desirable: experience implementing foundational literacy and numeracy or early years programmes.
Desirable: experience with AI in education.

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Posted	17 Oct 2026
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Director of Programmes