Senior Policy Manager (What Works Hub for Global Education)

In regards to the Blavatnik Faculty of Authorities

Our imaginative and prescient is of a world higher led, a world higher served and a world higher ruled. We’re a world college dedicated to enhancing the standard of presidency and public policymaking worldwide, by means of three routes: instructing present and future leaders; producing analysis with affect; and partaking with governments and practitioners.

What we provide

The Faculty is a collaborative, pleasant, and dynamic division based mostly in an award-winning constructing in Oxford. We host common occasions and talks with well-known visitor audio system – all of that are open to workers. On the social aspect, we’ve got common espresso/cake mornings for workers, a family-friendly Halloween occasion, and Christmas and summer time events.

As an employer, we genuinely care about our staff’ wellbeing and that is mirrored within the vary of advantages that we provide together with:

• A superb contributory pension scheme
• 38 days’ annual depart
• Household depart schemes and a complete vary of childcare companies
• Cycle mortgage scheme and discounted bus journey and Season Ticket journey loans
• Membership to a wide range of social and sports activities golf equipment
• Alternatives for distant working.

Extra details about working on the Faculty will be discovered on our jobs web page.

In regards to the Position

The Blavatnik Faculty of Authorities is in search of a strategic, collaborative and implementation-focused Senior Coverage Supervisor to assist, facilitate, and drive supply as a part of the Senior Management Workforce of the What Works Hub for World Schooling (WWHGE) – a brand new £30m, six-year world analysis undertaking and coverage initiative.

The What Works Hub on World Schooling (WWHGE) goals to dramatically enhance studying outcomes for youngsters in creating nations by producing new proof, and dealing with policymakers and NGOs to ship the very best instructing at scale. It’s a collaboration of wonderful and extremely dedicated teachers engaged on education-related analysis; creating nation governments who’re eager to champion enhancements domestically; grassroots organisations who each ship schooling and advocate for change; and the worldwide schooling group, from UN businesses to the Gates Basis. The Hub will work intently with schooling and finance ministries world wide, in addition to the primary funder, the UK’s International, Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace. The Hub has three fundamental pillars:

1. Proof Synthesis. Making obtainable to governments the very best present proof on what works on schooling (pillar1)
2. Proof Ecosystems. Supporting governments to generate and use proof for daring, large-scale reform (pillar 2)
3. Implementation Science. Catalyse a brand new deal with implementation science inside schooling analysis, taking present proof on what insurance policies work and making an attempt to grasp how governments can implement these insurance policies on the scale essential for transformative outcomes (pillar 3)

We at the moment are in search of a extremely skilled Senior Coverage Supervisor to construct out our coverage engagement and authorities assist perform. Working intently with the WWHGE Senior Management Workforce, the postholder will take total duty for managing the implementation of the event of proof ecosystems and engagement work for and within the 11 nations, the worldwide schooling group, and/or on coverage areas.

This may embrace working throughout all of the methods we envisage supporting Low- and Center-Revenue nation coverage makers: schooling labs (EdLabs); government programmes; case research; fellows programmes; bespoke coverage briefings’ the creation of coverage merchandise, and others.

About You

You should have demonstrable expertise of working at a senior stage within the public coverage, worldwide improvement or not-for-profit sectors in an establishment with world attain and of main profitable policy-practice engagement methods for brand new initiatives.

You’ll possess first-class stakeholder administration expertise (working at senior and mid-range ranges) in a world context and be expert at changing conceptual discussions into undertaking actions and outcomes. As an adaptable, crew targeted undertaking supervisor, you may be able to delivering distinctive outcomes on time and in funds.

Motivated by the mission of the WWHGE and the Faculty, you’ll use your distinctive communication expertise to supervise the communication unit and supply of the comms technique. You can be snug synthesising complicated points for a non-expert viewers in a compelling means.

Performing as an envoy for the WWHGE’s work you may be assured about utilizing the highest-quality proof to tell and form coverage merchandise, co-leading coverage engagement with quite a few stakeholders and representing the WWHGE at high-level proof to coverage occasions, such because the BE2 gatherings, FCDO and donor flagship occasions, Schooling World Discussion board.

Utility Course of

You can be required to add a supporting assertion, your CV and the main points of two referees as a part of your on-line software.

The time limit for purposes is 12:00 midday (UK time) on Monday 25 March 2024.

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