Director, Policy and Partnerships (North-West Nigeria) at NewGlobe

Company Overview 

NewGlobe is a global education technology and systems transformation organization founded in 2007 (with operations expanding significantly from 2008–2009) that partners with governments to improve public education at scale. Headquartered in Boston/Cambridge with offices in London, Amsterdam, and elsewhere, it builds and operates digital public infrastructure—including structured pedagogy, teacher coaching, real-time data systems, and AI-enabled tools—to deliver measurable learning gains across entire education systems. Working in countries such as Nigeria (through programs like EdoBEST, EKOEXCEL, KwaraLEARN, and others), Liberia, Kenya, Rwanda, and India, NewGlobe has supported millions of students and over 100,000 teachers by helping governments run education as a data-driven, accountable system that drives equity and improved outcomes.

NewGlobe invites qualified candidates to fill in the position below:

Job Title: Director, Policy and Partnerships (North-West Nigeria)

Location: Katsina

Salary Offer: (NGN) – 0 / Monthly

About the Role

• As the Director, Policy & Partnerships, you oversee an entire program’s large-scale, government-led, system-wide education transformation within all new locations.
• You are responsible for building and managing diverse stakeholder relationships, and focussed on account management and sustaining our work and operations in the territory.
• You own the government engagement with the diverse stakeholders and the many moving parts involved in our work in the territory.
• You are the first point of call for any communication between the program, the Government and other key stakeholders in the territory.
• You’ll be taking over existing relationships from the Policy and Partnerships Programme Development team and other Executives, and make these your own to ensure close collaboration and on-time execution of the program.
• This entails significant relationship management, as well as project management in ensuring data and approvals needed to pass between the government and program do so in a timely way for program deadlines.
• You will ensure that the government partners understand the program, and support its implementation.
• This will require coordination of stakeholder sessions, government workshops, and government public events and celebrations.
• During government workshops, there will be a need for careful engagement and collaboration on programme details — to be successful in this role, you must learn about all aspects of our programming, and what can be negotiated and what cannot to ensure we deliver on what the government requires of us — improved learning outcomes.
• You will need to be diplomatic and have discretion; know when to speak and when to listen.

What You Will Do

• Report to the Regional Director, to help build partnerships, relationships and execute strategies to sustain our goals across the specific program.
• Work closely with the Programme Development counterparts and regional leadership, be responsible for overseeing key government relationships and programming. To do this, you’ll lead government engagement, training and stakeholder meetings.
• Ensure creation of governance committees according to core programming guidelines, and establish a regular meeting schedule.
• Ensure thorough weekly and monthly reporting to the government begins and is continued under permanent programme leadership.
• Manage and oversee all Policy and Partnerships program staff (focussed on Programme Management).
• Manage the diverse strategic stakeholder management across multiple Government departments and levels within those departments; with prominent education ecosystem stakeholders, including but not limited to the local and national teacher labour unions; and  important ‘influencers’ to ensure the successful and popular launch of the government’s new programme.
• Establish and implement short- and long-range goals, objectives, policies and operating procedures for the government relations support function; monitor and evaluates program effectiveness; effects changes required for improvement;
• Map all key government officials, and create a plan for management of each;
• Work with key stakeholders on consultative efforts to drive reforms in delivery of education to underserved communities;
• Utilize lead management techniques and maintain a detailed and dynamic database of these key influencer communities while tracking progress of programme launch;