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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

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Raspberry Pi Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🔧 Hardware

Education • Non-profit • Hardware

Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based charity and company focused on enabling young people to realize their potential through computing and digital technologies. They provide free resources, training, and guidance to teach coding and computing to young people and educators. Their initiatives include Code Club, a global movement of coding clubs, and various projects like the Astro Pi Challenge. The foundation also conducts research on computing education and supports teachers with curricula, resources, and professional development. Raspberry Pi is also known for creating affordable and accessible computing devices suitable for educational purposes.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement strategies to increase the reach and impact of the Foundation's products in South Africa • Develop and manage strategic relationships with national and provincial governments and other mission-aligned partners • Lead engagement with senior education stakeholders and influence the policy environment • Ensure programmes and partnerships have clear monitoring and evaluation plans • Use data and feedback to ensure quality and identify improvements • Collaborate across the Foundation to develop and improve products for South African educators and young people • Build, lead, and manage a highly skilled team • Ensure accessibility, inclusion, and safeguarding commitments are implemented • Manage the South Africa budget and report progress to key funders with the Chief Growth Officer • Contribute to the organisation's strategic direction, culture, and values as a Leadership team member • Represent the Raspberry Pi Foundation externally • Coordinate establishment of Raspberry Pi Foundation operations in South Africa if required, including entity, finance, and governance setup

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in South Africa • Strong track record of leading educational programmes at scale within South Africa • Experience developing and managing high-value strategic partnerships with governments, NGOs, and other mission-aligned organisations • Existing relationships with national senior government officials, provincial education officials, and education stakeholders in South Africa • Experience as a senior manager and leader, with ability to build diverse teams and support them • Ideally, experience managing remote and geographically dispersed teams • Track record of delivering impactful learning experiences, products, and programs, ideally focused on young people • Strong understanding of measuring learner success, demonstrating programme impact, and using data for improvement • Entrepreneurial approach and experience taking a programme or organisation from testing to scale through government partnerships • Proven ability to leverage thought leadership, advocacy, and policy influence to drive systemic change • Demonstrable commitment to diversity and inclusion, with experience translating it into programme design, delivery, and evaluation • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills • Commitment to the Foundation's mission • Required to undergo a background check to confirm suitability to work with children • Permanent role; full-time, part-time or flexible working basis

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of work • No benefits attached to this independent contractor role in South Africa • Inclusive workplace and recruitment process • Background check and safeguarding support/process