Rising Academy Network
501 - 1000 employees
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Education • Social Impact
Rising Academy Network is a quality-focused education company that aims to create the world's best schools and powerful teaching tools for those who need them the most. They provide high-quality curriculum materials, intensive teacher coaching, and actionable data to enhance classroom experiences. Founded in 2014 in Sierra Leone to provide emergency education during the Ebola epidemic, the company now operates more than 900 schools, reaching over a quarter of a million students across West and East Africa. Rising Academy Network is also recognized as a Certified B Corporation and partners with governments to improve public education systems.
Chief Academics and Innovation Officer
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Rising Academy Network
501 - 1000 employees
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Education • Social Impact
Rising Academy Network is a quality-focused education company that aims to create the world's best schools and powerful teaching tools for those who need them the most. They provide high-quality curriculum materials, intensive teacher coaching, and actionable data to enhance classroom experiences. Founded in 2014 in Sierra Leone to provide emergency education during the Ebola epidemic, the company now operates more than 900 schools, reaching over a quarter of a million students across West and East Africa. Rising Academy Network is also recognized as a Certified B Corporation and partners with governments to improve public education systems.
📋 Description
• Own and shape Rising's partnerships into a coherent portfolio of high-quality offerings • Define standards and guidance for contextual adaptation • Drive evidence-based product R&D with a structured, transparent decision-making process • Work closely with implementation teams to prioritize impact, scalability, and affordability • Decide what is ready to scale, remains experimental, or stops • Evaluate and integrate AI and emerging third-party solutions where they improve quality or affordability and strengthen human capability • Equip teachers, school leaders, and system leaders with digitally enabled tools • Oversee the design and adoption of a cost-effective impact measurement framework • Ensure evidence informs decisions by senior leaders, country teams, and program leads • Build capabilities to co-design and test third-party solutions with governments • Build research collaborations on government-led reform • Find, mentor, and manage an integrated team across academics, digital technology and innovation, data, and impact • Build connected, collaborative, and complementary systems and ways of working • Strengthen strategic decision-making through evidence • Support new opportunities and represent Rising as a thought leader externally • Report directly to Rising’s CEO
🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years in education, edtech or product leadership, including significant senior leadership experience • Track record of designing, developing and scaling products or programs that measurably improved outcomes, ideally in Africa • Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams • Direct experience working with or within government systems • Experience working with global funders, preferably in Africa • Strong grounding in learning science • Ability to make research- and data-informed decisions • Ability to assess AI and digital tools and judge how they can add value • Proven success in C-suite or senior leadership roles in Africa • Experience leading large, multi-disciplinary teams spanning academics, product and data • Experience hiring, firing, and developing people • Understanding of how school systems change and ability to design for mechanisms that drive change • Experience delivering large-scale, complex, multi-year projects and programs on time and budget • Technology skills and experience using iterative design and testing processes • Knowledge of AI and technological advances, digital products, data systems, and AI • Knowledge of global literature and its limitations • Ability to make decisions about scaling, integration, and discontinuation using evidence • Ability to communicate decisions clearly to teams and partners • Ability to engage credibly with ministers, funders, and researchers • Budget responsibility for an organization or large business unit • Advanced degree in education, economics, product design, learning sciences, or a related field is an asset (optional)
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive salary and benefits package • Standard, global pay scale • Continuous development and growth support • Ongoing conversations with managers, teams, and the organization to support career growth • Opportunity to contribute meaningfully to proven student learning gains • Inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment • Child safeguarding culture and protections • Reference checks and safeguarding-focused interview process
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