Director of Insight and Impact

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Rising Academy Network

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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.

501 - 1000 employees

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• **About the role:** • We are looking for an exceptional and impact-driven individual to join our team as Director of Insight and Impact here at Rising Academies. At Rising, we believe great ideas should be tested, proven, and scaled to transform education systems. As Director of Insight and Impact, you will be at the heart of this mission, shaping our Learning Agenda, ensuring our programmes use data to drive improvement, and showcasing our results to the world. • You will strengthen our collective data capacity across central, group-level functions, including Academics and Digital, and across our private school and partnership implementations in all operating countries. You will also help set bold research priorities, connect evidence to action, and amplify Rising’s voice as a leader in education innovation and impact across Africa and beyond. • **The Director of Insight and Impact will:** • - Lead the development of a multi-year Learning Agenda and annual monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans that guide our research and improvement efforts. • - Strengthen how programme teams use implementation data, ensuring insights lead to tangible improvements in program delivery. • - Design and embed practical continuous-improvement tools across varied implementation models. • - Build organisational capacity to gather, verify, interpret, and act on data. • - Oversee high-quality studies, ensuring they meet rigorous methodological and ethical standards to measure impact and drive scale. • - Share Rising’s evidence and insights with credibility, through conferences, policy forums, and publications like our Annual Impact Report. • - Partner with the senior leadership team to ensure data and learning shape strategy and decision-making at all levels.

🎯 Requirements

• **Qualifications and Experience:** • - 8+ years leading research, MERL, or impact-focused roles, ideally within education or learning programmes in Africa or similar contexts. • - Strong track record designing and delivering research agendas and MEL frameworks that translate into real improvements. • - Skilled in a range of research and evaluation methods, from implementation studies to large-scale impact assessments. • - Confident turning complex data into clear insights and takeaways through dashboards, reports, and rapid learning cycles. • - Experience commissioning or managing external research partners, ensuring quality, timeliness, and ethical standards. • - Strong communicator, with the credibility to engage governments, funders, and partners, and to represent Rising at high-profile convenings. • - Proven leadership skills with experience managing teams, budgets, and cross-organisational initiatives. • - Advanced degree in Education, Public Policy, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience driving evidence-based impact, preferred. • About You: • - You are passionate about evidence and impact - driven to ensure every study, dataset, and report leads to better outcomes for children. • - A systems thinker with a bias for action - you spot patterns, simplify complexity, and move quickly to test improvements. • - A clear communicator who can translate rigorous research into stories and insights that inspire busy decision-makers. • - Collaborative - you enjoy working across teams, coaching others, and influencing without authority. • - Practical and resilient - you thrive in a fast-paced, resource-conscious environment and adapt quickly when priorities shift. • - Ethical and values-driven - committed to safeguarding, research integrity, and protecting those at the heart of our work: children.

🏖️ Benefits

• **Why Join Us?** • - **Impact:** Our students achieve learning gains 2.4 times faster than their peers in comparable schools, positioning our impact in the top 10% of global education interventions. This role offers an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to this proven success. • - **Compensation: **We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. We regularly benchmark our compensation against comparable businesses, social ventures and non-profits. Rising’s goal is to be transparent about salaries at all levels of the organisation and have a standard, global pay scale for all positions that is non-negotiable. • - **Continuous Development and Growth: **Rising is a Certified B Corp and twice named in its “Best for the World” list. We are committed to continuous development, which is grounded in our values and a vital part of how we bring the ‘Rising Way’ to life. We provide a nurturing environment where our staff are supported with the right ongoing conversations with their managers, among teams and as an organization, to support their career growth and help us reach our goals.