Community Growth & Engagement Consultant

Employer: Global Schools Forum

Location: Remote, flexible with a preference on a time zone between GMT-2 to GMT+5:30.

Temporary: Fixed term 6-month contract from November to May 2026. 

Working hours: Part time, 3 days per week.

Salary: Not listed

• Job description

  About Global Schools Forum   

  Global Schools Forum is a collaborative community, innovation accelerator, and partnership builder for non-state organisations working to improve education at scale for underserved children in low- and middle-income countries.  

  Since our establishment in 2017, we’ve to 180+ organisations spanning 70\= countries, collectively running or supporting over 1.3m schools and centres and providing education to well over 134 million children. Our members are standalone schools; a diverse set of school networks working within or across countries; or organisations providing core support services to non-state schools.  

  Our work currently covers three core areas:   

  Growing a global, interconnected learning community. We are continuously expanding our community of mission-aligned, non-state organisations across Asia, Africa, and South America. We focus on creating, codifying and sharing evidence for our community of leaders to collaborate and learn from each other, as they confront shared operational and pedagogical challenges. Based on the needs and challenges of the community, we curate an annual programme of events and communities of practice to foster a supportive community and strengthen the bonds between members.  

     
  .Testing promising approaches and diffusing evidence. We fund and support education entrepreneurs to develop, test and scale promising education approaches. We generate and share evidence on ‘what works’ in education and what makes organisations more effective.    

  .Partnership builder.  We facilitate partnerships among our members, connect them with global actors and foster collaborations with governments to scale innovations. 

  .Partnering strategically to shape policy and scale solutions. We enable our community to engage in the strengthening of education systems by engaging in global policy processes, and with support in forging partnerships with other organisations, funders, and policymakers.    

  We are looking for a Community Growth and Engagement consultant to join our team on a fixed term 6-month contract for 3 days per week. They will support us in reviewing community applications, conducting due diligence and onboarding organisations into the GSF community during this period. The role includes providing administrative support for GSF’s internal community and engagement team. 

  Requirements

  • Understand the GSF membership criteria for screening, accepting and onboarding organisations into the GSF Community. 

  • Review membership applications in detail and update the tracker on the onboarding status. 

  • Conduct a due diligence process which includes reference checks, scheduling and attending due diligence interviews, and reviewing organisations' child safeguarding policies while making recommendations for revisions. 

  • Conduct online research on each applying organisations’ to confirm that they have a good reputation. 

  • Support the onboarding process of successful organisations. 

  • Online set up, management, communication and administration of community events (e.g webinars, new community member welcome sessions etc.) 

  • Support the internal GSF community and engagement team with administration support 

  Person Specification  

  Knowledge/experience  

  • Work in global education and/or international development will be an advantage 

  • Demonstrated experience in administrative support, event planning and coordination 

  • Work in or with low-and/or middle-income countries  

  • Strong IT skills including proficiency in working with the Microsoft 365 suite 

  • Great data entry and research skills 

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills  

   
   Personal characteristics  

  • Strong attention to detail 

  • Strong operational and administrative skills  

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently in a remote setting and to adapt to a changing environment  

  • Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work as a team player with colleagues across all levels and multiple locations 

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