Cognita Impact Lead (Maternity Cover)

Cognita; United Arab Emirates; Sur place; AED 167 000 - 234 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Cognita is seeking a proactive part-time role to cover Cognita Impact during a maternity leave. The post focuses on managing live partnerships, supporting schools, and delivering the 26-27 Cognita Impact Action Plan across a global network.

You will coordinate across time zones, lead partnership activities with The Sparkle Foundation, UWS Global, and other partners, and help deliver teacher trips to Malawi and Nepal in March/April.

Qualifications

• Experience managing partnerships or projects in education or charity sectors.
• Strong relationship-building with teachers, leaders and partners.
• Excellent organisation, planning and risk assessment for trips.
• Willingness to travel across time zones.

Responsabilités

• Manage Group Partnerships day-to-day across the Cognita network.
• Grow school-driven partnerships with current and prospective schools.
• Develop and map a third Group Partnership for the following year.
• Monitor and report impact with learner reach and testimonials.
• Build visibility through media content and partner communications.

Connaissances

Partnership management

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Organisational skills

Travel flexibility

Outils

MELF system

Description du poste

Fixed-term, part-time (3 days per week) | January toend of April 2027

Working with us

Cognita is a global family of over 90 schools across 21 countries, with more than 100,000 students, 22,000 colleagues, 14 curricula and 9 languages of instruction. Our strength lies in our diversity. There is no single model of a Cognita school because education is inherently local. When families choose a school, they are making a deeply personal and community-based decision, and our schools reflect this.

What unites us is a shared ambition to deliver consistently high-quality education, alongside an exceptional experience for students and parents. We define this clearly through group-wide standards that articulate what "great" looks like, while allowing schools the freedom to express their local identity.

We have recently launched a new vision and strategic plan. It is ambitious and sets a clear direction for the years ahead.

About Cognita Impact

Cognita Impact is our global programme for making alasting, positive difference through education. It brings together schools,teachers, students and partner organisations through long-term partnerships,student-led action and shared learning. This is partnership-facing work withreal impact, from curriculum projects in school to teacher trips overseas.

The role

We are looking for an organised, collaborative andproactive person to cover the Cognita Impact strand of the Cognita Impact Leadrole during a period of maternity leave. You will keep our live partnershipsrunning smoothly, support schools to get the most from their involvement, andhelp deliver the 26-27 Cognita Impact Action Plan.

What you'll do

Manage our Group Partnerships day to day

• Lead weeklyworking-party meetings with curriculum teams across The Sparkle Foundationand UWS Global partnerships
• Meet fortnightlywith fundraising committees and coordinate ongoing partnership activity
• Meet regularly withour Malawi and Nepal teams
• Prepare and supportthe teacher trip to Malawi (March) and the teacher trip to Nepal (April),and the schools involved in each

Grow School-Driven Partnerships

• Identify and engagecurrent and prospective schools
• Support schools inusing the MELF system

Develop our third Group Partnership

• Continue buildingout the intervention scoped in Term 1, and map it for the following yearwith a new group of schools

Monitor and report on impact

• Maintain the termlylearner reach tracker
• Maintain staffinvolvement and testimonial data
• Support UAE schoolswith their transformational learning experience linked to The SparkleFoundation trip in June
• Deliver in-schoolworkshops for students, and work with teachers on preparation, riskassessment and planning

Build visibility

• Contribute to mediaarticles and coordinate content on our partnerships, raising the profileof Cognita Impact externally

What you'll bring

• Experience managingpartnerships or projects, ideally in education, international developmentor the charity sector
• Strongrelationship-building skills with teachers, school leaders and externalpartners
• Excellentorganisation and planning, including trip logistics and risk assessment
• Confidentfacilitating workshops with students
• Clear writtencommunication, with an eye for data and storytelling
• Willingness to workflexibly around meetings across time zones, and to travel where required

Join us in a meaningful, high-profile role whereyou’ll build real partnerships, deliver real outcomes, and work with schoolsand colleagues across a global network.

Cognita is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects the same from its employees. All new staff will be subject to detailed and enhanced pre-employment clearance, including identity checks, criminal background checks for all countries lived in, qualification checks, employment checks to include an exploration of any gaps in employment, and satisfactory reference checks for all employment in the last 10 years.