Director of Government Partnerships - Sierra Leone

About Imagine Worldwide All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don't have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide believes that every child should be empowered with the basic right to literacy and numeracy. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation.

Our model is massively scalable, evidence-based, and can deliver foundational learning to millions of the most marginalized children.

Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child‑directed, tablet‑based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are a California‑based (United States) nonprofit organization operating across seven Sub‑Saharan African countries. Learn more on our website.

The Director of Government Partnerships will play an instrumental role in carrying out Imagine's mission, to design, deliver, and scale tablet‑based learning solutions that enable children to become literate and numerate in Sierra Leone, and secondly institutionalizing the program within the government for long‑term sustainability. The Director will join a highly committed and collaborative team that is working together to empower every child, everywhere to achieve their full potential.

They will work directly with the Executive Director of Imagine Sierra Leone and Imagine's Head of Government Partnerships, to manage Imagine's path to the national adoption of our edtech program in Sierra Leone.

The Director of Government Partnerships will take overall leadership and responsibility for engagements with government stakeholders nationwide adoption of our tablet learning program in Sierra Leone and the institutionalization of the program into the Ministry's core education programming in the country.

Mission: Lead and manage all interactions with government entities to ensure alignment, compliance, and strategic collaboration for program implementation, policy influence, and institutionalization.

• Develop government engagement plans, setting clear objectives and defining activities;
• Setup regular meetings with different government stakeholders to discuss program progress and resolve any challenges with implementation;
• Support and facilitate functional teams or working groups between Imagine Sierra Leone and Government stakeholders to ensure effective joint planning and delivery of activities between the Imagine, and government personnel to build government capacity;
• Oversee work streams, assess resource requirements, and plan adequately to support government engagement activities;
• Support the Executive Director's engagements with the Government officers at different levels to ensure capacity building and ownership of the program;
• Support program implementation governance arrangements and ensure they operate efficiently between the program and the government;
• Collaborate with the Government to implement the program with a clear goal of devolving power and ownership to government actors over time.

• Uphold principles of system strengthening where Imagine plays a temporary role in program implementation with a clear goal of driving governments full ownership of the program;
• Lead in‑country government engagement strategies in liaison with Imagine Worldwide to ensure continued alignment with Government on key program‑related matters;
• Liaise with the governments policy and planning units to drive integration of program activities in the Ministry's primary operating systems for enhanced support;
• Contribute to designing metrics and criteria to measure, monitor and report on progress towards institutionalization goals;
• Explore critical partnerships within the government education delivery system and secure their alignment and support for the program;
• Develop, negotiate, and manage MOUs and partnership agreements with government entities and relevant stakeholders.