Project Director, NewGlobe
Instructional Design
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
Technology enabled education systems
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Technology enabled education systems
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To support visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience managing teams and complicated projects
- Clear, concise writing style
- Extreme orientation toward efficiency
- Refined work habits – you do not require follow up and oversight to ensure your work is complete, accurate and delivered on time
What the job involves
- Audit systems (like capacity management) and processes (like workflow) within the department to identify needed improvements; work with the Vice President to create better systems and implement them throughout the department
- Support the strategic priorities of the department by organizing information, presentations, communication, training and meetings
- Act on behalf of the Vice President to answer queries and support department initiatives
- Execute or oversee specific projects
- Instructional Design is a large department made up of several teams spread around the globe
- Each team has a portfolio that includes developing a number of instructional products, like textbooks, exams, and scripted guides that teachers use to deliver daily lessons
- Many of these projects are interdependent among our teams and other departments, requiring complex, centralized coordination
- The volume of product the department produces each year is staggering
- Depending on the year and how many programs we’re serving, the number of scripted guides alone is in the tens of thousands
- Aside from product development, Instructional Design leadership plays an important role in driving the company’s academic agenda
- This means that the Vice President and a team of directors collaborate with other departments and drive complicated academic initiatives
- As a Project Director, you will play a critical role in keeping the department internally aligned on systems and priorities, and support collaborative cross-departmental work
- Reports To: Vice President, Instructional Design
Application process
- We have a rigorous, merit based hiring process
- The process is designed to simulate the essential parts of the job and introduce you to your role in the business should you join our team
- Apply via our website
- A brief online assessment and personality inventory
- A screening interview with a member of the TA team
- A functional interview with the reporting manager
- A values interview with a member of the hiring team
- A reference check
Our take
It’s generally accepted that nurturing education systems will lead to a peaceful and prosperous world. Enter NewGlobe, a company creating powerful technology-enabled education systems.
NewGlobe boasts an unequalled experience in transforming educational outcomes at speed and scale. Through continuous gathering of data the company has developed a digital learning platform, training and coaching programmes and is able to provide support for the schools implementing its protocol. The NewGlobe education system bridges the gaps in core skills by tracking data relating to learning outcomes and skills.
The kind of work NewGlobe is committing to is being seen to have influenced change all the way through to University. There is no argument toward the need for a company like NewGlobe but what sets it apart is the impact the company wishes to have. Its initiatives like EdoBest (the overhaul of education within Southern Nigeria after the peak in human trafficking and irregular migration) is a clear example of the scale of work NewGlobe is initiating.
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Jay Kimmelman
(CEO)Previoulsy CEO and Co-founder of Edusoft, President of Edusoft Division for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Researcher for Emerging Market Research.
Shannon May
(President)Previously Business Development Manager at Hachette Filipacchi New Media, Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Bridge International Academies and Researcher & Advisor at Urbanization and Sustainable Development Research and Advising.
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