Rising Academy Network

General

• Own and shape Rising's partnerships into a coherent portfolio of high-quality offerings
• Define standards and guidance for contextual adaptation
• Drive evidence-based product R&D with a structured, transparent decision-making process
• Work closely with implementation teams to prioritize impact, scalability, and affordability
• Decide what is ready to scale, remains experimental, or stops
• Evaluate and integrate AI and emerging third-party solutions where they improve quality or affordability and strengthen human capability
• Equip teachers, school leaders, and system leaders with digitally enabled tools
• Oversee the design and adoption of a cost-effective impact measurement framework
• Ensure evidence informs decisions by senior leaders, country teams, and program leads
• Build capabilities to co-design and test third-party solutions with governments
• Build research collaborations on government-led reform
• Find, mentor, and manage an integrated team across academics, digital technology and innovation, data, and impact
• Build connected, collaborative, and complementary systems and ways of working
• Strengthen strategic decision-making through evidence
• Support new opportunities and represent Rising as a thought leader externally
• Report directly to Rising’s CEO

Chief Academics and Innovation Officer