Company Profile

EduSpots is an innovative, dynamic, and locally driven UK and Ghanaian registered charity which connects, trains, and equips voluntary community educators to create transformative literacy and STEM opportunities through education spaces named ‘Spots’, with a focus on female empowerment and environmental action. Together, we are creating a movement of community-based changemakers.

Since 2016, through collaborating extensively with over 250 local volunteers, we have supported 50 communities in creating and running community-led and owned education spaces named ‘Spots’, with a strategy to support them in moving towards our ‘Dream Spot Model’. We are developing a model for a community-led education space with accompanying network engagement that could have applications across the world.

Our 16-strong but entirely part-time and remote working Ghanaian team creates collaborative learning opportunities through our Ignite and Community Leadership in Development (CLEd) Programmes which include training to lead our EduLit, EduSTEM, EduKidz and Ignite Girls clubs, alongside locally designed education projects, reaching over 15,000 students of all ages annually. Read our 2022 Impact Report here.

We are in an exciting period of our development. We won the Tes International Award in 2018 and the Big Give Supporters’ Choice Award in 2022, and we were recently selected as a finalist for the Their World Scale-Up Innovation Prize. In 2021, our Founder was a Finalist in The Varkey Foundation’s $1 million Global Teacher Prize, supported by UNESCO, partly for her role in developing EduSpots.

We are excited by our future. Do visit www.eduspots.org for further information.

Job Description

• Reporting to: EcoSTEM Specialist 

• To support existing EcoSTEM clubs with resources and ideas to ensure they are providing a range of activities that engage young people and deliver the required impact in line with national curriculums.  
• To lead engagement on our EcoSTEM WhatsApp channel promoting STEM and sustainability education development, Catalyst collaboration and wider engagement in STEM. 
• To provide mentoring for our Monthly EcoSTEM Challenges that support the JHS curriculums and engage students in practical science and environmental sustainability relating to their local context. 
• To lead all administration and data and resource management relating to the EcoSTEM programme.
• To provide outstanding feedback to Catalysts on their monthly challenges. 
• To work with our international partner schools to enable students to contribute to EduSpots’ EcoSTEM work whilst learning about education and development in the Ghanaian context. 
• To create EcoSTEM resources that support learner development. 
• To co-lead the EcoSTEM online workshops each month, and wider in-person training, working with the EcoSTEM Specialist. 
• Effective management of the EcoSTEM Peer Mentor.
• To support Catalysts and the wider staff in monitoring, evaluation, and learning related to EcoSTEM. 
• To monitor, take up and develop strategies to increase Spot engagement in EcoSTEM activities. 
• To support Catalysts in using the EduSpots app in relation to the EcoSTEM strand. 
• To provide regular information and stories on the EcoSTEM programme, updating social media. 
• To take up any other responsibilities reasonably requested under the role of EcoSTEM coordinator

Required Skills or Experience

• A genuine passion for the value of STEM & environmental sustainability or climate change education and an understanding of its contribution to educational equity and community-led development. 
• An ability to work with and inspire volunteers with differing levels of educational experience in promoting love for STEM and sustainability consciousness in their communities. 
• Minimum of two years teaching experience in a related subject.
• Strong technical understanding of STEM development, with experience in leading or developing STEM-related programmes. 
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work to maintain a high standard of performance with minimum supervision.
• Experience working with volunteers and/or in rural Ghanaian communities in an education context. 
• Strong IT skills and confidence in using social media channels and an ability to use simple design software such as Canva. 
• Highly creative, with an ability to drive through improvements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to respond to feedback effectively and be a team player. 
• Flexible with the ability to react to change and be adaptable
• Ability to create and foster a culture of respect, honesty and commitment to our values and organisational aims.
• A strong personal affinity with EduSpots’ mission, vision and values.