Head of Education, Skills and Digital

3 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Foreign & Commonwealth Office Full time

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

**Main purpose of job**:
Many countries, including middle-income countries still face considerable challenges such as youth unemployment, climate change, high and persistent inequality (including gender inequality) and digital exclusion, which can lower long-term growth prospects.

**Education and Skills**:
Roughly 8 out of 10 children can’t read for meaning by Grade 4. Higher Education excludes many: eg the cost of tertiary education in much of sub-Saharan Africa exceeds 60% of average incomes. The UK government is leading and mobilising global commitment and investment in education, including for marginalised girls; and working to deliver a joined-up UK international education offer. Our two bold global targets - 40 million more girls learning, and 20 million more able to read by age 10. Within the British High Commission in South Africa, our top priorities in supporting education are through support for Higher Education, Technical, Vocational Education and Training, skills development and youth employment.

Skills development and youth employment in particular, are key objectives of South Africa’s National Development Plan, top of the President’s agenda and are consistently woven into the fabric of policies across the government. Addressing the skills shortage is widely regarded as a key ingredient to reducing endemic poverty, which disproportionately affects women and young people from low income backgrounds in South Africa. We also run a flagship Chevening scholarship programme, offering 50 scholarships in South Africa to fully fund graduate studies in the UK.

**Digital Access**:
Access to the internet is a powerful catalyst to prosperity, reducing poverty and building inclusion - with a 10% increase in internet access linked to 3% growth in GDP, and a range of social and economic benefits. A key UK priority is to facilitate wider and more affordable, safer and more secure digital access for excluded and underserved populations, harnessing the power of digital inclusion and transformation to tackle poverty, build prosperity and enable millions of people - especially socio-economically disadvantaged populations - to benefit from digital services and opportunities.

**Programming portfolio**:
The British High Commission in South Africa delivers a portfolio of activities to support the broad-based and inclusive growth needed for poverty reduction. Our strategic priorities within the Economic Growth team include supporting trade and investment, improving business environment and economic reform, driving productivity in key sectors through education, employment and skills development, improving digital access, support for entrepreneurship and MSMEs and sustainable urban development. This role will be expected to oversee a portfolio of programmes and activities that deliver against our priorities for supporting education, skills, employment and digital access including:
**Skills programme**: South Africa Skills is an innovative programme that supports education and skills systems. Focussed on improving the quality, relevance and equity of technical, vocational and education and training and wider skills development. This being delivered in partnership currently with two youth employment organisations and with the Presidency of South Africa.

**Scholarships**: The Chevening Scholarship scheme enables students in South Africa with leadership qualities to undertake postgraduate study or courses in universities in the United Kingdom.

**Digital Access programme**: The Digital Access Programme (DAP) aims to address the fundamental constraints to digital inclusion through a multi-pillar cross-government structure. This role will focus on the delivery of the ‘Models and Enablers’ pillar, which is the lead component (Pillar 1) of this centrally-managed multi-country FCDO-DCMS partnership. This pillar focusses on testing and validating innovative, sustainable and scalable models for affordable connectivity, digital skills, locally-relevant digital content and digital services for excluded or underserved communities; this is supported by key enablers of digital inclusion through enhancing the relevant policy and regulatory environment, and enhancing the capacity of key institutions; This role will also support the co-ordination and coherence of the Digital Access Programme across the British High Commission, working closely with Cyber and UK-South Africa Tech Hub colleagues (in relation to Pillar 2 and Pillar 3 of the DAP), and liaising with the DAP central team in London.

These programmes will also help deliver the UK’s commitment to support implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially SDG 8 “decent work and economic growth” and SDG 4 “Quality education” 1”, but also SGD 1 “No Poverty, SDG 5 “Gender Equality”, and SDG 10 to “reduce inequalities”. It also aligns with the UK’s International Education Strate

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