Senior Partnership Specialist, Private Sector and Foundations, Gpe

**Senior Partnership Specialist, Private Sector and Foundations, GPE**

**Job #**:

- req33773

**Organization**:

- World Bank

**Sector**:

- Education

**Grade**:

- GG

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Paris,France

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:

- French, other European languages

**Closing Date**:

- 7/30/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

Are you a very passionate advocate for education? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of children? The Global Partnership for Education Secretariat (GPE) would like to hear from you.

**Who We Are**

GPE is a shared commitment to end the world’s learning crisis. It is the only global partnership and fund dedicated entirely to helping children in lower-income countries get a quality education, so they can unlock their potential and contribute to building a better world. We bring together governments, teachers, civil society, donors, United Nations agencies, development banks, businesses and private foundations to transform education systems so that every girl and boy can have hope, opportunity and agency.

**What We Do**

GPE helps low
- and lower-middle-income countries to build stronger education systems so that all children can get the education they need to thrive. We currently support nearly 90 countries where the needs are greatest and focus on reaching the children who are the most vulnerable, including girls, children with disabilities and those affected by extreme poverty or conflict. Our unique approach works. Since 2002, 160 million more children in GPE partner countries have set foot in classrooms for the first time, more than half of them girls. GPE is also the largest provider of education grants in the global COVID-19 response, providing partner countries with vital resources to ensure that learning can safely continue.

**How We Work**

GPE is working to help governments transform their education systems to get the most vulnerable children in school, improve teaching and learning, and build equitable, inclusive, and resilient education systems fit for the 21st century. Between 2025 and 2030, GPE will support transformative change in up to 90 countries and territories—home to 1 billion children—through country-led reforms that accelerate access, improve learning outcomes, and advance gender equality. Transforming education is about creating lasting change and achieving impact at scale, and GPE delivers this by convening partners, mobilizing funds, and catalyzing reforms.

**5th Financing Campaign**

To realize this ambition, GPE is launching its 5th financing campaign to mobilize the resources needed to implement its new strategic plan for 2025-2030. This campaign presents a unique opportunity to engage private sector and philanthropic actors in unlocking innovative and sustainable financing—through co-investments, blended finance, and strategic advocacy—to help deliver inclusive, high-performing education systems in the world’s most challenging contexts.

**Governance And Organizational Arrangements**

The GPE Board of Directors includes ministerial-level board members and alternates representing 20 constituencies that reflect the Partnership’s breadth. The Board Chair is HE President Jakaya Kikwete and the Board Vice Chair is Ms. Christine Hogan. The Board of Directors, with its three standing committees, provides policy and strategic oversight and approves or delegates funding decisions.

The GPE Secretariat, with 160 employees and hosted by the World Bank, is responsible for translating the policies and strategies set by the Board into practical support for partner countries, coordinating with diverse stakeholders and galvanizing global support for SDG4. The Secretariat’s headquarters are in the World Bank’s offices in Washington, D.C., with a European office in Paris, an Africa office in Nairobi, a satellite office in Brussels, and a support office in Chennai.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

The External Relations team (EXR) responsibilities include donor relations, external communications, advocacy, civil society engagement, private sector and private foundation partnership development and it has the primary responsibility for overseeing GPE's Financing Campaigns.

The Private Sector and Foundations Team (PS&F) is part of External Relations (EXR). This team leads on strategic engagement with private and philanthropic entities and their networks in support of GPE’s mission and goals, leveraging the multiple capabilities this category of partners brings to education and to the Partnership. In addition, the team also manages the Secretariat's support to the Private Foundations and the Private Sector constituencies with their participation in GPE governance processes (GPE Board and committees).

**ABOUT THE JOB**

This position will be based initially in Paris but may be relocated if business needs arise that makes it necessary to do