Project Lead for Maths4Girls Remote
Job description
Thank you for your interest in applying for the Project Lead at Maths4Girls!
The Maths4Girls initiativewas launched in 2019 to encourage more girls to continue with maths beyond GCSEs with the endorsement of the Maths Anxiety Trust, the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) and the Department for Education (DfE).
Independent assessment of the Pilot Maths4Girls encounters showed material increases in girls’ confidence in attaining GCSE grades and their intention to study Maths post GCSEs. After a successful pilot and initial rollout, we now seek an exceptional candidate to work with us to lead the delivery of the outcomes of the project across the UK.
Our goal for 2023 is to build on the success of the pilot and to extend it so that every 11-14 girl meets several role models from different fields of work.
If this sounds like an opportunity that you would love, then please do apply to us by emailing Laura Cook.
Mina & Sherry
Co-Founders & Co-Chairs
Who we are
Most developed and many developing nations make it mandatory for 100% of secondary students to take both a Maths and a Science course every year through to graduation. They do so to improve the skills of their workforce, the competitive advantage of their nation, the productivity of their businesses and the life chances of the next generation.
In England, instead of 100% of girls taking maths in secondary school to graduation, the majority choose not to: In 2020 only 39% of girls took A levels post GCSEs and 29% took further Maths. 33% took Core Maths. The majority of girls are making irreversible life choices at 15 or 16. These decisions are made without the impact of these choices being clear to them and without having met sufficient role models in their classroom who, as practitioners can bring these subjects to life for the next generation. These choices foreclose future career options and are damaging to society and businesses which need people to have a foundation in Maths.
While we cannot mandate mandatory Maths in the English curriculum, we can work together with teachers to persuade girls to continue in Maths past GCSEs. Maths4Girls was set up by Mina Gerowin, one of the first women both in Hedge Funds, and previously in Mergers & Acquisitions at Lazard Freres, who has served as a multinational Board Director and Sherry Coutu CBE, a female serial entrepreneur who Chairs Founders4Schools, the leading transition to work charity in the UK. Seed funding was provided by 100 Women in Finance.
Just before the pandemic, Maths4Girls recruited several hundred volunteer female Role Models from every sector of corporates and startups. Their defining characteristic was that their current roles required them to use Maths in their daily work, ranging from STEM, Finance, IT digital, business and climate science. The Role Models explain how they use Maths at work. These inspirational women volunteer up to 8 times per year (one hour per session) of time with their organisation’s blessing to make themselves available in schools so that girls can more easily understand what they could become, were they to continue with Maths post GCSE.
M4Gs volunteers are trained and supported to visit classes where they talk about their work, the Maths they studied, and how they use it daily and the interesting and high-impact & high-earning careers that Maths opened up for them. Maths4Girls role models are made available to teachers at no cost via the Founders4Schools ed-tech platform.
We’d love to persuade all girls to continue in Maths – and to do that we need corporate sponsors, role models and schools. We need sponsors to donate funds as well as time for employees to be role models and schools to schedule sessions.
Your Role: We are engaging with senior stakeholders and are eager to develop and maintain our relationships, you will take the lead on project delivery and supporting additional fundraising for the Maths4Girls (M4G) initiative over the years.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
Lead the M4G project with the objective of reaching 250,000 girls through 500 schools is achieved which includes activities including but not restricted to:
Fundraising & Account Management
- Ensuring fundraising objectives are achieved
- Engage with corporates to ensure we have enough volunteers
- Update our corporate supporters with their KPIs monthly
- Support the onboarding of volunteers from partners.
Volunteers Recruitment and Management:
- Coordinate and support the recruitment and engagement of M4G volunteers
Leadership Council Engagement:
- Coordinate the M4G Advisory Group meetings.
- Be an active member of the M4G Advisory Group to ensure project success
Communications and Marketing: Own the marketing initiatives to keep the M4G partner, schools and business leader community engaged and growing.
- Thought leadership, round tables and policy engagement
- Create & Coordinate comms with educators and partners.
- Drive social media, blog and newsletter communications.
- Use our CRM system
Who would you be working with?
Sherry Coutu CBE - F4S Founder & Chair of Trustees
Chairs Founders4Schools, and serves as a non-executive Director or Trustee of Workfinder, Pearson, and Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. She is also an author and a philanthropist, was awarded a CBE for Services to the Economy in 2013 and has been awarded three honorary doctorates for her work in education and its relation to economic growth.
Mina Gerowin - Founder, Benefactor & Fundraiser
Mina is a Trustee of The Population Council and on the advisory board of RUSI. Mina was one of the first women to break into the hedge fund industry and was the first female Vice President at Lazard Freres and Co. Mina moved to London in 2008 where she headed Paulson’s European event, distressed and credit investment teams. In 2009 Mina was awarded the European Hedge Fund Leadership Award of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (now 100 Women in Finance) and has been named several times as one of the Top 100 Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal and as one of the Top 50 Women in Finance by efinancial news/Dow Jones. Mina is a former non-executive director of EXOR, CNH Industrial NV, Lafarge SA, CQS Asset Management, 100 Women in Finance and the Global Advisory Committee of Samsung Asset Management
Pete Ure: Analysis, Data and Insight:
Pete has been working with Founders4Schools since Sept 2016 and is a magician with impact reporting so that all stakeholders can see the impact of the work we do. Report construction, examining trends and correlations. Blending internal data with social indicators. Visualizations are used to aid operational understanding and therefore add value; also for fundraising and marketing.
Laura Cook: Executive Assistant
Laura helps our team achieve everything we need to be by flexing a variety of superpowers that range from event management to diary management to company secretarial and project management.
Ashley To: Software Developer
Ashley has been working with Founders4Schools since March 2017 whilst he completed a BS in Computer Science in Computer Science (with distinction). He is a master of technology which allows us to leverage the goodwill of the partners whose employees wish to engage with their communities so that they develop the skills they need.
Alison McEwan - Executive Director of Founders4Schools
Alison is an experienced communications and marketing project manager specialising in public sector, education and business engagement with a focus on stakeholder engagement, partnership building and event management.
The schedule for our 2023 Advisory Council meetings is as follows:
- Each meeting lasts 90 minutes and is held on Zoom and in person. If in person, then networking will occur afterwards.
Tues 24th January 16:00 - 17:30
[14 or 28] March 16:00 - 17:30
Wed 28th June 16:00 - 17:30
Wed 20th September 16:00 - 17:30
Wed 29th November 16:00 - 17:30
About M4G Leadership Council & Steering Committee
About Founders4Schools:
We're an award-winning charity that empowers young people to make informed career choices by connecting them with a network of inspiring volunteer role models. We work in partnership with governments, Corporates and Educational Institutions to bridge the gap between education and the world of work.
Whether in a classroom or a virtual setting, students gain valuable insights into different career paths through meaningful encounters with professionals from diverse backgrounds.
Our mission is to give all young people the best start in life, no matter their background, by preparing them for the ever-changing world of work. So far, we've impacted the lives of over 580,000 young people by facilitating over 2 million student-employer connections through our user-friendly platform."
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
