About the role
As Fundi Bots enters a pivotal stage of organizational growth and innovation, planning its expansion to more schools and new countries/regions, it is seeking to build its leadership team by hiring a Deputy Executive Director to -work with its founder and current Executive Directory, Solomon King Benge.
The incoming Deputy Executive Director will guide the organization as it embarks on implementing a visionary strategic plan designed to amplify its impact, broaden its footprint across more African countries, schools and communities, and strengthen its collaborations with educational stakeholders throughout Africa.
This period of transformation will also involve expanding the board of directors, refining governance structures, re-structuring the organization, and ensuring that Fundi Bots is poised to achieve its ambitious objectives and long-term sustainability goals.
Job summary
The Deputy Executive Director will work with the Executive Director and the Fundi Bots Board, primarily to scale and optimize the Enhanced Science Curriculum (ESC) program for growth across the country and the African continent, providing strategic direction, operational oversight, and ensuring overall strength of impact for its beneficiaries.
This role will be instrumental in driving the ESC program's growth, sustainability, and success, ensuring that it effectively fulfills its mission. This role is responsible for ensuring that the organization's mission, vision, and values are effectively implemented while maintaining financial sustainability, operational excellence, and programmatic impact.
The Deputy Executive Director will serve as the key liaison between the Board of Directors, government agencies, donor bodies, international stakeholders, and the broader community. Therole requires significant expertise in government engagement, program scaling, funding strategies, and education development.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about transforming education, advocating for policy changes, and working with government and international bodies to scale the impact of the ESC Program and Fundi Bots as a whole.
About us
Fundi Bots is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming science education across Africa by blending theoretical concepts with hands-on, practical learning through intra-curricular Enhanced Science Curriculum learning tools, and extra-curricular robotics and STEM learning classes and programs.
Headquartered in Uganda, the organization collaborates with government bodies, local schools, teachers, and learners to inspire innovation, improve STEM literacy, and empower young people (with a dedicated gender lens for girls) to confidently pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Through engaging in-classroom support during science classes, robotics clubs, teacher training programs, and dynamic workshops, Fundi Bots is helping to bridge the gap between education and employable technical skills, nurturing the next generation of African innovators and problem-solvers.