G12++ Officer

Context for this role:

Alsama is launching a tech-enabled education social enterprise, one that:

• Will increase university/employment access for talented refugee youth
• Is innovative and supported by technology (AI in education)
• Set to scale across the Middle East initially, and then globally quickly

The vision:

• We aim to transform 50,000+ lives each year.
• Today, half a million refugee youth are lacking a high school certificate, even if they have the relevant academic & intrinsic capabilities. 
• Why? Many have informal, incomplete, or disjointed education. Without a recognised certificate, those youth get excluded from a path to jobs and universities.
• Alsama has developed a solution that we will launch in just 18months (2026). The solution is an exam that allows a young refugee to prove they are just as capable as a formally-educated high school graduate. The goal is to help 50,000 refugee youth globally each year, starting with a small pilot launched in 2026 in Lebanon. As with any such solution, it is the centre of a non-profit social enterprise. 

Alsama has already made significant progress: We have a prototype, a network of experts, universities, and advisors. We now need to refine our strategy, tech-ify, and scale. As with any social enterprise, we aim to be financially sustainable as early as possible, aiming to breakeven by 2030.

Key impact in this role:

1. Refine the strategy for the G12++
2. Secure Seed Grants to scale the business  
3. Prove concept of the exam, engaging global education experts and talent 
4. Secure informal & formal validation internationally & locally for the exam
5. Generate demand for the G12++ by universities and employers
6. Reach refugee youth via NGO partners at scale on trajectory to >50,000 p.a. in 2040
7. Coordinate a team of talented G12++ staff to deliver on the above

Who you will work with:

• Directly report to: Alsama Trustee, leading G12++ Certification 
• Directly work with: G12++ staff (currently a rotating team of 1-2 interns)
• More broadly engage with: Alsama CEO, Alsama Strategy & Development Team, G12++ Advisory Board (senior global group of 6 people)

Profile:

We are seeking an Officer to lead this from an early start-up to become a financially sustainable global scale-up. 

This is a senior role requiring someone who is:

• a visionary with long-term focus
• entrepreneurial (persistent, adaptive, risk-tolerant, and decisive)
• outcome-oriented, productive, and gets stuff done
• self-motivated and independent
• able to mobilise others around them
• committed for at least 2 years

Skills

• Proven ability to convert creative, visionary, long-term strategic concepts into tactical, pragmatic implementation
• Appetite and energy for entrepreneurship, persisting through challenges by adapting to changing needs and context, identifying and mitigating risks without being paralysed them 
• Evidence of problem-solving to smartly navigate “unchartered territory” 
• Demonstrated structured and analytical decision-making, including using quantitative metrics to guide decisions 
• Proven independence and self-driven momentum to deliver tangible outcomes, constantly making forward progress even through challenges
• Comfort balancing multiple workstreams / priorities simultaneously 
• Demonstrated ability to mobilise others around them with a strong sense of collaboration, across wide range of stakeholders (seniority, sectors, cultures/nationalities) 
• Clear, structured, and compelling communication (both written and verbal)
• Fluent in productivity tools (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, similar)
• Fluent in English; Ideally (but not necessarily), competent in Arabic
• Ability to travel to Alsama HQ in Beirut, Lebanon at select points during the 2+ years (work can be remote)

Experience

• 4+ years of successful work experience, ideally in the private sector
• 2+ years of project management, ideally (but not necessarily) in an education-related start-up environment
• Ideally, 1+ year of managing/leading a team 
• Ideally, success in fundraising (whether investments in private sector or donations in charity/NGO sector)