Job Alert: LEAP Project Manager in Tanzania
Future First Global is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead our team in Dar es Salaam. The role will deliver a portfolio of activities as part of the Lending for Education in Africa Partnership (LEAP) – an exciting initiative being piloted in Tanzania and Kenya for the first time. This is a dynamic and varied role and will involve designing and delivering a comprehensive community building programme, to support academic success and create pathways to employment for the ‘LEAP Fellows’ – selected recipients of the LEAP Programme. The successful candidate will have sole responsibility for the design and …
Alumni Development Is Grassroots Work: Guest Blog from OurSchool Australia
Caroline Milburn, is the Director and Co-founder of OurSchool – a program helping state secondary schools build thriving alumni communities in Austrailia. Here she shares her experience of their two-year pilot program. Here in Australia there’s been a tradition of private secondary schools developing their alumni communities to benefit students. That tradition exists in the university sector too. But there’s been no such tradition in the state school sector. State secondary schools are the only high schools in Australia that are tuition free. They were founded on egalitarian principles, established by the state as secular, free and open to all. It’s …
Time To Scale Up: Success in Rwanda
Following the hugely successful pilot in Rwanda last year, Akazi Kanoze Access is looking to scale up its network-building efforts in the country. The project, delivered in partnership with Future First Global, raised awareness among teachers of the importance of this factor in young people’s development. Both organisations believe that strengthening young people’s networks can help improve their life chances. Akazi Kanoze utilised their existing links in Rwanda, built through their programmes on employability and entrepreneurial skills programmes, to provide access to as many as 46 schools. While Future First Global provided expertise, emphasising the importance of relatability in their …
Future First Global appoint new CEO
Future First Global has appointed Abigail Nokes as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), taking over from Kelvin Hughes who stepped down earlier this year. The appointment coincides with a broader period of growth and change at the organisation, with new appointments at board and staff level too. Abigail is the longest standing member of the Future First Global team and previously supported the development of Future First UK, where she led a team of Alumni Officers supporting hundreds of state schools and colleges across the UK. She is joined by two new members of her team. Stella McKenna, previously …
My First 90 Days…
Being the newbie at Future First Global… My first 90 days… And it feels like I’ve been here forever! Which is definitely a positive thing! On Monday, it will be exactly three months since I arrived for my first day as Programme Officer for Future First Global. As with so many things, it feels both like yesterday, and forever ago. And as with any new job, there’s the excitement, apprehension, and nerves. Tied up in the new job there was also, for me, the broader life change of moving away from Bristol, where I’m from originally and where I had …
Guest Blog: Spreading the Good Word Down Under
Guest Blog from Vicki Fowler from Westlake Boys High School Vicki is the Community Manager of Westlake Boys in Auckland, New Zealand. She is a long-time friend of FFG and sat on our advisory board since January 2016. Over the last ten years she has developed one of the most impressive alumni communities that Future First Global has seen in the public sector, and is a committed advocate for developing this in state schools nationwide. Thirty Headmasters, Board of Trustee members and staff representing 18 state schools throughout New Zealand gathered at Westlake Boys High School in Auckland earlier this month …
Minister of Education Launches Association of Alumni Communities in Kenya!
Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Education signs off pledge to support his alma matter and launches the #GoBackGiveBack Campaign in Kenya We are excited to be able to announce that the Association of Alumni Communities in Kenya (AACK) (#AlumniCommunitiesKE) was launched on 29th May, 2017 at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development by Dr. Fred Matiang’i, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Dr Matiang’i commended the Association for taking civic responsibility to build a culture of involvement in strengthening the public education systems which eventually enriches institutions, enhances accountability and transparency. Making a speech at …
Back to School Week in Kenya: our very own Eddy Omondi goes back to his roots
T. S. Eliot says Home is where one starts from. Going back to Migori County, my place of birth, in order to promote alumni activities has been an amazing experience for me. I look forward to building the same platform at my motherland Homabay County, and more specifically at Rusinga Island from where I trace my origin. Migori is the root, Rusinga is the stem to building alumni platforms. I saw great support from the County Education Office, the various alumni of different schools at the county, and the school administrations for supporting alumni work. And I received welcoming greetings …
‘We have already had calls from schools about next year!’: Back to School Week in Cameroon
As Back to School Week wraps up after a series of great events in Togo, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon, I spoke to Melki from JumpStart Academy who ran the campaign in Cameroon, about what impact the campaign had had in Cameroon and his thoughts about alumni engagement in the country. For Melki, the best thing about the campaign was ‘the enthusiasm with which the students and headteachers of Cameroon welcomed the idea, and the fact that it is the first time such an event has been help in all the schools we went to.’ This campaign was the …
Back To School Week is go! An exciting week of events in Togo kicks off the 2017 global campaign!
Our global campaign, Back to School Week, kicked off last week with a programme of events and activities running in schools across Togo, in West Africa. Back to School Week is all about building momentum and visibility for alumni work across the world, and sees weeks of intense activity of alumni going back to their schools, facilitated and run by our partners across the world. The events allow alumni to engage with their old schools and the students now at them, and gives them a chance to share their skills and enthusiasm to support the younger generation. As the newest …
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