ONG Internationale | Impact social et sociétal, EdTech
DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2026, 9:00 AM CET
The issues at stake
Digitalization and AI are transforming education and social cohesion : children, youth and societies are impacted. Human connections are weakening; mental health is deteriorating. Youth violence is on the rise, as is violence in the world at large.
Our mission in response
Graines de Paix delivers innovative solutions that meaningfully combine education and training with violence prevention and peace-cultivating relationships. We transform academic-style teaching and training into interactive, experiential learning experiences that involve and energize all learners. We’ve designed Learning by dialog and Learning by doing methods for learners to develop a full set of life skills and human values. These methods are the most apt to cultivate deeper thinking, discernment and the ability to defuse violent behaviors. Our programs are designed for students, youth, parents, and community leaders. We also work to transform the trajectories of out-of-school youth drawn to extreme violence. As part of our digitalization strategy, we are developing an LMS/LXP platform to provide and monetize large-scale, certifying training programs and violence-prevention apps.
The CEO we are looking for is a dynamic leader, motivated to scale up our innovative approaches to education, training, violence prevention and peacebuilding.
Strategic leadership
Define and drive a compelling vision that aligns our strategic, financial and pedagogical goals. Mobilize and align teams and stakeholders around a shared purpose, ensuring decisions advance our core objective: transforming lives through education, training and peace.
Financial and Operational Expertise
Demonstrate expert command over financial management, budget forecasting, and project governance, ensuring measurable impact and sustainable growth.
Proven Sector Experience in global NGO Leadership
Bring a minimum of 10 years of experience leading complex international NGOs.
Navigate digital transformation, AI tools and process optimization to enhance impact.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the benefits and challenges of EdTech
Digitization expertise
Bring a clear strategy for digitizing our educational delivery and administrative processes.
Navigate digital transformation, AI tools and process optimization to enhance impact.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the benefits and challenges of EdTech.
Languages
Fully bilingual French and English spoken/written. German an asset.
Why Join Us?
Your leadership will directly shape the lives of children and youth. If you are driven to apply your strategic talent with deep purpose, we invite you to apply.
Required personal competencies
Vision, intuition and action
- Capacity to anticipate sector evolutions and impulse structural changes.
- Capacity to identify opportunities and transform them into funded projects.
Personal characteristics and skills
- Open-minded, perceptive, and concise.
- High energy.
- Able to resolve issues and tensions with integrity, agility and serenity.
High-level Communications
- Excellent public speaker
- Able to negotiate at top-level.
Mindset
- Passion for our educational and societal mission.
- Positive-minded, solutions- and results-oriented.
- Enjoys cultivating the creativity and fulfilment of the staff.
Key Responsibilities
1. Drive operations and development
- Optimize financial management and forecasting
- Steer and develop multi-country programs
- Mobilize funds and generate a sustainable flow of revenues.
- Exploit the development opportunities offered by our pedagogical strengths.
- Ensure the legal, fiscal and regulatory conformity of the NGO.
2. Innovation by digitalization
- Ensure the successful deployment and massive adoption of our LMS/LXP platform.
- Generate growing revenues through monetization to increase our endowment fund.
- Optimize our internal and pedagogical processes through integrating AI.
3. Communications and advocacy
- Make our impact known to our stakeholders and beyond.
- Translate these into powerful storytelling.
4. Collaborative leadership
- Inspire a positive culture to trigger the performance and engagement of our teams.
- Guide, evaluate et empower our staff with SMART objectives.
- Cultivate collaborations between the teams, the President-founder and the Board.
5. Governance
- Regularly report on progress, successes and operational issues.
- Formulate your recommendations.
- Cultivate fruitful relationships with the Board.
- Impulse financial, structural and other innovations in agreement with the President-founder.
Terms and conditions
Master’s degree level or above, + MBA or equivalent. Additional certifications a plus.
Permanent contract, full-time. Location : Geneva center, Switzerland
Application deadline: THURSDAY, 11 JUNE 2026, 9:00 AM CET at: candidatures@grainesdepaix.org
Start date: 1 September 2026 or by mutual agreement.