Article 1's raison d'être is to build a society where guidance, academic success and professional integration are not dependent on social, economic or cultural origins.

In almost 20 years, the association has helped hundreds of thousands of high-school students from working-class backgrounds to enter the world of work, thanks to digital support and on-the-ground initiatives focusing on: guidance for high-school students, mentoring for students, career discovery and integration.

With a budget of over €17 million and a staff of 190, the association has just undergone a major change of scale, and becoming its Managing Director offers an opportunity to structure and consolidate the association's leadership.

Reporting to the two co-presidents, you will propose and implement the association's operational strategy. You will define and monitor performance and impact indicators in order to achieve defined objectives. You organize and manage the team and the business as a whole, and validate and monitor action plans for each department.

You are responsible for the proper use of the association's resources, both human and financial. To this end, you propose, apply and monitor the adopted budget and ensure the quality and traceability of financial information. You define and manage the necessary fund-raising strategies.

In addition, you will set up, supervise and manage the entire team, particularly the management team, with the support of the two Executive Vice-Presidents. In this capacity, you define its agenda and ensure the quality of decision-making and its effective implementation. As Managing Director, you will develop and embody the organization's culture, ensuring the flow of information and team commitment to Article 1's mission and values.

You are responsible for social dialogue with employee representative bodies, and for building a relationship of trust with the Association's public, private, international, national and regional partners. You will act as the Association's contact with its governing bodies, and prepare, lead and monitor General Meetings.

You are recognized for your ability to manage, structure and transform organizations and projects with a strong digital component. In your previous experience, you have demonstrated your imagination, results and pragmatism at key moments in the management of a large-scale strategic project. Ideally, you have worked in the SSE sector.

You know how to unravel complex situations, and interact internally and externally in fast-moving environments. You are user-oriented, aware that to be effective, users need to be as personalized as possible. Your leadership qualities enable you to rally your team around a common project, thanks to your empathy, your ability to work as part of a team and your methodical organization.

Position based in Paris.

Expectations in terms of education have never been higher... and it's never been harder to meet them.

Yet there are many initiatives that address the specific needs of tens of thousands of children with learning difficulties.

This is particularly true of this association, which sets up and pilots large-scale innovative educational programs, in particular using digital technology in priority education zones.

Would you like to make a commitment to equal opportunities and to improving educational policies by developing synergies with leading institutions? Then the position of General Delegate of this association is for you.

Working closely with the President and the Board of Directors, you will position your organization as a conduit between the academic world and teachers. You will continue to develop and promote mainly digital educational applications. To this end, you will forge strategic partnerships with public institutions, local authorities, national education authorities and companies. In charge of the association's HR and financial aspects, you are also a driving force in the search for private funding such as sponsorship.

You have successful experience in a general management role and are ideally familiar with education issues and the use of digital technology in teaching.

You are recognized for your ability to convince all types of stakeholders, both within the Ministry and in the field.

Also recognized for your leadership skills, you know how to unite your team around a strategic vision and large-scale projects, and you have experience of remote management.

You share the ethics, values and commitment of the associative sector and projects of general interest.

If you recognize yourself in this profile, don't wait any longer, contact us!

Position based in Paris.