Profile – Godwin Khosa

Mr Godwin Khosa, Chief Executive Officer, JET Education Services, is a speaker in the Regenesys Leadership Exchange Seminar Series.

Godwin Khosa was appointed Chief Executive Officer of JET Education Services in October 2009. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Office, he held the position of Programme Director at JET Education Services. In his capacity as Programme Director he was managing the education divisions of the organisation and provided advisory and technical support services to Ministries of Education nationally and internationally, particularly in the Seychelles, SADC etc). He also served as team leader on a seven-year education change programme in Limpopo province. The position of team leader entailed designing and implementing a broad scope of education change initiative using over 80 national and international technical assistants. Among others, the intervention areas included EMIS, financial management, human resources development strategy, GET whole school development and Further Education and Training college transformation.

Before serving as the programme team leader, Godwin worked as a research manager at the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa (2001 -2003). During this period he carried out a range of research activities in the areas of education governance, management and quality assurance. Among others, he managed the evaluation of a multi-year school development project and an evaluation of the Seychelles School Improvement programme. Prior to joining the research council, he served as a policy analyst and a senior manager at the Centre for Education Policy Development where he was engaged in numerous large scale policy development and monitoring projects. He led the design and the management of the following projects: an audit of quality assurance in the provincial departments of education, a project to develop and pilot quality indicators for schooling, and the design and piloting of the national systemic evaluation system. He has also carried out various research and capacity building assignments for the nine provincial departments of education including training courses through the Wits Public and Development Management School.

Prior to Joining the CEPD he was a high school teacher for three years (1993-95), after which he served as an intern with the Ministerial Task Team on Education Management Development (EMD). The Task Team produced a report on its investigations on EMD in South Africa and also facilitated the setting up of school governing bodies nationally.
Godwin holds the following qualifications: Master of Management in Public and Development Management (Wits), Post-graduate Diploma in Public Policy Development and Administration (Wits), B.A.,Hons Geography (UNISA), B.A. Education (UNIN).

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