Job Ref: BA/DSO/TB/3
Training Development and Implementation
Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Our client is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Their schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.
They have already launched the first 12 schools in our network in the slums of Nairobi with tremendous success, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million families in Africa.
About this position
They have developed an extensive system and set of tools for its School Managers that allows someone the company hires from the local community to easily and successfully manage the operations of a school – they call this our “School in Box” model.
Most of the systems and tools developed are low-tech and paper-based because of the environment in which they work. The “box” starts with very comprehensive School Manager Manual and includes a detailed step-by-step, day-by-day set of processes that span across all financial, operation, instructional and human resource management issues.
Due to the standardization and systemitizing, our operational approach is most similar to that of other large scale chains of service businesses, like McDonalds.
Similar to a McDonalds, the success of the schools depends critically on the training of School Managers on how to use the tools, systems, and approaches in our “School in a Box” so that they can successfully manage a Bridge International Academy from a business perspective, as well as the training of their support team (School Operations Officers) who individually supervise in the field a group of School Managers.
We are seeking a full-time Manager/Director of Training for School Operations who will both initially lead all of these training, and very critically, be responsible for the redevelopment, enhancements, and improvements to the design of the training programs themselves. A key component of this role will be the ability for the Senior Training Specialist to design these trainings for scale.
In the coming years, Bridge International Academies will be launching hundreds of new schools each year, requiring the training of hundreds of new School Managers and dozens of School Operations Officers. Because of this scale, it’s critical that we ensure our trainings can be effective and managed to deliver training with these large numbers of trainees.
This position is about training on the business, management and operational approaches of managing schools. It is not a position about training on specific educational and pedagogical approaches to teaching. The content-specific sessions about how teaching and instruction works at our schools will come from this person working closely with our instructional team.
However, it is expected that this person will after extensive exposure to the key elements will be able to personally train School Managers on these areas, but from the perspective of how School Managers exert oversight and auditing of the instructional aspects of the school.
More specifically, the role of the Manager/Director of Training (School Operations) includes:
We believe that it is possible to address this critical need for poor families through new and innovative approaches leveraging the private sector, and that by providing low-cost but high-quality primary education, we will give millions of children the opportunity to accomplish their dreams. We are looking for someone who wants to join us in this rewarding task.
Other Requirements/Skills:
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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