School Management Advisors at Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO)

Advisors Job Purpose

• To support the development of school leadership and management at school levels to significantly increase capacity of principals and deputy principals to support primary grade teachers in language and literacy in African Home Languages as well as English as a First Additional Language.
• The success of this project will pivot around the ability of this project to improve school leadership given the strong evidence that equates the quality of leadership to school improvement and learning.
• To create an environment that will support the improvement of language teaching and learning, school leadership has to address in-classroom factors, such as teaching and resources; in-school factors, such as leadership and management; and out-of-school factors, such as parental involvement and socio-economic circumstances.

Qualifications For Advisors Job

Successful candidates are likely to have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• An Education degree or Post-Graduate certificate in Education
• At least 6 years’ experience of school leadership or education management focused on improving language learning outcomes and strengthening school management
• Fluent English speaker
• Good written skills in English
• Capability to produce accurate, reflective reports with reference to qualitative and quantitative data
• Key qualities of relationship-building, adaptability and resilience

VSO will assess all candidates against the following competencies, which make up VSO’s volunteer competency framework.

• Open minded and respectful.
• Resilient and adapt well to new situations.
• Able to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships.
• But most of all, as this is the vision of VSO, you’re competent to seek and share knowledge.
• VSO has Education programmes in Cambodia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa