Head of School - Africa at Enko Education

As Head of School, you will lead one of our dynamic institutions, driving its transformation into a leading African International School of Choice. You will oversee all educational and financial outcomes, ensuring excellence across all dimensions of the school. Your role will involve establishing, managing, and continuously improving key areas such as learning and teaching, finance, operations, and student recruitment, all in alignment with the group’s Standards & Practices and the Enko Culture. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Implementing the Enko model: Ensure the school operates in full alignment with Enko’s framework and reference documents, including those provided by our academic partners (IB, CAIE) and local regulatory bodies.
• Leading accreditation processes: Successfully guide the school through international accreditation and re-accreditation processes, including those of the IB, CAIE, and relevant national authorities.
• Achieving educational excellence: Deliver the school’s educational objectives in alignment with Enko Education’s overarching goals, ensuring academic and teaching quality.
• Building a high-performing team: Recruit, develop, and retain top-quality teaching and non-teaching staff to foster an outstanding and motivated team.
• Driving growth and financial performance: Achieve student recruitment targets and financial objectives, including managing the school’s P&L and leading it towards or maintaining positive EBITDA.
• Generating additional revenue: Develop and execute strategies to create new revenue streams that support the school’s growth and sustainability.
• Enhancing parent and student experience: Ensure high levels of satisfaction among students and parents, fostering a strong sense of community and partnership.
• Contributing to network development: Actively participate in improving the Enko model and support the expansion of our network across Africa, leveraging insights and best practices.

As the local representative of the Enko brand, you will actively engage with stakeholders—parents, staff, shareholders, partners, and landlords—to uphold and enhance the school’s reputation and mission.
Reporting to the School Management Committee, you will collaborate closely with the school's Sponsor and leverage the resources and expertise from the Central team and the other Heads of Schools. 
The ideal candidate

• Has full working proficiency in both English and French
• Shares our excitement to offer top-notch international education to the fast-growing African middle-class
• Demonstrates respect and passion for the African continent
• Embodies our values like no other. Lives and breathes the values of IB especially
• Understands affordability challenges and the expectations we face with our parent population
• Has extensive experience as a head of school or the motivation and skills to become one
• Has demonstrated management experience
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on attitude, lots of energy and resilience
• Is highly at ease with use of technology, both for educational purposes (e.g. blended learning) as in daily professional practice
• Thinks growth and scale, to tackle one of the largest and most pressing needs of the continent