Regional Manager, Schools at Bridge International

What You Will Do

• Be responsible for the success of schools and all Supervisors, including all aspects of learning outcomes, school management, and community and parent engagement.
• Ensure each Supervisor delivers on their oversight of schools and individual KPIs. Their schools should deliver the promise of learning and holistic development for children, and have a strong and high-performing cohort of teachers. 
• Provide Supervisors with day to day oversight, guidance and coaching. This includes facilitating regular touchpoints with supervisors, reading and responding to reports submitted by the supervisors, and providing feedback on their work. 
• Provide Supervisors with all training necessary for their success, including their onboarding, professional development, and “train the trainer” sessions for content that supervisors need to deliver to their School leaders. 
• Use data from multiple sources, including your own field visits, quality assurance audits, and big data on school staff behavior, and lead supervisors to improve their oversight, mentoring and professional development for School leaders. 
• Coach supervisors in their use of data to provide data-driven oversight and guidance for school leaders, and creation of Supervisor route plans. 
• Be in schools 80% of the time, observing Supervisors and providing feedback after on ways the supervisor can further support the School leader and/or teachers. 
• Work with relevant government stakeholders in all matters affecting the success and sustainability of schools such as school registration, etc. 
• When observing or holding meetings, use rubrics or other documents to support structured observation and reporting. 
• Support specific school events, including collaborating on programming for such events as school opening celebrations, parent teacher conferences and school closing celebrations, as well as community showcases and participation on co-curricular competitions. 
• Through Supervisors, ensure school staff and students are prepared to sit in government-proctored exams, as they may occur on a termly basis, and with particular attention to national examinations.
• Through Supervisors, ensure school strength and support enrollment efforts.
• Through Supervisors, ensure local regulatory processes are followed, including environmental & social standards, as well as national regulations. 
• Through Supervisors, ensure that leadership & development sessions are delivered to schools during the course of the school year, and during induction training for new staff. Supervisors should use the materials and programming developed by the Leadership & Development team. 
• Work with the Leadership & Development team and L&D Manager to provide, facilitate on-going professional development for School leaders through Supervisors. 
• Through Supervisors, support schools through transition of staff, including school leaders and teachers. 
• Supervise budget and optimization, prevent fraud and ensure financial discipline among Supervisors. 
• Guide Supervisors in developing a clear travel plan and workflow for each week.

What You Should Have

• Proven management and leadership experience, leading teams of people to accomplish an objective 
• Proven experience managing field-based teams 
• Experience in mentorship and coaching of youth and adults 
• Management of education based teams a plus 
• Belief in data-driven decision making 
• Relentless focus on achievement for yourself and others 
• Bias towards action 
• Flexible and loves to work in a dynamic environment 
• Collaborative leader with strong relationship building skills 
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Strong communication skills 
• Undergraduate degree (or its equivalent)