Supervisor, Schools at Bridge International

What You Will Do

• Be responsible for supervising the work of all School Leaders in your assigned area, including all aspects of learning outcomes, School Management, and community and parent engagement in their schools. Ensure each School Leader delivers on their schools and individual KPIs. Ensure all schools deliver the promise of learning and holistic development for children, have a strong and high-performing cohort of teachers, operate within its budget and sustain enrollment necessary for financial sustainability;
• Use data from multiple sources, including your own field visits, school inspections audits, and big data on school staff behavior, to lead School Leaders to improve their oversight and support to teachers, with an unwavering eye to student learning and holistic development.
• Use data from multiple sources to ensure School Leaders are effectively managing their schools, and creating safe learning environments.
• Be in schools 80% time, observing teaching, management and providing feedback after on how to improve their class instructions as well as coaching and management of the school leader and teachers.
• 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 in co-curricular competitions.
• Ensure school strength and support enrollment efforts are achieved. 
• Ensure local regulatory processes are followed, including schools registration, business permits, final pupil exams registration,environmental & social standards, as well as other national schools regulations. 
• Ensure school staff and students are prepared to sit in government-proctored exams, as they may occur on a termly/semester basis, and with particular attention to national examinations. 
• Deliver leadership & development sessions to schools during the course of the school year, and during induction training for new staff using the materials and programming developed by the Leadership & Development team. 
• Support schools through transition of staff, including school leaders and teachers; work with local government and other local organizations as needed.
• Be responsible for ensuring all schools have qualified teachers and school leaders at all times by ensuring school leaders are actively building a pipeline of school staff candidates, leveraging parents, local government leadership and other local organizations.
• Working directly with county or regional government leadership, teacher training centers or regional organizations to support sourcing candidates for school staff. 
• Oversee school budget and optimization, prevent fraud and ensure financial discipline.

What You Should Have

• Proven community leadership experience, leading teams of people to accomplish an objective
• Experience in mentorship and coaching of youth and adults, either inside or outside of a school setting
• Teaching experience an added advantage
• 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) or Masters degree