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Role Overview

• The Music Teacher will lead music instruction and help build the music culture of Sankoré International School from its founding stage. Reporting to the Head of Teaching and Learning, the teacher will design and deliver developmentally appropriate music learning for early years and elementary students, integrating singing, rhythm, movement, instruments, listening, music theory, composition, performance, and cultural exploration.
• This role will also support choirs, instrumental learning, school performances, extracurricular music opportunities, vendor coordination, and production needs for assemblies, showcases, celebrations, and community events. The program should emphasize age-appropriate instruction, music theory and performance, curriculum integration, singing, instrumental activities, movement, student creativity, assessment, and participation in concerts, assemblies, and community celebrations.
• The ideal candidate is a skilled musician and educator who can teach young learners, build systems, collaborate with classroom teachers, and establish traditions that make music visible and valued across the school.

Core Responsibilities

Music Teaching and Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging, inclusive music lessons for early years and elementary students.
• Teach age-appropriate singing, rhythm, movement, listening, composition, improvisation, instrumental exploration, and foundational music theory.
• Build students’ musical confidence, creativity, listening skills, collaboration, memory, coordination, and expressive capacity.
• Introduce students to a wide range of musical forms, traditions, instruments, artists, composers, and performance practices.
• Differentiate music instruction for learners with varied language, developmental, sensory, physical, and learning needs.
• Create a classroom culture where all students can participate, take risks, and experience joy in music.

Curriculum Planning and Integration

• Develop a coherent music curriculum progression for early years through elementary school.
• Align music instruction with Sankoré’s learning goals, values, and broader curriculum.
• Design and run co-curricular music offerings aligned with the Sankoré portrait of a learner.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to connect music with units of inquiry, language, storytelling, movement, culture, STEAM, social studies, and community themes.
• Use inquiry-based and project-based approaches that help students create, perform, respond, and reflect.
• Maintain clear lesson plans, learning objectives, assessment practices, and materials lists.
• Contribute to long-term planning of the music program as Sankoré expands grade by grade.

Choir, Voice, and Ensemble Development

• Establish and lead age-appropriate singing opportunities, including classroom singing, choir, assemblies, and school performances.
• Teach healthy vocal habits, pitch awareness, rhythm, diction, listening, ensemble discipline, and expressive performance.
• Build student confidence in singing individually and as part of a group.
• Develop simple ensemble opportunities using classroom instruments, percussion, recorders, ukuleles, keyboards, or other age-appropriate instruments.
• Prepare students for performances in ways that are joyful, developmentally appropriate, and inclusive.

Instruments, Music Theory, and Creative Musicianship

• Introduce students to foundational music theory, including rhythm, melody, tempo, dynamics, notation, form, and musical vocabulary.
• Build practical musicianship through percussion, voice, movement, body percussion, tuned and untuned instruments, and accessible classroom instruments.
• Support students to compose, improvise, arrange, and respond to music creatively.
• Maintain and organize instruments, equipment, sheet music, digital resources, and classroom materials.
• Advise school leadership on instrument procurement, maintenance, storage, and long-term music program needs.

Kenyan, African, and Global Music

• Integrate Kenyan and African music traditions into the curriculum in respectful, age-appropriate, and meaningful ways.
• Help students explore music as a source of identity, memory, culture, community, and storytelling.
• Introduce students to global music traditions, encouraging curiosity, respect, and cultural appreciation.
• Work with families, artists, community members, or vendors where appropriate to enrich student learning.
• Avoid tokenistic cultural representation by connecting music to context, meaning, practice, and lived experience.

Performances, Productions, and School Events

• Plan, rehearse, and coordinate student music performances for assemblies, showcases, family events, celebrations, and school milestones.
• Support production needs such as sound checks, microphones, backing tracks, staging, cues, music selection, and rehearsal schedules.
• Collaborate with arts, PE, classroom, operations, and leadership teams on interdisciplinary performances and school events.
• Ensure performances are inclusive, well-organized, age-appropriate, and aligned with Sankoré’s values.
• Help establish musical traditions that strengthen school identity and community.

Extracurricular Music and Vendor Coordination

• Develop, run, and and support co-curricular music opportunities, such as choir, percussion ensemble, instrumental clubs, music production, songwriting, or performance groups.
• Coordinate external music vendors, instructors, artists, or coaches where needed.
• Help identify, vet, onboard, schedule, and monitor external providers.
• Ensure vendors follow Sankoré’s safeguarding, professionalism, quality, attendance, communication, and child protection expectations.
• Maintain records related to extracurricular participation, schedules, vendor performance, and student engagement.

Safeguarding, Inclusion, and Student Wellbeing

• Uphold Sankoré’s safeguarding, child protection, and student wellbeing expectations at all times.
• Maintain professional boundaries and safe supervision during lessons, rehearsals, performances, extracurriculars, and vendor-led activities.
• Build a music classroom where students feel safe, respected, included, and confident to express themselves.
• Follow school procedures for concerns related to wellbeing, safety, behavior, or child protection.
• Promote healthy performance culture, avoiding shame, comparison, exclusion, or excessive pressure.
• Protect student dignity in rehearsals, performances, recordings, photographs, and public showcases.

Assessment, Documentation, and Communication

• Assess student growth through participation, process, performance, listening, creativity, reflection, and skill development.
• Provide constructive feedback that helps students improve while sustaining confidence.
• Maintain simple records of student progress and communicate relevant insights to classroom teachers and school leaders.
• Contribute to family communication, student reports, exhibitions, and school showcases as needed.
• Document curriculum plans, repertoire, performance schedules, vendor arrangements, and resource needs.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Music Education, Music, Performing Arts, Education, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, or a related field.
• Teaching qualification, music education training, or demonstrable experience teaching music to children.
• At least 3 years of experience teaching music, leading children’s choirs, facilitating ensembles, or delivering school music programming.
• Experience working with early years, primary, or elementary-aged children.
• Strong musicianship, including voice, rhythm, basic music theory, performance, and at least one instrument.
• Ability to design inclusive, age-appropriate lessons for diverse learners.
• Experience preparing students for performances, assemblies, concerts, or school events.
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, inclusion, and professional boundaries.
• Strong English communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience in an international school, independent school, IB PYP, inquiry-based, Montessori, Reggio-inspired, or progressive education setting.
• Experience integrating music with inquiry-based or transdisciplinary learning.
• Experience leading choirs, instrumental groups, ensembles, music clubs, or extracurricular programs.
• Knowledge of Kenyan, African, and global music traditions.
• Ability to play piano, keyboard, guitar, percussion, or other classroom-friendly instruments.
• Experience with sound equipment, microphones, backing tracks, basic recording, or event production.
• Experience coordinating external instructors, vendors, artists, or performers.
• Familiarity with inclusive music education for diverse learners.

Core Competencies

• Music instruction: Designs engaging lessons that develop singing, rhythm, listening, theory, creativity, and performance skills.
• Child-centered pedagogy: Understands how young children learn through movement, repetition, play, imitation, exploration, and practice.
• Creative musicianship: Helps students compose, improvise, perform, listen, and respond with confidence.
• Cultural grounding: Integrates Kenyan, African, and global music respectfully and meaningfully.
• Performance leadership: Plans rehearsals and performances that are organized, joyful, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate.
• Curriculum collaboration: Works with teachers to connect music to broader learning and inquiry.
• Vendor coordination: Manages external instructors or music providers with clear expectations and safeguarding standards.
• Inclusion: Ensures every student can participate meaningfully, regardless of prior exposure, ability, confidence, or learning profile.
• Safeguarding judgment: Maintains professional boundaries and protects student safety and dignity.
• Founding-school mindset: Builds systems, traditions, routines, and culture in a new school environment.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Students experience music as joyful, rigorous, inclusive, and connected to their identities and communities.
• Early years and elementary students build confidence in singing, rhythm, movement, listening, instrumental exploration, and performance.
• Sankoré has a coherent, age-appropriate music curriculum that can grow over time.
• Choir, instrumental, and extracurricular music opportunities begin to take shape.
• Kenyan, African, and global music traditions are meaningfully embedded in student learning.
• Performances, assemblies, and showcases are well-organized, inclusive, and aligned with school values.
• Instruments, music resources, schedules, and production needs are well managed.
• External music vendors, if used, are safe, professional, reliable, and aligned with Sankoré’s standards.
• Music becomes a visible and valued part of Sankoré’s founding culture.

End Date June 9th  2026.

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Role Overview

• The PE Teacher and Sports Coordinator will lead physical education and sports programming for students at Sankore International School. Reporting to the Head of Teaching and Learning, this role combines direct PE teaching with the development of Sankore’s broader sports, movement, and extracurricular athletics program.
• The role will design inclusive, age-appropriate PE lessons, build foundational movement skills, coordinate after-school and extracurricular sports opportunities, manage external sports and activity vendors, and develop Sankore’s participation in fixtures, competitions, and partnerships with other schools. The primary PE and sports coach role should emphasize inclusive PE instruction, fundamental movement skills, confidence, teamwork, school competitions, sports clubs, and safe participation for all children.
• Because this is a learner-facing role, safeguarding is central. International school safeguarding guidance treats child protection as a whole-school responsibility and emphasizes safer recruitment, secure records, staff training, and vigilance across all adult roles working with children.

Core Responsibilities

Physical Education Teaching and Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging, inclusive PE lessons for students.
• Develop students’ fundamental movement skills, coordination, balance, strength, agility, spatial awareness, and confidence.
• Introduce students to age-appropriate games, athletics, movement activities, team sports, individual challenges, cooperative play, and fitness practices.
• Differentiate PE instruction for students with varied physical, developmental, language, sensory, and learning needs.
• Build a positive culture where all students can participate, improve, and experience joy in movement.

Sports Program Development

• Build Sankore’s foundational sports program as the school grows.
• Develop age-appropriate pathways from PE lessons to clubs, teams, friendly fixtures, and competitions.
• Identify priority sports and activities suited to Sankore’s facilities, student interests, staffing, and growth model in partnership with the Business Manager.
• Establish standards for training, participation, sportsmanship, safety, and student development.
• Create systems for team selection, practice schedules, attendance, equipment, permissions, transport coordination, and parent communication in partnership with the Business Manager.

Extracurricular Activities and Vendor Management

• Coordinate all extracurricular sports and movement-related vendors.
• Identify, vet, onboard, schedule, and supervise external providers in alignment with Sankore’s standards in partnership with the operations team.
• Ensure vendors follow safeguarding, child protection, safety, attendance, communication, and professional conduct expectations.
• Monitor quality of instruction and student experience across extracurricular offerings.
• Maintain records of vendor agreements, schedules, student participation, incidents, and feedback.
• Work with the Business Manager and school leadership on vendor budgets, procurement, and service quality.

Fixtures, Competitions, and Inter-School Coordination

• Identify appropriate competitions, leagues, festivals, friendly matches, and sports networks for early years and elementary students.
• Coordinate with other schools to arrange fixtures, shared events, and future competitive opportunities.
• Manage logistics for school participation, including schedules, permissions, transport, supervision, uniforms, equipment, and communication.
• Prepare students for competitions in ways that emphasize effort, teamwork, confidence, respect, and healthy competition.
• Represent Sankore professionally with peer schools, event organizers, families, and external partners.

Safeguarding, Safety, and Student Wellbeing

• Uphold Sankore’s safeguarding, child protection, and student wellbeing policies at all times.
• Maintain safe ratios, supervision, routines, and boundaries in PE, sports, changing areas, travel, fixtures, and extracurricular activities.
• Conduct basic risk assessments for PE lessons, sports events, vendor activities, equipment, and off-site participation.
• Respond appropriately to injuries, incidents, wellbeing concerns, or child protection concerns.
• Promote healthy attitudes toward bodies, ability, competition, effort, confidence, and inclusion.
• Ensure all students feel safe, respected, and able to participate.

Equipment, Facilities, and Operations

• Maintain PE and sports equipment, storage systems, inventories, and replacement plans.
• Set up and pack down spaces safely and efficiently for PE lessons, practices, events, and extracurricular activities.
• Monitor the condition of sports areas, play spaces, equipment, and related facilities.
• Coordinate with operations staff to ensure safe, clean, and ready-to-use physical activity spaces.
• Support procurement planning for sports equipment, uniforms, first-aid materials, and program growth.

Assessment, Documentation, and Communication

• Track student participation, progress, skill development, and engagement in PE and sports.
• Provide constructive feedback that supports confidence, effort, and improvement.
• Communicate clearly with teachers, families, leadership, vendors, and students.
• Maintain calendars, schedules, permission records, attendance lists, incident records, and sports program documentation.
• Contribute to reporting, showcases, family communication, and school events as needed.

Culture, Values, and Founding-School Contribution

• Model Sankore’s values of Consciousness, Curiosity, Courage, Continuous Growth, Creativity, and Community Care.
• Build a sports culture grounded in participation, respect, discipline, teamwork, and joy.
• Help establish traditions, routines, and expectations for athletics at Sankore.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, arts staff, operations staff, and leadership to support whole-child development.
• Contribute to a founding-school environment where adults build systems, solve problems, and care for students together.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, Sports Science, Education, Coaching, Kinesiology, Exercise Science, or a related field.
• Teaching qualification, coaching certification, or demonstrable experience teaching PE to children.
• At least 3 years of experience teaching PE, coaching school sports, or coordinating youth sports programming.
• Experience working with early years, primary, or elementary-aged children.
• Strong knowledge of child development, fundamental movement skills, safe physical activity, and inclusive PE practice.
• Experience organizing sports clubs, practices, fixtures, competitions, or extracurricular activities.
• Ability to manage schedules, vendors, equipment, communication, and logistics.
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, inclusion, and professional boundaries.
• Strong English communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience in an international school, independent school, IB PYP, inquiry-based, or progressive education setting.
• First aid, CPR, child safeguarding, lifeguarding, or sports safety certification.
• Experience managing external coaches, vendors, or after-school activity providers.
• Experience building a school sports program from an early stage.
• Experience coordinating inter-school fixtures, competitions, festivals, or leagues.
• Coaching experience in one or more age-appropriate sports such as football, athletics, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, netball, tennis, dance, or movement games.
• Experience supporting inclusive sports participation for diverse learners.

Core Competencies

• PE instruction: Designs safe, engaging, developmentally appropriate lessons that build movement, confidence, and wellbeing.
• Sports program leadership: Builds structured pathways from PE to clubs, teams, and competitions.
• Student-centered coaching: Develops skill, effort, sportsmanship, and resilience without overemphasizing performance at young ages.
• Vendor management: Selects, coordinates, supervises, and evaluates external providers effectively.
• Operational discipline: Manages schedules, equipment, permissions, records, logistics, and communication reliably.
• Safeguarding judgment: Maintains safe supervision, professional boundaries, and prompt escalation of concerns.
• Inclusion: Ensures all students can participate meaningfully, regardless of ability, confidence, or prior exposure to sport.
• Collaboration: Works well with teachers, families, school leaders, vendors, and peer schools.
• Communication: Gives clear instructions, communicates calmly, and builds trust with students and adults.
• Founding-school mindset: Brings flexibility, initiative, and systems-building discipline to a new school environment.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Students experience PE as safe, joyful, inclusive, and confidence-building.
• Early years and elementary students develop strong foundational movement skills.
• Sankore has a clear, age-appropriate sports program that can grow over time.
• Extracurricular sports vendors are well-managed, safe, reliable, and aligned with school values.
• Students begin participating in appropriate inter-school fixtures, festivals, and competitions.
• Families receive clear communication about sports activities, schedules, permissions, and expectations.
• Equipment, spaces, schedules, and records are well organized.
• Sankore develops a sports culture rooted in teamwork, discipline, courage, respect, and care.

End Date June 9th  2026.

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Role Overview

• The School Nurse will lead day-to-day health care, first aid, emergency response, health records, and wellness support for Sankore’s founding school community. This role is central to creating a safe, caring, and well-organized environment where scholars can learn with confidence and families can trust that health needs are managed with professionalism and discretion.
• The School Nurse will manage the school clinic, provide basic medical care to students and staff, support children with allergies, chronic conditions, and individual health needs, maintain accurate confidential records, and coordinate with families, staff, external providers, and emergency services when needed.
• As part of a founding team, the School Nurse will also help build Sankore’s health systems from the ground up, including clinic protocols, medication procedures, immunization tracking, health and safety routines, referral pathways, and preventive health education.

Core Responsibilities

Student Health Care and First Aid

• Provide first aid, basic medical care, and initial assessment for students and staff during school hours.
• Respond calmly and effectively to injuries, illness, accidents, and medical emergencies.
• Assess when a student can return to class, requires rest, needs family contact, or should be referred for further medical care.
• Administer prescribed medication in line with school policy, parental consent, and professional nursing standards.
• Support students with allergies, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and other chronic or ongoing health needs.

Clinic Management and Medical Readiness

• Set up, maintain, and manage the school clinic as a clean, safe, child-friendly, and well-equipped space.
• Maintain appropriate first aid supplies, medication storage, emergency equipment, and clinic inventory.
• Develop and follow protocols for injury response, illness management, medication administration, infection prevention, and referrals.
• Ensure health equipment and supplies are stored, monitored, and replenished appropriately.
• Support health readiness for school trips, sports, events, and other off-site or higher-risk activities.

Health Records, Confidentiality, and Compliance

• Maintain accurate, confidential, and up-to-date student health records.
• Track medical histories, allergies, chronic conditions, medication permissions, emergency contacts, and care plans.
• Monitor immunization documentation in line with Ministry of Health expectations and school requirements.
• Prepare appropriate reports for school leadership while protecting student confidentiality.
• Ensure clinic documentation supports continuity of care, safeguarding, compliance, and responsible decision-making.

Emergency Response and Health and Safety

• Serve as a key responder during medical incidents, accidents, drills, and emergencies.
• Coordinate with the Business Manager and school leadership on health, safety, and risk management.
• Liaise with nearby health facilities, ambulance providers, and emergency services when escalation is required.
• Support development and implementation of emergency medical protocols.
• Participate in health and safety audits, risk assessments, evacuation drills, and incident reviews.

Safeguarding, Child Protection, and Student Wellbeing

• Uphold Sankore’s safeguarding and child protection policies at all times.
• Identify and report health-related concerns that may indicate neglect, abuse, emotional distress, or other safeguarding risks.
• Work closely with school leadership, teachers, and relevant staff to support students’ physical, emotional, and developmental wellbeing.
• Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and child-centered practice.
• Help ensure that every student feels treated with dignity, care, and respect.

Family, Staff, and Community Partnership

• Communicate clearly and respectfully with families about student health concerns, incidents, medication, follow-up care, and preventive health needs.
• Partner with teachers and staff so they understand relevant student health plans and emergency procedures.
• Provide practical guidance to staff on first aid response, hygiene, infection prevention, and health-related classroom considerations.
• Support family engagement around wellness, nutrition, hygiene, immunization, and child development.
• Build trust with families through professionalism, discretion, and consistent follow-through.

Health Promotion and Preventive Education

• Support school-wide wellness initiatives related to hygiene, nutrition, physical health, mental health, puberty education, infection prevention, and healthy routines.
• Contribute to age-appropriate health education in partnership with educators.
• Monitor patterns in student illness or injury and recommend preventive actions.
• Promote a culture of health, safety, and care across the school.
• Support public health preparedness, including communicable disease prevention and response.

Founding Systems and Continuous Improvement

• Help design Sankore’s clinic procedures, forms, logs, referral systems, and health communication templates.
• Recommend improvements to school health policies and operating routines.
• Use data from clinic visits, incidents, and health trends to strengthen prevention and response.
• Work with the Business Manager to ensure health systems are practical, compliant, and sustainable.
• Contribute to a founding team culture of learning, reflection, accountability, and care.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Diploma or degree in Nursing from a recognized institution.
• Current registration and valid practicing license with the Nursing Council of Kenya.
• 2–5 years of clinical nursing experience, preferably including experience in a school, pediatric, family health, emergency, or community health setting.
• Current certification in First Aid and CPR; Basic Life Support certification strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of child health, common childhood illnesses, medication administration, infection prevention, and emergency response.
• Experience maintaining confidential health records and communicating with families.
• Fluency in English; Kiswahili strongly preferred.
• Commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, confidentiality, and child-centered care.

Preferred

• Prior experience in an international school, private school, pediatric clinic, or multicultural education environment.
• Experience supporting students with allergies, asthma, chronic conditions, neurodevelopmental needs, or individual health plans.
• Training in child protection, mental health first aid, public health, nutrition, or adolescent health.
• Familiarity with Ministry of Health expectations, immunization records, and school health protocols in Kenya.
• Experience setting up or improving clinic systems, health logs, medication procedures, or emergency protocols.

Core Competencies

• Clinical judgment: Assesses symptoms, injuries, and risks accurately and knows when to treat, monitor, refer, or escalate.
• Emergency readiness: Responds calmly, quickly, and professionally during urgent health incidents.
• Child-centered care: Builds trust with young learners and treats every child with dignity, patience, and respect.
• Confidentiality and ethics: Handles sensitive medical and family information with discretion and professionalism.
• Family communication: Explains health concerns clearly and respectfully to parents and guardians.
• Organization and documentation: Maintains accurate records, reliable systems, and orderly clinic operations.
• Safeguarding awareness: Recognizes and reports concerns appropriately while following school policy.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with teachers, operations staff, leadership, families, and external health providers.
• Preventive mindset: Uses health data, observation, and education to reduce risk and promote wellbeing.
• Founding-school adaptability: Builds systems, solves problems, and works flexibly in a growing school environment.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Sankore’s clinic is safe, well-stocked, organized, and ready to serve students and staff from the first day of school.
• Student health records, medication permissions, emergency contacts, and care plans are accurate and current.
• Medical incidents are handled calmly, documented properly, and communicated appropriately.
• Students with chronic conditions, allergies, or specific medical needs have clear care plans understood by relevant staff.
• Families experience the nurse as professional, responsive, discreet, and caring.
• Staff understand basic health procedures, emergency protocols, and when to refer students to the clinic.
• Health, hygiene, and safety routines are embedded into the daily life of the school.
• The School Nurse contributes to a founding culture where students feel seen, supported, and safe.

End Date June 9th  2026.

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Role Overview

• The ICT and Data Protection Associate will support the daily reliability, security, and effectiveness of Sankore’s digital infrastructure. Reporting to the Business Manager, the Associate will maintain school connectivity, support servers and devices, manage school applications and platforms, troubleshoot software and hardware issues, and help staff and learners use technology safely and effectively.
• This role also supports Sankore’s data protection and privacy responsibilities, including careful handling of student, family, staff, and operational data. Kenya’s Data Protection Act requires personal data to be processed lawfully, fairly, transparently, for explicit purposes, and with appropriate limits and safeguards. The role should also help embed safeguarding-aware digital practice, since international school safeguarding guidance treats child protection as a whole-school responsibility across all staff and systems.

Core Responsibilities

ICT Infrastructure and Connectivity

• Maintain reliable internet connectivity across classrooms, offices, learning spaces, and administrative areas.
• Monitor and troubleshoot networks, routers, access points, firewalls, switches, and related connectivity equipment.
• Support school servers, backups, shared drives, and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Coordinate with internet service providers, vendors, and technical contractors to resolve issues promptly.
• Maintain documentation of network architecture, credentials, licenses, warranties, and support contacts.

Devices, Hardware, and Technical Support

• Provide first-line ICT support to staff, learners, administrators, and school leadership.
• Set up, configure, maintain, and track laptops, tablets, printers, projectors, smart boards, phones, and other ICT assets.
• Manage device inventories, asset tagging, repair logs, replacement schedules, and safe disposal.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, connectivity, access, and user-account issues.
• Support ICT readiness for school events, assemblies, admissions activities, assessments, and staff meetings.

Applications, Platforms, and Software Administration

• Administer core school platforms, including email, productivity suites, learning platforms, student information systems, admissions tools, and finance or operations systems as assigned.
• Manage user accounts, permissions, password resets, onboarding, and offboarding.
• Support integration between platforms where appropriate, ensuring data quality and secure access.
• Train staff on effective use of school applications and digital tools.
• Maintain software licenses, renewals, version updates, and vendor support records.

Data Protection, Privacy, and Information Security

• Support compliance with Kenya’s Data Protection Act and related school policies.
• Help ensure student, family, staff, financial, health, and safeguarding-related data are handled securely and only for legitimate school purposes.
• Support secure access controls, data retention practices, backups, encryption, and incident reporting procedures.
• Assist with data protection impact assessments, consent records, privacy notices, and staff awareness.
• Work with the Business Manager and school leadership to maintain clear protocols for data collection, sharing, storage, and deletion.
• Support responsible management of data breaches or suspected breaches, escalating promptly and documenting actions.

Cybersecurity and Digital Safeguarding

• Help protect school systems from malware, phishing, unauthorized access, data loss, and inappropriate online content.
• Maintain antivirus tools, endpoint protection, software updates, secure Wi-Fi access, and user-permission protocols.
• Support child-safe digital learning environments, including appropriate filtering, monitoring, and responsible-use practices.
• Train staff and learners, as appropriate, on digital citizenship, cyber hygiene, password safety, and responsible technology use.
• Contribute to safeguarding-aligned ICT policies and ensure technology systems support student wellbeing.

Systems Development and Continuous Improvement

• Identify gaps in ICT systems and recommend practical improvements as the school grows.
• Develop simple user guides, standard operating procedures, checklists, and troubleshooting guides.
• Track recurring ICT issues and propose preventive solutions.
• Support procurement decisions by advising on fit-for-purpose technology, software, service providers, and maintenance needs.
• Help build scalable systems that can grow as Sankore expands grade by grade.

Collaboration, Service, and School Culture

• Work closely with the Business Manager, school leadership, teachers, operations staff, and external providers.
• Provide calm, timely, and service-minded support in a busy founding-school environment.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional judgment when handling sensitive information.
• Model Sankore’s values of Consciousness, Curiosity, Courage, Continuous Growth, Creativity, and Community Citizenship.
• Contribute to a school culture where technology enables joyful, rigorous, and safe learning.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• At least 2–4 years of relevant ICT support, systems administration, network support, or school technology experience.
• Strong working knowledge of networking, Wi-Fi management, hardware troubleshooting, cloud systems, user administration, and software support.
• Experience administering productivity platforms such as Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft 365, or equivalent systems.
• Familiarity with data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, or information governance requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple support requests, document solutions, and communicate clearly with non-technical users.
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, confidentiality, and ethical handling of sensitive information.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Experience working in a school, international school, nonprofit, or child-centered institution.
• Certification or training in one or more of the following: CompTIA A+/Network+/Security+, Microsoft, Google Workspace, Cisco, ITIL, cybersecurity, or data protection.
• Familiarity with Kenya’s Data Protection Act and Office of the Data Protection Commissioner guidance.
• Experience supporting student information systems, learning management systems, admissions platforms, or finance/operations software.
• Basic server administration, firewall management, cloud backup, or endpoint security experience.
• Ability to support staff training and digital literacy.

Core Competencies

• Technical problem-solving: Diagnoses ICT issues quickly and resolves them with practical, durable solutions.
• Systems thinking: Builds organized, scalable systems rather than relying on informal fixes.
• Data protection judgment: Understands that student, family, and staff data must be handled with care, restraint, and confidentiality.
• Service orientation: Supports staff and learners with patience, clarity, and respect.
• Cybersecurity awareness: Anticipates risk and promotes safe digital practice across the school.
• Documentation discipline: Keeps accurate records of assets, configurations, licenses, incidents, and procedures.
• Training and communication: Explains technical issues in accessible language and builds staff confidence.
• Integrity and discretion: Handles sensitive information and access privileges responsibly.
• Adaptability: Works effectively in a founding-school environment where systems are still being built.
• Commitment to mission: Sees technology as a tool for access, inclusion, safety, and learning.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Sankore’s internet, classroom technology, core platforms, and administrative systems are reliable and ready for daily school operations.
• Staff and learners receive timely, respectful, and effective ICT support.
• Devices, licenses, platforms, and technical assets are accurately tracked and maintained.
• User accounts, permissions, backups, and access controls are managed securely.
• The school has clear, practical ICT and data protection procedures from launch.
• Staff understand their responsibilities for safe technology use, privacy, and data handling.
• Sensitive student, family, staff, and operational information is protected through strong systems and careful practice.
• Technology supports teaching, learning, operations, safeguarding, and family engagement.

End Date June 9th  2026.

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Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy and Delivery

• Lead the strategy and implementation of all programs across all geographies, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with SHOFCO's organizational priorities
• Own delivery against SHOFCO's multi-year commitments across IIVC, YVE, and all program areas, ensuring that reported results are accurate and that targets are met or exceeded
• Work alongside the COO to identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks, risks, and operational challenges in real time
• Ensure ethical, accountable, and community-centered delivery across all sites, with safeguarding embedded in every intervention
• Scale the SUN organizing platform into new counties and communities while protecting the depth of trust and member ownership that makes it effective
• Convert community scale into influence: ensure SUN's 2 million members translate into a coordinated, credible advocacy force shaping policy, budgets, and service delivery at county and national level
• Build SHOFCO's policy and government-engagement capability so that programmatic evidence feeds directly into advocacy positions, with organized communities driving the conversation

Program Quality and Impact

• Establish and lead a culture of continuous improvement across all program areas
• Define and own clear performance metrics and outcomes for every program, tied directly to multi-year funder commitments and SHOFCO's strategic targets
• Use SHOFCO's MEL infrastructure (approximately 20,000 interviews per quarter, 15 large-scale surveys annually, research partnerships with Oxford, Busara, KEMRI, IDInsight, and others) to improve delivery approaches, not just report on them
• Lead regular performance reviews to assess progress, identify gaps, and drive concrete improvements
• Ensure that reported results meet the standards for accuracy and credibility that major funders including CIFF and the Mastercard Foundation require

Team Leadership and Management

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of program directors across Education, Gender, WASH, Health, and SUN
• Build strong leadership capacity within program teams, with clear accountability and ownership at every level of the organization
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and retention across a large, multi-site program workforce spanning 40 counties
• Foster a culture of ownership, execution, and learning across all teams
• Create clear structures for communication, decision-making, and escalation across geographies

Financial Management and Program Sustainability

• Oversee program budgets across a portfolio that currently includes two $60M flagship programs, in close partnership with Finance
• Ensure strong financial discipline, identifying variance early and managing resources efficiently across all geographies
• Provide accurate and timely reporting on program performance and financial status to funders, the board, and senior leadership
• Ensure programs are delivered in a financially sustainable and operationally efficient manner

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

• Own SHOFCO's MEL function, setting the standard for data quality, evidence generation, and accountability that a movement serving 2.5 million people requires
• Ensure robust systems for data collection, verification, and analysis, including baselines, results frameworks, data verification plans, and integrated reporting dashboards, so that reported results are accurate and defensible
• Translate data into insights that change how programs are designed and delivered, not only how they are reported to funders
• Strengthen systems for capturing and sharing learning across teams and geographies
• Ensure program outcomes are clearly documented and communicated to funders, partners, and government counterparts

Integration and Coordination

• Deepen coordination across program areas so that the person receiving services experiences SHOFCO as one integrated offer, not five separate programs
• Ensure alignment between program teams, operations, and other internal functions
• Support integrated, community-centered delivery approaches that treat the household, not the intervention, as the unit of change

Government Partnership and Funder Reporting

• Maintain strong working relationships with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, county water authorities, and other government counterparts whose systems SHOFCO programs operate within or alongside
• Provide the Advancement team with accurate, timely, and complete program data and evidence to support funder reporting and donor communications; the CPO is the source of the evidence, not the lead on its external presentation

The Person We're Looking For

• SHOFCO is looking for a deeply technical program strategist/operator who has built their career running complex, multi-sector delivery at scale in Kenya. This is a role defined by execution, financial discipline, and evidence rigour. Candidates whose primary strength is fundraising, external relations, or advocacy are unlikely to be the right fit.
• Minimum 10 years of senior experience in program management and delivery in East Africa, with a demonstrated track record managing complex, multi-sector programs at scale across multiple geographies; previous C-suite or equivalent senior leadership experience preferred
• Proven ability to manage large program budgets across multiple funders and reporting frameworks; hands-on experience overseeing budgets of comparable scale to IIVC and YVE (each approximately $60M) is a strong advantage
• Technically proficient in monitoring, evaluation, and learning: experience designing and running rigorous MEL systems, including results frameworks, data verification plans, baselines, and reporting dashboards; must be comfortable interrogating data directly, not just receiving summaries
• Proven track record managing large, geographically dispersed teams with clear outcomes, accountability structures, and strong retention
• Deep knowledge of Kenya's government structures from national level through county and sub-county, and the ability to build operational partnerships with Ministry counterparts in Education, Health, and Water that support SHOFCO program delivery
• Experience working directly in Kenya's informal settlements or underserved rural communities; this is not a preference but a near-requirement for someone who will be accountable for programs running at community level across 40 counties
• Experience in community organizing, civic mobilization, or community-led service delivery is strongly preferred, given that SUN is both SHOFCO's largest program and its theory of change

End Date June 20th  2026.