Vacancies at Wisen HR Services

Job Summary: 

Responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the School’s core strategies in order to provide an excellent education to all learners who attend.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Instructional Leadership

• Lead the school’s vision, mission, and strategic goals to support high school-readiness and academic and socio-emotional success for all learners
• Establish rigorous academic goals and priorities that are systematically monitored for continuous improvement with all learner populations.
• Lead teachers in using a variety of formal and informal methods and assessments to measure learner growth and understanding and make necessary adjustments to drive improvement.

Plan and teach assigned subject areas

• Drive rapid and dramatic instructional improvements by implementing strategies in line with the priority areas identified in the School’s strategic plan
• Foster a shared commitment to high standards of teaching and learning with high expectations for achievement for all.
• Implement an observation and feedback cycle that ensures continuous improvement in teaching and learning
• Use multiple sources of evidence related to learner learning and school assessment results and growth data, to inform school goals and improve organizational performance, teacher effectiveness, and learner learning.
• Develop and implement a professional development plan to address identified areas of need
• Develop school calendar that offers built-in opportunities for staff to collaborate, plan instruction, and review learner data

Management and Operations

• Develop and execute effective plans, procedures, routines, and operational systems to address a full range of safety, health, and emotional and social needs of learners.
• Oversee the recruitment and hiring of diverse, highly-qualified staff;
• Strategically align people, time and money to drive learner achievement;
• Apply teacher and staff performance management systems in a way that ensures a culture of continuous improvement, support, and accountability;
• Provide professional development and training opportunities to help teachers adapt best practices based on reflection and data research.
• Implement a reward system for teachers’ positive reinforcement
• Support school-wide approach to promote collaboration as often and as feasibly and appropriately as possible.
• Oversee the operations of the school in partnership with management
• Develop a timeline with an action plan to create scheduled communication opportunities with families and community stakeholders about learning performance.
• Provide professional development for school teams to build a variety of conflict resolution strategies.
• Understand and comply with Kenyan laws & regulations and mandates, school policies and ethical guidelines.

Family and Community Engagement

• Create a culture of open communication, respect, and trust as the school and community develop a sense of collective responsibility for improving the learning of all learners.
• Actively ensure that all families are welcome members of the classroom and school community and can contribute to the classroom, school, and community’s effectiveness.
• Strengthen teacher and staff capacity to cultivate and sustain meaningful partnerships with families of diverse backgrounds and with community members that support learner achievement and learner well-being
• Manage partnerships.

Our transformational leaders:

• Are focused on results and have proven success in increasing learner achievement and adult performance;
• Influence and motivate others to reach their potential;
• Are solution-oriented and creative problem solvers with experience in data analysis and creating and managing systems;
• Set high expectations and communicate them to a variety of stakeholders;
• Understand, communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures;
• Continually reflect and seek feedback to improve their practice;
• Have demonstrated perseverance in their career and education;
• Thrive in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment; and
• Possess strong pedagogical skills and are highly effective at coaching other adults

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master’s degree from an accredited institution
• Experience as a school leader required
• Teaching experience
• Demonstrated experience in building a positive school culture
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in turning around a school highly preferred
• TSC licensed

Closing date: 30 June 2022

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Job Summary:

Responsible for ensuring that distributors/clients are properly billed for goods provided by collaborating with the sales team and depots. Ensure that the correct amounts are collected in a timely manner, verified and transactions recorded and account discrepancies are resolved. Performs other tasks to secure client payments. Collaborates with the sales team and depot managers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Record all cash, cheque and MPesa transactions made.
• Manage the recovery of debt/loans with distributors/customers by telephone
• Deliver excellent customer service through handling a range of customer enquiries by telephone and correspondence.
• Effectively and professionally handling enquiries from customers, whilst ensuring compliance with processes and attention to detail.
• Develop and monitor a credit control system in collaboration with sales, marketing, finance and company directors.
• Working closely with the depots to ensure proper debtor management 
• Establish policies that follow customer service best practices while ensuring customers submit payments on time.
• Check distributors/customer credit reports and communicate decisions to the CFO in a timely manner.
• Communicate payment plans and set loan terms and conditions with the customer
• Maintain debtor records, conduct regular analysis of the credit-control system and implement changes as needed to reduce bad debts.
• Report any payment issues to management.
• Identify and follow up on overdue invoices and payments and implement company collections procedures as necessary.
• Look for ways to improve debt collection processes.

Skills

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Degree in accounting, finance, business administration or any other related field
• Certified Credit Professional (CCP-K)
• Certified Public Accountant (K)
• More than 2 years experience in a similar position
• Proficient with industry-standard accounting software HansaWorld
• Working knowledge of database and spreadsheet software, such as MySQL and Excel
• Relevant experience using modern communication systems, including email and phone systems
• Expert-level experience using productivity tools, such as Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong communication skills and the ability to handle potential tense interactions with clients whilst displaying a friendly and confident manner
• Desire and ability to work collaboratively with others to accomplish daily goals
• Ability to communicate well with a diverse range of people.
• Ability to understand and translate complex information in order to give clear helpful explanations to customers.

Closing date: 25 May 2022