Job Title: School Principal
Job Code: SP/SP/150807
Number of Positions Open: 1
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Summary: Our client is looking for a superstar educational leader to be the head of their first school. The Principle will play the leading role in ensuring their vision translates into impact on lives of individual students.
He or She will run daily operations, manage and develop a team of exceptional teachers, and constantly improve every detail of our client’s model to ensure they deliver learning outcomes equal to the best schools in the world.
This is an opportunity to create a unique new school model that will grow the future leaders of communities and companies across Kenya and Africa.
They are looking for an exceptional individual to combine their unique, world-class approach to learning with airtight operations to lead a truly exceptional first school.
The most successful education leaders around the world emphasize that the results of the first school is the most important success factor for any new vision. You will be responsible for those results, working intensively with teachers and others on the team to constantly improve student learning and joy in the experience.
As the School Leader you will be a crucial member of the founding team shaping our vision and will report directly to the CEO.
You will drive the execution the most important priority of our ambitious vision: delivering an amazing learning experience that transforms the way students think and act.
Your work will be accordingly diverse and challenging. You will constantly support teachers so they are constantly improving towards our goal of setting a new standard for great teaching in the region.
You will ensure that all operations, from strategic use of available budget to details such as quality food and facilities maintenance, are seamless so that teachers and students are able to focus all their energy on learning.
And you will constantly seek ways to further innovate our learning and operational design to achieve greater impact at lower cost.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and constantly growing an exceptional culture throughout the school so that students and staff love arriving in the morning and feel constantly challenged and engaged;
- Building strong relationships with the parents of all students in the school and managing all issues and concerns they may raise;
- Building a team of exceptional teachers and support staff and supporting their constant development through frequent observation and feedback;
- Managing and improving a career development system for your teachers and staff so that they quickly grow to become the leaders of our new schools;
- Continuously reviewing data on students’ learning outcomes and experience and working with the team to design and implement necessary improvements;
- Constantly observing learning methods in the classroom and working with the Director of Academics to design innovative new solutions;
- Tightly managing the budget for school operations by constantly finding creative opportunities to deliver high quality at lower cost;
- Managing systems for efficient management of all operational and administrative issues from security to food to transport;
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- You have at least 8-10 years of work experience including significant time working within or with high-performing education institutions (you do not need to have been a teacher or school leader, though it is plus).
- You have an inclusive and results-oriented leadership style. You rapidly achieve big goals by inspiring, consulting and supporting your team, not through command and control.
- You believe most education is fundamentally broken and are passionate about building a new model that challenges most of the common assumptions about schooling and teaching.
- You know how to thrive in highly demand, hyper-growth situations; you have probably worked at a successful and rapidly scaling organization
- You love building things, you sweat the small stuff, and you take pleasure in excellence more than credit or status
- Our culture resonates deeply with your values—and in particular, you are excited to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and frequent feedback
- You are always putting yourself in other people’s shoes—your natural empathy, curiosity, and people-reading skills help you understand your team and students/customers better than most people around you
- Your past supervisors have consistently perceived you as one of the rising stars in the organization
- You are skilled at drawing the most important conclusions from mountains of operational data and translating that learning into rapid improvement
How to Apply:
Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by clicking on: School Principal
Kindly include your current and expected remuneration in your resume.
Be advised, this job is open to Kenyan nationals only
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