Area Manager at First Excelsia

Job Description

The Area Manager (Learning and Development Officer) role at its heart is to ensure that every school is led by talented and passionate school leaders and teachers. 

Responsibility:

• Execute the support process for head teachers and teachers to ensure that we understand the current capacity and preparation of school staff and match training to their needs;
• Provide professional development to head teachers and teachers, ensuring that each of them has a renewed vision of their role as a changemaker in building the future of their community, state and nation; ensuring that each believes without doubt that every child can learn, and every teacher can succeed in ensuring learning for her class; and ensuring that every head teacher knows that the entire performance of the school is her responsibility.
• Prepare and support great head teachers and teachers by executing all training content during both training and in-school visits with fidelity, ensuring all school staff engage in rigorous and meaningful practice and providing thoughtful feedback and coaching.
• Continuously seek ways to improve professional development content, systems and processes by taking initiative and sharing feedback with the L&D team.
• The measure of your success will be the learning outcomes delivered by teachers you trained and the overall performance of the group of head teachers you trained.

Requirement:

• A fundamental belief that great teachers are “made,” not born
• Teaching experience is highly valued.
• Experience in adult education or other adult training or professional development is highly valued by not mandatory.
• Agreement that a teacher’s performance is measurable by how the children in her classroom learn
• Agreement that what enables children to learn can be measured, and that those results should drive decisions in teacher and school leader training and management
• A belief that a strong and tested lesson plan that incorporates best practices improves a teacher’s foundational knowledge and classroom management skills
• Belief in systems and best practices should guide school management
• Belief that corporal punishment is not an effective disciplinary method
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage a large group of individuals
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to easily form relationships and influence and motivate others
• Flexibility and a strong work ethic
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Strong people management skills – holding adults to high expectations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint or a strong aptitude to learn new technology
• Desire to spend time in schools improving school leaders and teacher’s performance. This includes a willingness to travel in all weather at least 80% of the time.