Chief Operations Officer (Education) at The People Practice

Job Brief

• We are seeking to hire Chief Operations Officer (Education) to oversee the coordination and administration of their organisation’s educational interventions including planning, organising, leading, and controlling programme activities.
• This role drives the administration of all the organisation’s schools and scholarship initiatives.
• This includes identifying and profiling beneficiaries, conducting periodic verification exercises, preparing and updating relevant databases, sourcing potential sponsors, monitoring & evaluating beneficiaries, and effectively communicating with relevant stakeholders.

Responsibilities
Facilitate Control of the School:

• Supervise all teaching staff, rectify any flaws in the work-in-progress and facilitate necessary corrective measures.

Feedback/Effective Communication:

• Collaborate with educators to receive ideas, suggestions, and complaints, with regard to managerial decisions.
• Facilitate the process of receiving feedback from school leaders and educators to the administrative office.
• Manage the School Leaders and receive regular feedback from them.

Programme Development:

• Map and implement programs that would create opportunities for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) to learn in a fun-filled and interactive environment.
• Develop creative initiatives that will further the aims and objectives of the educational interventions of the Agency.
• Initiate partnerships with other NGOs, corporate bodies and government agencies, and develop proposals for strategic partnerships to sponsor the education of children in the programme.
• Devise a Standard Operating Procedure for establishing the organisation's Model.
• Arrange meetings for all beneficiaries and their caregivers at the end of each session.

Stakeholder Management:

• Organise Sponsor/Beneficiary Meet & Greet events to create opportunities for sponsors to interact with their beneficiaries.
• Promote community ownership and participatory development by creating a forum of caregivers and relevant stakeholders in the community.
• Organise bi-monthly meetings where all stakeholders can come together to discuss pertinent issues.
• Pioneer Open Day events to create opportunities for parents to interact with the school and their children’s teachers.
• Initiate programs aimed at empowering and educating caregivers.

Database Management:

• Devise and maintain a database of existing/new sponsors, volunteers, beneficiaries (students) and educators.

Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Partner with School Leaders and individual teachers to develop their teaching and learning practices.
• Conduct and document regular evaluations using standard Monitoring and Evaluation tools.
• Take charge of regular visits to assess all persons directly benefiting from the organisation’s educational interventions, and collate reports with recommendations and work plans.

Professional Development:

• Establish inspiring and innovative resources for teachers and students; encourage and promote peer sharing; undertake sit-in observations and provide developmental feedback to teachers.
• Devise an annual curriculum alignment and review session.
• Customise coaching activities that comply with the curriculum and recommend areas for improvement in teaching and learning.
• Actively encourage the use of Information Learning Technologies and ICT.
• Share observed best practices with the teaching staff across all schools, attend weekly meetings with the teachers to discuss progress and report findings to the Executive Director
• Keep up-to-date with developments in teachings and learning practices within the education sector.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a First Degree in Social Science or any Management Science discipline
• MBA or other related qualifications will be a huge plus.
• Minimum of 5 years in a similar role in the social development sector.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to facilitate diverse groups.
• Excellent negotiation and conflict-resolution skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
• A high level of written and spoken English.
• Demonstrable ability to work and represent views across different stakeholders.
• Experience in high-level coordination and chairing of meetings.
• Demonstrable understanding of international humanitarian response and coordination mechanisms.
• Experience in assessing Education Sector partners’ capacities to inform the development and rollout of capacity-building plans to improve the quality of the staff.

Skills:
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountability for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling organisations values.
• Holds colleagues accountable to deliver on their responsibilities.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
• Widely shares their personal vision for the organisation, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Stays approachable, listens and is easy to speak to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Takes disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.