Officer, Academics (North-West) at NewGlobe

About The Role

• The Academic Officer will ultimately be responsible for educational outcomes across schools in their assigned territory and will serve as an individual contributor, collaborator, and manager in this role.
• As an individual contributor, the Academic Officer will manage all academic events and initiatives for the territory.
• This will include the implementation of cyclical events (e.g., provision and maintenance of a school and academic calendar, daily and weekly timetables) and any new learning innovation launched throughout the academic year.

Job Summary

• As a collaborator, the Academic Officer will be responsible for coordinating with Shared Services, Instructional Design and Learning Innovation to ensure that all levers of achievement are robust and contextualized for the territory.
• Within the territory team, the Academic Officer will work with other departments to ensure that all schools have the right operational conditions for learning to take place.
• Finally, as a manager, the Academic Officer will ensure that members of the Academic team in the territory have a clear work plan and are productively working in tandem to generate achievement in schools.

What You Will Do

• The Academic Officer must be a data-driven individual with experience developing and managing cultures of high performance and high expectations. You must be a great academic leader who understands exceptional instruction and can motivate and support others in realizing a vision of academic excellence. Ideal candidates have worked in organizations with a proven track record of generating large learning gains.

In addition, the Academic Officer will:

• Lead execution and interdepartmental coordination of the core academic program in territory.
• Advocating for learning outcomes and serving as an in-territory academic consultant for other departments.
• Providing feedback to the Instructional Design team, to improve learning outcomes and culturally contextualize what is taught in your territory.
• Representing NewGlobe with key state stakeholders, including the Ministry of Education and other government education officials.
• Conducting necessary market and regulatory research to inform instructional systems and policies (timetable, teacher specialty configurations, retention policies, exam policy, placement policy).
• Managing the Academics team based in your territory: Programme Manager.
• The Academic Officer will report to the Schools Director and the Academic Director, Shared Services.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field, graduate degrees preferred.
• 2-4 years’ experience working in education.
• 2 or more years of teaching experience with evidence of outsized student learning gains is an added advantage.
• Experience working in the education sector.