Director, Schools at KwaraLEARN (Leading Education Achievement and Reform Now) in Ilorin East, Kwara

About the Position

The Director Schools is in charge of the results tracking of every school in the territory or programme. This comprises school management, academic programming, school programming, employees career advancement, legal adherence, and parent and public involvement in every school we assist. You possess the incredible duty for the combined dispatch of all our programming in each school, for each tutor, for each child. Therefore, your concentration on using data to enhance output, and constant mentoring to adjustment conduct, and thorough execution of core school programs is critical. The team you oversee is in schools each day, offering ongoing guidance, specific evaluation comments, and on-going group and personal development. You oversee one of the largest teams in the organization, guided by the site team of School Supervisors, that offer routine assist to each school. In this position, you also engage with all participants of the schools under your care, which includes government authorities, parents, and group groups as may be necessary, just as your school supervisors do in the group of each school.  Instructional executive guidance is a core part of your remit, making sure that school key stakeholders and teachers are supplying on our promise to guarantee each child possesses the avenue to learn, which only happens when each tutor uses the right materials at the right time each day, listening and responding to students’ learning, and is helped by the school leader in this practice routine.  Your position is the nexus of all that we do, making sure the execution and outcomes of our entire programing.  Using big data that delivers visibility into everyday training procedures and school management, you collaborate with your direct supervisory employees to enhance effectiveness of each school – with the objective of student effectiveness and character development in mind, in addition to each school’s financial long-term viability – and offer input on core programming to our design teams.  This team is laser attentive on results, inherently cooperative in nature, loves nurturing executive guidance in others, is unwaveringly dedicated to making sure a quality education for our pupils, and is excited about producing incredible learning interventions that lead positive conduct and mentality adjustment in adults. You will flourish on this team if you are: a team player, hyper-attentive on outcomes, adaptable in a fast-paced environment, and possess fun while operating hard. This position documentation to the Corporate head and VP Schools.

What You Will Do

• Be in charge of the success of schools in your territory. Success is defined by (i) delivering superiority in all School Management indicators, (ii) meeting or exceeding driven learning result targets, (iii) building an environment that fosters group and parent relation. 
• Ensure each Manager supplies on their monitoring of schools and individual KPIs. Their schools should supply the promise of learning and comprehensive development for children, and possess a robust and top-performing cohort of teachers;
• Be in charge of the management of direct status updates lines with Regional Managers (to whom School Supervisors documentation), L&D Manager, and Academic Manager
• Use data from various suppliers to guarantee that academic programming - offerings, lesson quality, tutor assist, learning creative invention, etc. - throughout the year is strong, aligns with governance policies, is contextualised to the territory, and directs to outsized learning results for all pupils.
• Use data from various suppliers to guarantee Regional Managers, Supervisors are productively coordinating their schools, and producing safe learning environments.
• Be in schools 20% time, observing training, observing management, and interacting with participants, which includes government authorities, parents, and group groups.
• When observing or holding sessions, use rubrics or other documents to assist organized observation and status updates.
• Assist specific school events, which includes partnering on programming for such events as school opening celebrations, parent tutor professional forums and school closing celebrations, in addition to group exhibits and involvement in co-curricular contests.
• Ensure school power and assist registration endeavors are accomplished. 
• Ensure local compliance-related methods are followed, which includes ecological & community-related guidelines, in addition to national rules. 
• Ensure school employees and students are readied to sit in government-proctored exams, as they may occur on a termly/semester basis, and with particular attention to national examinations. 
• Make sure that executive guidance & development sessions are fulfilled to schools during the course of the school year, and during induction development for new employees. Supervisors should use the materials and programming conceptualize by the Executive guidance & Development team. 
• Collaborate with the Executive guidance & Development team to offer, coordinate on-going career advancement for Supervisors
• Assist schools through transition of employees, which includes school key stakeholders and teachers; collaborate with local government and other local entities as needed.
• Ensure school key stakeholders are actively building a pipeline of school employees applicants, leveraging parents, local government executive guidance and other local entities.
• Ensure schools are operating directly with county or regional government executive guidance, tutor development centers or regional entities to assist procurement applicants for school employees. 
• Manager financial plan and optimization, prevent fraud and ensure financial discipline among the Schools group.
• Other obligations as allocated.

What You Should Possess

• Undergraduate Academic qualification (or its equivalent) or MSC.
• Proven management and executive guidance expertise, top teams of people to achieve an goal.
• Demonstrated expertise coordinating site-based teams.
• Conviction in analytics-based strategic judgment.
• School leadership background a plus.
• Relentless concentration on accomplishment for yourself and others.
• Prejudice towards action.
• Adaptable and loves to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Cooperative leader with solid connection building competencies .
• Robust people skills.
• Clear expression competencies.