Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)
PEAS (www.peas.org.uk) is a fast-growing charity with a mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered quality secondary education across Africa’. We run the fastest-growing network of sustainably financed secondary schools in Africa.
At PEAS, we are passionate about delivering quality education at a low cost, can educate the poorest rural communities in Zambia, and replicating our model across other communities. We work closely with the Zambian Ministry of General Education (MOGE) helping to achieve their national goals and have partnered with the MOGE to build an exemplary network of secondary schools in Zambia.
PEAS Zambia has achieved great things over the last 10 years, and we know we can achieve even more in the next 10 years. Building on the solid foundations of our programme, we want to grow in our secondary school network and beyond.
Our ambition is to be true exemplars of quality education and to drive improvements across the Zambian education system. We are now looking for a School Improvement Lead to join us on this exciting and challenging journey to make our ambition a reality.

Reports to: School Suport Officer
To provide effective, dynamic, and inspirational leadership in order to enable PEAS school to fulfill its agreed education outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
A.) Teaching and Learning
• Drives enrolment to ensure the school is full to capacity;
• Provides access to sustainably quality teaching and learning and accounts for teacher and student performance;
• Manages sustainability at the school through IGAs and cost-efficiency;
• Provides effective support and supervision to ensure improvement in student outcomes;
• Designs and implements strategies to promote quality education for every child;
• Constantly monitors classroom teaching and assessment data to inform how best to support students and uses this data to effectively engage learners and parents in the learning process.
B.) Education Management
• Drives high-performance expectations and positive school culture for the Deputy Headteacher and teachers to be effective and innovative;
• Promotes an atmosphere of caring and trust among PEAS staff, setting the tone for respectful interaction with students, and demonstrating a willingness to change practices in the light of new understandings;
• Establishes a school structure that promotes participative decision-making, supports delegation and distributive leadership, and encourages teacher decision-making autonomy along with the Head Teacher;
• Works toward whole-staff consensus on school priorities and communicates these to students and staff to establish a strong sense of overall purpose;
• Oversees all Education Targets and SIP reports to the Parent Organization and the Board;
• Ensures Performance management of Deputy Head Teacher, Teachers, and non-teaching staff.
C.) Leadership
• Develops and maintains active and productive relationships with PEAS central office, Region office, Board members (BoG), PTA School Staff, and Student Council;
• Leads the development of an annual School Improvement Plan and supports Deputy Head Teacher and other staff to realize SIP performance targets;
• Ensures schools are in compliance with all applicable PEAS and Ministry of General Education and other government regulations;
• Works with the core office finance department to develop and implement systems of checks and balances to measure operational efficiency;
• Ensures the school is in compliance with the school management contracts and receiving monthly financial school grants;
• Works with School Management and PEAS regional office on staff recruitment by identifying potential new teaching and non-teaching staff.
D.) Finance Management
• Ensures school sustainability through developing and managing the school budget strategically to achieve school objectives whilst ensuring value for money;
• Attracts income, from a variety of sources, including through maximizing school fee collection, so as to ensure that the PEAS school will become self-sustaining after the initial period without compromising Teaching and Learning;
• Co-signs all school accounts together with the Head Teacher;
• Accountable for all school management financial reports and data as specified from time to time by the PEAS core office and the RPM.
E.) School Infrastructure Development
• Supports all development projects and operations within the school;
• Establishes a Preventive Maintenance System and ensures a safe learning environment.
F.) Governance
• Works with the PEAS School Board of Governance, Parents Teachers Association, and the Head Teacher to develop strategies to initiate and meet aspirational school goals;
• Works together with the Community and develops training for BoG and other leadership structures;
• Assumes responsibility for all development reports to the Board and other agencies, and attends all Board meetings together with the Deputy Head Teacher.
G.) Community Engagement
• Works with the school management team to develop and execute community outreach plans to increase student enrolment and student populations in PEAS school;
• Works closely with the SSO to develop and implement community engagement plans and school advertising plans to promote a positive image of the school within the community;
• Develops and implements strategies to promote PEAS School’s mission to both the internal constituencies of the school and the community at large.
H.) Contribution to the PEAS Network
• Participates in the induction and orientation of new members in the PEAS ethos and culture;
• Takes initiative to share learnings and good practices with new PEAS school management teams;
• Establishes new links with external partners, and builds upon existing relationships, in order to promote PEAS schools’ model experience.
• Shares ideas with PEAS and non-Peas schools on the best practices
I.) Other assignments
Performs all other duties as may be assigned from time to time by SSO and other PEAS Leaders.

Professional Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:
• Masters/ Bachelor’s Degree in Education
• Teaching experience (minimum 3 years)
• Management experience in school (minimum of 2 years)
• Qualified teacher status, registered with the Teaching Council of Zambia
• Working experience in the education sector in Zambia with exposure preferably at a secondary level
• Knowledge of working with a wide range of students
• Top-level understanding of strategies for the improvement of teaching practices and learning outcomes
Desired Requirements:
• Post Graduate Training in Educational Administration, Curriculum Development, or a related field.
• Experience developing and enriching curriculum


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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