Chief Education Officer job at Building Tomorrow

Vacancy title:
Chief Education Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Education ]

Jobs at:

Building Tomorrow

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, July 31 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 17 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Key Responsibilities Of The Position Include
Educational Programming Strategy, Design, and Implementation
• Strengthen the vision, cohesion, and impact of Building Tomorrow’s educational programming to ensure it is effective, engaging, additive, and relevant
• Spearhead the innovation of Building Tomorrow’s unique educational programs to cultivate quality and inclusive programming
• Work with the Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning team to create routine reviews of educational programming, mapped against existing international and country-specific toolkits to ensure interventions are aligned and generate learnings
• Seek cost-effective solutions to achieve results at scale for as many children as possible
• Package and adapt Building Tomorrow’s education programming to meet the needs of various audiences and contexts around the world
• Implement a focused research agenda and stay ahead of relevant developments

Networking and Partnership Building
• Stay abreast of latest trends in education and participate in high-level policy and practice forums and share learnings and research with staff
• Keep abreast of the needs and priorities of Building Tomorrow’s educational programs to advocate for appropriate policy and practice shifts with donors, implementing partners, and government counterparts
• Demonstrate a deep appreciation for Building Tomorrow’s commitment to drive fundamental policy and practice changes that will ensure learners are gaining core foundational learning skills
• Participate in the strategic program discussions on program planning with line supervisor and lead discussions with program leads.

Leadership and Management
• Provide technical and operational support, with emphasis on results-based planning and management
• Proactively invest time and care in the support and mentorship of staff to ensure staff are trained on latest education trends
• Design and lead trainings aligned with Building Tomorrow’s pedagogy for staff, fellows, key stakeholders, and other implementing partners
• Embrace responsibility for the recruitment, engagement, and retention of a diverse team of qualified people to deliver superb technical assistance and thought leadership
• Routinely conduct field visits and share information with senior leaderships and relevant stakeholders within local and central government
• Dialogue to cultivate a strong and inclusive culture of performance and collaboration

Must Haves
• Experience in classroom teaching, a variety of both theoretical and practical approaches that are designed to meet the needs of all children is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing evidence-based educational programs, with a focus on promoting foundational learning
• Proven ability to scaffold curriculum and provide recommendations for remediation and enrichment based on performance and other feedback or experience in a startup environment, building something from nothing
• Fluency in the relevance and use of empirical evidence to know what works best to achieve meaningful literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional learning results.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to manage a team of education professionals.
• Experience in building and maintaining partnerships with government officials, NGOs, and other stakeholders in the education sector.
• First-rate communication skills (in English), both oral and written, with a keen attention to detail, including the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• Willingness and ability to travel significantly in sub-Saharan Africa, and occasionally outside the continent.

We Want You To Apply If…
• Have an unshakeable passion for education equality, believing access to an inclusive, quality education is a basic human right.
• Possess creative ingenuity, being progressive in your thinking and approaching challenges old and new. You are intrapreneurial and unafraid to pilot new ideas.
• Be relentlessly determined, refusing to accept the status quo, persistently striving to create new opportunities to reach more children, allowing them to reach their maximum potential.
• Believe in collaborative engagement. You believe more can be achieved together than alone, believe in the power of cultivating relationships, and see everyone as an equal partner.




Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Education/ Academic/ Teaching jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Monday, July 31 2023
Duty Station: Kampala
Posted: 17-07-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 17-07-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 17-07-2077
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