SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEAD x 1

Location: Kasama,

JOB PURPOSE: Responsible for using PEAS’ approaches to support school leaders in government schools near PEAS schools to drive quality improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Support partner secondary schools to improve learning quality using PEAS’ tools and approaches.
• Quickly develop strong working relationships with non-PEAS primary school leaders in Government schools
• Work with school leaders to assess schools’ strengths and areas for improvement and provide feedback in a constructive manner.
• Support school leaders to develop School Improvement Plans (SIPs) with clear and achievable targets.
• Provide training and coaching to support school leaders to implement SIPs and drive improvement within the school, drawing on PEAS-tested tools and approaches.
• Regularly collect data from secondary schools and share with the PEAS Monitoring & Evaluation team to monitor progress.
• Use data to provide targeted support to schools that help them improve.
• Provide regular progress updates to the School Improvement Coordinator and contribute to reports when needed.

Support PEAS schools to become “centres of excellence”

• Work within a PEAS school’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to help drive improvement.
• Contribute to SLT plans for teacher training, including taking part in delivering teacher training, conducting observations and supporting peer observations and feedback.
• Provide constructive feedback to teachers to help them increase student learning.

Embody PEAS values.

• Act with the highest level of professional conduct, while working both in PEAS schools and with government schools
• Represent PEAS in government schools, promoting PEAS’ values.
• Prioritising students’ welfare, adhering to PEAS Child Protection and Adult Safeguarding Policies in all areas of work.

Who we are looking for

The ideal candidate

Has:

• Minimum of a degree from a recognised university (preferably Social Sciences, Education or Gender)
• Experience working in a school leadership position at a secondary or primary schools
• Experience and knowledge of how to support others to improve education outcomes
• Experience in delivering training and capacity building
• Experience working with complex stakeholder groups in rural low-income communities in Zambia

Can:

•  Consistently champion PEAS’ values,
•  Lead training sessions, tailoring the content for a range of different audiences (e.g., for school staff, staff who support schools, students)
•  Communicate clearly and concisely in both English and Bemba.
• Monitor progress and report against key data points
• Confidently use Microsoft Office and workplace technology (e.g., email) to remain in contact with the wider team.
•  Be comfortable working and planning to budgets.

Should be:

• Passionate about improving the life chances of all children through educational opportunities.
•  Able to quickly build working relationships and coach school leaders and teachers using strong interpersonal skills.
• Well-organised; able to perform multiple responsibilities to strict deadlines, following up with others in PEAS and in other schools for input and progress updates where necessary.
• Target-driven; comfortable with planning to targets and motivated to achieve them.
• Persistent; willing to go the distance to get things done well.
• Collaborative not competitive; working with peers in and across schools and different teams across the organisation and externally to achieve shared objectives.

Desirable criteria

• Experience working for/with international NGOs.
• In-depth knowledge of rural context in Zambia and community dynamics