Manager, Leadership & Development at NewGlobe Full Time

Job Title: Manager, Leadership & Development

Location: Dutse, Jigawa

Leadership and Development

• In joining the Leadership & Development (L&D) team you are joining the team charged with the holistic development of our school staff.
• We ensure that our front-line staff are exceptional leaders who are in turn, energized and empowered to provide the students in their communities and classrooms with a life-changing education.
• The L&D team ensures that each school we support is staffed with talented and passionate teachers and school leaders who will dedicate themselves to the development and learning of each child in their care.
• Leadership & Development ensures all school staff are fully aware of the principles that guide our Schools Group and Academics, including but not limited to school management practices and policies, theory of instructional design and structured pedagogy, core subject content knowledge, importance of a positive learning environment, classroom management techniques, use of technology for teaching and school management, need for parent communication and involvement, and regulatory or government engagement.
• We are responsible for both induction training of school staff new to the schools or programs we support, as well as for ongoing professional development throughout the school year.
• We use data from our school staff’s performance and student learning to drive the design of our induction and ongoing professional development, for both the year ahead and for real-time interventions in school management or teachers’ practice by the Schools Group.
• We also support data-driven analysis of teacher and school leader performance.
• We know we have succeeded when each teacher and each school is delivering on the promise of every child’s learning.

About the Role

• Delivery excellence, integrity, quality, and systematization are all part of ensuring successful implementation of induction training and ongoing professional development.
• Content design and personalization:
  • The L&D Manager will be responsible for designing and coordinating with Shared Services L&D on the content of induction training and ongoing scheduled professional development modules.
  • In addition, the L&D Manager will work directly with the Schools Director to use performance and behavioral data of school leaders and teachers to smartly deliver time-sensitive “refresher” training on core modules and custom-designed content for Supervisors of schools to use in school-based training and coaching.
• Training execution and project management:
  • The L&D Manager will project manage all residential induction training sessions for school staff.
  • This is a complex role – managing 50+ support office staff to lead induction training for 1500-2000 teachers and school leaders.
  • It is your job to train, mentor, and evaluate every person leading a training classroom each step of the way, ensuring that they achieve ambitious outcomes with our school leaders and teachers.
  • The importance of the success of this training cannot be understated — it is the foundation for the success of all of our programming, by ensuring that each teacher and school leader leaves training with a new vision for their school and classroom, new practices for classroom management, new understanding of structured pedagogy and its use, and knowledge of critical school management practices.
  • This role reports to the Schools Director.

What You Will Do:

• Design effective program-specific training content that meets the needs of the program.
• Lead school leader and teacher induction training and ongoing professional development efforts for your territory; ensure all induction training graduates and current school staff are world-class school leaders and teachers, prepared to succeed in supported classrooms and schools, passionate and motivated to deliver for each child.
• Use big data on academics, school management, and community engagement to identify areas for further professional development, and continuously improve training quality and efficacy.
• Investigate academic, school management and community engagement trends through the year to inform training content and delivery, and advise ongoing school field visits led by School Management, Schools Group.
• Collaborate with L&D Shared Services to ensure that all content for induction training and professional development efforts are effective; coordinate across teams to ensure that content is up to date and accurate — this is a complex and critical process.
• Develop, coach, and mentor a deeply skilled and mission-aligned team of Supervisors, School Management who will support L&D on the execution of large-scale induction training and ongoing professional development.
• Lead professional development, including onboarding and ongoing support for Supervisors, School Management in collaboration with L&D Shared Services, using core programming and data from school performance.
• Be a world-class project manager ensuring high-quality delivery, continuous improvement and transparency for the execution of induction training and professional development programs in your territory.
• Work closely with the Administration, People Operations, Technology, and other teams to ensure seamless user experience for teachers and school leaders during induction training and professional development.

What You Should Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education or related field
• Experience designing training materials for adult learners
• Two or more years of teaching experience is desirable.
• Prior experience in teacher training would be a bonus.
• Exceptional organization, project and people management skills.
• Prior experience in having led and managed teams would be a plus
• A data-driven, evidence-based mindset.
• Comfort in collecting and analyzing data to inform decisions is integral to this role
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and G-suite
• Willingness to travel across territories as per the business needs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational, leadership, analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

You’re also:
A detailed doer:

• You have a track record of getting things done.
• You’re organized and responsive.
• You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done.
• You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details.
• Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.

A creative problem-solver:

• Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges.
• On top of that, NewGlobe works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems.
• You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.

A relentless advocate:

• The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind.
• You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future).
• You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like.
• Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.

A malleable learner:

• You believe you can always do better.
• You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others.
• You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.

A data-driven decision-maker:

• When making decisions, you don’t rely on your intuition alone.
• You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications.

A curious investigator:

• You ask why a lot.
• You don’t just take what you see and accept it.
• You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different.
• You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.

How Your Success Will Be Measured
Your success in the role will be measured by training deliverables:

• 100% of trainings are on-time, on-budget, and in line with the strategic direction set by your program’s Schools Director (management scope and sequence).
• 90% training mastery for every training, as measured by assessments administered during training

You are also responsible for ensuring that you drive learning in schools after training has concluded:

• Teachers in schools are able to complete 90% of assigned lessons
• Teachers take attendance for their pupils 90% of the time
• Supervisors, School Management visit 90% of scheduled school visits to drive pupil learning and support teachers and school leaders.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2024.