Training Facilitator
Availability: 1st February 2011
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level. We now have 25 schools in Kenya, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.
About this position
Bridge International Academies is urgently looking for a Training Facilitator to commence work by the 1st of February 2011.
Bridge International has developed an extremely detailed and rigorous instructional approach to enable a broad universe of potential teachers from local slum neighbourhoods to be extremely effective in the classroom. Our teachers come to us with a minimum of secondary school certificates, some with and some without previous teaching experience.
The Training Facilitator is responsible for facilitating and implementing an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers.
The Training Facilitator position requires a team player with initiative, problem solving skills and enthusiasm for teaching. Training occurs in a very fast-paced environment and requires a dedicated Training Facilitator.
This is a 6 month position, extendable fulltime to the right candidate.
Job Responsibilities
Availability: 1st February 2011
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level. We now have 25 schools in Kenya, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.
About this position
Bridge International Academies is urgently looking for a Training Facilitator to commence work by the 1st of February 2011.
Bridge International has developed an extremely detailed and rigorous instructional approach to enable a broad universe of potential teachers from local slum neighbourhoods to be extremely effective in the classroom. Our teachers come to us with a minimum of secondary school certificates, some with and some without previous teaching experience.
The Training Facilitator is responsible for facilitating and implementing an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers.
The Training Facilitator position requires a team player with initiative, problem solving skills and enthusiasm for teaching. Training occurs in a very fast-paced environment and requires a dedicated Training Facilitator.
This is a 6 month position, extendable fulltime to the right candidate.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide daily training and facilitation, according to detailed guidelines and session scripts created to train new teachers, who will work in challenging settings.
- Must be skillful in managing large groups of people (60-100 adult trainees).
- Document all trainee concerns, questions, accomplishments and outcomes on a lap top computer.
- Work with a team to make improvements to presentations
- Meet with senior trainers to share results and feedback from daily presentations.
- Manage a team of 2-4 conference assistants to oversee documentation of attendance, trainee test scores, and trainees’ participation scores for sessions.
- Record individual scores for trainees as they teach sample lessons in small groups.
- Visit schools and provide feedback to teachers, based on skills taught in training sessions.
Position Requirements:
- Must have experience facilitating training sessions, preferably for groups of 60 or more participants.
- Must have experience teaching or working in a school, preferably in a slum area.
- Strong computer skills, including Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, video and internet.
- Must demonstrate a high level of professionalism and integrity in speech and behaviour.
- Outgoing, energetic and friendly personality who is able to manage stress well.
- Experience using hands-on training methods such as large group discussion, modelling (demonstrating) how to use tools, small group discussion, observation and providing feedback using a rubric.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
- Must have excellent paper and computer organization skills.
- Must be comfortable giving and receiving feedback in order to improve performance.
- Prior experience training large groups (60+ people) over several weeks is a plus.
- Supervisory/management experience is a plus.
- A Bachelor’s degree is required.
How to apply
Click here to apply online
Deadline: 31 January 2011
Click here to apply online
Deadline: 31 January 2011
