Chief Operations Officer (Education) Job at the People Practice
The People Practice - Our client is a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower disadvantaged children to thrive, grow and develop to their full potential.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Chief Operations Officer (Education)
Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Summary
- Our client is looking to hire a COO (Education) to oversee the coordination and administration of their organization’s educational interventions including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling program activities.
- This role drives the administration of all the organization’s schools and scholarship initiatives.
- This includes identifying and profiling beneficiaries, conducting periodic verification exercises, preparing and updating relevant databases, sourcing potential sponsors, monitoring & evaluating beneficiaries, and effectively communicating with relevant stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Facilitate Control of the School:
- Supervise all teaching staff, rectify any flaws in the work-in-progress and facilitate necessary corrective measures.
- Collaborate with educators to receive ideas, suggestions, and complaints, with regard to managerial decisions.
- Feedback / Effective Communication
- Facilitate the process of receiving feedback from school leaders and educators to the administrative office.
- Manage the School Leaders and receive regular feedback from them.
Programme Development:
- Map and implement programs that would create opportunities for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) to learn in a fun-filled and interactive environment.
- Initiate partnerships with other NGOs, corporate bodies and government agencies, and develop proposals for strategic partnerships to sponsor the education of children in the programme.
- Develop creative initiatives that will further the aims and objectives of the educational interventions of the Agency.
- Devise a Standard Operating Procedure for establishing the organisation's Model.
- Arrange meetings for all beneficiaries and their caregivers at the end of each session.
Stakeholder Management:
- Organise Sponsor/Beneficiary Meet & Greet events to create opportunities for sponsors to interact with their beneficiaries.
- Organise bi-monthly meetings where all stakeholders can come together to discuss pertinent issues.
- Pioneer Open Day events to create opportunities for parents to interact with the school and their children’s teachers.
- Promote community ownership and participatory development by creating a forum of caregivers and relevant stakeholders in the community.
- Initiate programs aimed at empowering and educating caregivers.
Database Management:
- Devise and maintain a database of existing/new sponsors, volunteers, beneficiaries (students) and educators.
Monitoring & Evaluation:
- Partner with School Leaders and individual teachers to develop their teaching and learning practices.
- Conduct and document regular evaluations using standard Monitoring and Evaluation tools.
- Take charge of regular visits to assess all persons directly benefiting from the organisation’s educational interventions, and collate reports with recommendations and work plans.
Professional Development:
- Establish inspiring and innovative resources for teachers and students; encourage and promote peer sharing; undertake sit-in observations and provide developmental feedback to teachers.
- Actively encourage the use of Information Learning Technologies and ICT.
- Share observed best practices with the teaching staff across all schools, attend weekly meetings with the teachers to discuss progress and report findings to the Executive Director
- Devise an annual curriculum alignment and review session.
- Customise coaching activities that comply with the curriculum and recommend areas for improvement in teaching and learning.
- Keep up-to-date with developments in teachings and learning practices within the education sector.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a First Degree in Social Science or any Management Science discipline
- Minimum of 5 years in a similar role in the social development sector.
- MBA or other related qualifications will be a huge plus.
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
- A high level of written and spoken English.
- Demonstrable ability to work and represent views across different stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to facilitate diverse groups.
- Excellent negotiation and conflict-resolution skills
- Experience in high-level coordination and chairing of meetings.
- Demonstrable understanding of international humanitarian response and coordination mechanisms.
- Experience in assessing Education Sector partners’ capacities to inform the development and rollout of capacity-building plans to improve the quality of the staff.
More on Skills:
Accountability
- Holds self-accountability for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, and achieving and role modeling organizations values.
- Holds colleagues accountable to deliver on their responsibilities.
Ambition
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
- Widely shares their personal vision for the organization, engages and motivates others
- Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
- Values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength.
- Stays approachable, listens and is easy to speak to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Takes disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.
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