ABOUT THE ROLE:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Daily Hygiene and cleanliness of the kitchen and prep kitchen.
• Food Safety champion in the department by influencing and adhering to the applicable procedures.
• Meals preparations and service.
• Meals service to students and teammates including residence teammates meals service.
• Liaise between Dean of Students and School Nurse handling students with special dietary requirements as the food allergy policy.
• Meals feedback review and action.
• Conduct weekly workplace safety Inspections.
• Lead weekly teammates meetings.
• Verify Meals quantity served to students and teammates.
• Monitor weekly stock take of food service equipment.

ABOUT YOU:

Skills And Qualifications Required

• Certificate in Food production or equivalent certificate in Hospitality
• Valid Vaccination certificate
• Four years working experience in a school kitchen will be an added advantage
• Computer literate MS EXCEL,MS WORD
• You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• You are able to work well and meet strict deadlines with minimum supervision.
• You have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Key responsibilities for the role include:

Form 4’s post school success support

• Hold office hours for one on one consultations with students at least twice a week in each campus to discuss their career options, college / university applications and other post-school options.  Office hours would be 4:00pm-5:30pm- Monday-Friday. 
• Support students and families as they navigate the local university/college application process by fulfilling the following tasks and any other task/need arising from the process.
  • Guide students and school teams to complete the KUCCPS application process. 
  • Facilitate other local admission opportunities ahead of KCSE exams such as the Strathmore University entrance exam and USIU sports scouting, COVID protocols allowing. 
• Guide students to submit quality international applications within the stipulated deadlines. This could include reviewing organizing for standardized testing, personal statements, essays, checking their documents and other support as needed. 
  • Guide students and parents in the completion of financial aid applications like the CSS profile. 
  • Follow up with recommenders to ensure quality letters and other supporting documents are submitted on time. 
  • Facilitate submission of school documents needed to support applications like transcripts, school profile etc. 
  • Actively liaise with university representatives where students have applied to advocate for their applications and to provide other supporting information.
  • Manage admission offers and enquires on the Concourse Global platform liaising with Concourse representatives, students and parents as necessary. 
• Continuously connecting and partnering with our strong University partners such as African Leadership University, Strathmore, USIU, Ashesi University, Africa Leadership Academy etc.

b) Form 3’s post school success support

• Hold office hours to guide students on their career selection process, college/university lists and other alternative plans. 
• Hold Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday workshops on pathway classes for students based on their declared pathways and needed next steps. 
• Review students’ pathway selection providing them with feedback as necessary and transferring their options onto a database for tracking. 
• Where SATs are required, oversee provision of SAT prep. This includes but is not limited to sharing practise resources, issuing and grading mock tests and guiding students and parents to register for the exam. 

Data Management and Communication

• Using our internal database to update and track progress to goals.
•  Sending monthly process updates.
• Bimonthly meetings with the Director of Schools
• Ongoing communication with parents on students' progress in the post school success process. 
• Communicating and collaborating with School Leaders and Deans to schedule students time for post school success work and coordinate essay writing, recommendations, testing, etc

ABOUT YOU

Skills and Qualifications required:

• You have a minimum qualification of a Bachelor's Degree in Education Management, College Counselling, Psychology or other related courses.
• You have 3+ years experience in college counselling in a secondary school or in an after high school program.
• You are familiar with the international tertiary education space and have experience guiding students to apply to tertiary institutions abroad. 
• You are knowledgeable about various local tertiary education pathways. 
• You are conversant with research on the future of work and passionate to guide students to navigate their career choices. 
• You enjoy working with adolescents and youth and have a track record of building strong professional relationships with this age group for effective mentorship and guidance. 
• You are a strong communicator and enjoy building relationships across teams and organizations to meet your objectives. 
• You are a strategic thinker and a thought leader but you are also able to translate your ideas into action and execute on them.
• You have strong project management skills. You are able to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines and targets.
• You are a problem solver - you are proactive in identifying issues and address these thoroughly by making effort to find appropriate solutions.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Maintaining daily hygiene and cleanliness of the kitchen and prep kitchen.
• Championing food safety in the department.
• Assisting with food preparations.
• Serving meals to students and teammates.
• Collecting feedback from customers.
• Attending team meetings and training.
• Any other duty as assigned by the sous chef.
• Ensuring sink is always clean with clean dish rack

ABOUT YOU:

Skills and Qualifications required

• Form 4 certificate
• Certificate in Catering & Accommodation or Housekeeping
• You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• You are able to work well and meet strict deadlines with minimum supervision.
• You have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Work experience is preferred but not a must.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Maintaining daily hygiene and cleanliness of the kitchen and prep kitchen.
• Championing food safety in the department.
• Assisting with food preparations.
• Serving meals to students and teammates.
• Collecting feedback from customers.
• Attending team meetings and training.
• Any other duty as assigned by the sous chef.
• Ensuring sink is always clean with clean dish rack

ABOUT YOU:

Skills and Qualifications required

• Form 4 certificate
• Certificate in Catering & Accommodation or Housekeeping
• You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• You are able to work well and meet strict deadlines with minimum supervision.
• You have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Work experience is preferred but not a must.

About The Role

Key responsibilities for the role include:

Tech Asset Management and Team Professional Development

• Managing the check in and out process of all students and staff laptops and maintain an accurate inventory record of the school equipment
• Managing and tracking the IT/Tech assets while ensuring safe storage.
• Keeping an up to date inventory of the IT/Tech assets.
• Conducting teacher PD on tech assets termly.
• Ensure all teachers sign the asset management document and ensure safe storage of the paperwork.
• Collect classroom tech assets from class teachers at the end of every term.
• Attending teacher PD on a regular basis.
• Creating and running professional development experiences for teammates on tech.
• Run tech capacity building training sessions for different functions at the school (academic and non-academic) at least termly to enhance their job productivity.

Tech Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Ensuring the functionality of student and staff laptops by carrying out regular preventative maintenance, basic repairs and software configuration such as Microsoft Office, OS updates, etc. If the nature of a repair is outside of the tech coordinator's ability to repair, the tech coordinator will be responsible for liaising with an outside repair service to ensure the device is repaired.
• Performing weekly maintenance and set up checks of all centrally used tech resources in the school such as, but not limited to, laptops, extension cables, projectors, computer labs (if applicable), tablets in the RAZ Room (if applicable) and Library (if applicable) to ensure they are in perfect working condition.
• Receiving technicians from contract service providers as needed to carry out maintenance or repair tasks.
• Ensuring all classrooms are set up with functional classroom projectors, speakers and HDMI cables.
• Troubleshooting the classroom projectors, speakers, HDMI failures. Ensuring any such issues are resolved proactively and to constantly keep the affected stakeholders updated on the issues and progress made in resolving them.
• Troubleshooting all internet issues. Ensuring any such issues are resolved proactively and to constantly keep the affected stakeholders updated on the issues and progress made in resolving them.
• Troubleshooting all printer issues. Ensuring any such issues are resolved proactively and to constantly keep the affected stakeholders updated on the issues and progress made in resolving them.
• Troubleshooting all schools support tickets. Ensuring any such issues are resolved proactively and to constantly keep the affected stakeholders updated on the issues and progress made in resolving them.

Supporting Academics and Learning Programs

• Supporting teachers in running heavy computer/technology aided lessons.
• Running one computer based club or coordinating and liaising with vendors of tech-related clubs (Little Einsteins, Coding & innovation clubs)
• Conduct innovative sessions, potential sessions HTML/CSS and game development.
• Ensuring proper setup or software and hardware and helping facilitate all schools online testing platforms. Ex: NWEA, MAP
• Ensure proper set up of school programs and support teachers in managing learning programs: Example:mRAZ Kids, Exploration Tech, Mathletics, etc.
• Working with the Dean Development Lead to lead the schools generation of all learners' report card pdfs test versions and sharing with concerned teachers to enable them resolve any gaps before they are published to families at the end of each term.
• Support academic teams with Tech needs for school events - parent, student and teacher events (Microphone, PA system, etc.)

About You

Skills and Qualifications required:

• You have a diploma/degree in an IT related field
• You have a minimum of 2 years technical experience, experience in IT support is an added advantage.
• Experience working in a school will be an added advantage and highly desirable.
• You have a passion for a career in technology.
• You have proficient knowledge in computer networks and can troubleshoot network related issues.
• You are able to demonstrate competence and comfort with PC/Linux/Mac based computer systems.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Daily Hygiene and cleanliness of the kitchen and prep kitchen.
• Food Safety champion in the department by influencing and adhering to the applicable procedures.
• Meals preparations and service.
• Meals service to students and teammates including residence teammates meals service.
• Liaise between Dean of Students and School Nurse handling students with special dietary requirements as the food allergy policy.
• Meals feedback review and action.
• Conduct weekly workplace safety Inspections.
• Lead weekly teammates meetings.
• Verify Meals quantity served to students and teammates.
• Monitor weekly stock take of food service equipment.

ABOUT YOU:

Skills And Qualifications Required

• Certificate in Food production or equivalent certificate in Hospitality
• Valid Vaccination certificate
• Four years working experience in a school kitchen will be an added advantage
• Computer literate MS EXCEL,MS WORD
• You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• You are able to work well and meet strict deadlines with minimum supervision.
• You have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Key responsibilities for the role include: 

The Deputy School Principal, with the support of the School Principal and the Director of Schools, shall have responsibility for the following key areas:

Vision and Leadership

• Managing the execution of the daily operations of the school, and supporting all members of the community in meeting the mission, vision and instructional model of Nova Pioneer in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Crafting, articulate and executing on a compelling short- and long-term vision for the development of the school’s culture and program in partnership with the absence of the School Principal. 
• Establish and maintain an extremely strong and vibrant school culture consistent with Nova’s core culture principles in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Build and consistently grow an exceptional culture throughout the school so that students and staff love arriving in the morning and feel constantly challenged and engaged in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Build strong relationships with the parents of all students in the school and managing all issues and concerns they may raise in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Manage teaching and learning, and the academic outcomes of all learners in partnership with the Dean(s) of Instruction and Learning. 
• Manage the school leadership team, all teachers and support teammates using the Managing the Nova Pioneer Way framework in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Plan and support the implementation of Open Days, Academic events, community events, and parent-centered events in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Create and support marketing opportunities to grow enrollment and lessen attrition.
• Liaise and work collaboratively with other functions that support the school (Talent, Operations, Admissions and Marketing, Property, Collections and Finance)  in partnership with or in the absence of the School Principal. 
• Lead the teammate hiring processes for the school in partnership with the School Principal. 

Organisation and Administration skills

• Provide overall management of the school, including the planning and overseeing of the daily time tabling of classes in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Manage the execution of school activities aligned to the teacher duty schedules as well as morning, break time, and lunch supervision in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Support, maintain and action effective data management systems such as student records, teacher records, attendance, etc. in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Collect, analyze, share and interpret internal and external school assessment data and ensure that data is used strategically to improve student academic performance in partnership with the Dean of Instruction and Learning. 
• Oversee planning, execution and analysis of intervention programs targeted at needs of diverse academic subgroups, whether remedial or enrichment in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Implement systems for report cards, MAP results and reporting other grades to parents in partnership with the School Principal. 
• With the support of the Finance team,  manage the school and operational and staffing budget to 0% variance - ensuring school-based procurement is managed within the budget and at a high standard.

• Preside over the health and safety committee and ensure all health and safety procedures and protocols are implemented.

• Ensure Deans are managing clubs, competitions and other campus events in partnership with the School Principal. 
• With the support of the property and operations team, oversee the school facilities management - ensure campus health, safety and security, campus facilities and cleaning are up to the required standard.
• Ensure that campus-required hiring, people development and HR-related matters are closely managed and communicated to relevant teams.
• With the support of the Marketing team, take active leadership and ownership in the school's admissions process and enrollment efforts as well as student retention.

Teacher Development 

• Lead the coaching and development of other leaders in the school, including Deans and Grade Level leads to be exemplars in all aspects of the Nova Pioneer Model,  in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Leading Dean and teacher development to ensure a campus that displays exceptional inquiry instruction,  in partnership with the School Principal.  
• Leading Dean and teacher development to ensure a campus that excels in implementing data-driven instruction, in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Ensure the Deans oversee the attendance roster and roster of absent teachers and ensure effective teacher substitute plans as necessary, using on-campus teachers and calling on talent to support for long-term absences.
• Develop a school environment that is supportive of learning and high achievement among the students, in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Lead and support the monitoring and evaluation of teaching and learning across the school and contribute to school self-evaluation and the development of improvement plans,  in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Facilitate collaboration among teachers within/across grade levels and subject areas,  in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Create and manage appropriate and high-impact staff professional development,  in partnership with the School Principal. 

Communication  

• Develop and roll out effective communication systems with students, team, parents and the wider community, in collaboration with the external relations team, in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Communicate with students, staff and parents in a positive, friendly and professional manner,  in partnership with the School Principal. 
• Responsible for managing communication systems -Zen Desk, Newsletters, Class Dojo, Kid Connect, EdAdmin, etc. in partnership with the School Principal. 

ABOUT YOU

Skills and Qualifications required:

• You have a Bachelor's Degree and a Masters degree in Education Management/Administration is desirable. 
• You have your TSC number and certificate.
• You have at least five years teaching experience with a strong academic record
• You have 2+ years of experience in a rigorous, high-expectations school setting including instructional leadership roles (e.g., Dean of Instruction, Dean of Students, Deputy Head, teacher coach, etc.). More years of experience or experience as a Head of School is highly valued but not a prerequisite.
• You are widely recognised as a highly effective teacher and can model what great, inquiry-based teaching looks like.
• You consistently seek out opportunities to grow, whether by asking others for feedback, forming communities of learning with other school leaders, or seeking out training
• You have a track record of improving other people’s performance through coaching, building uncommonly strong relationships, developing creative training sessions and sharing feedback
• You are a great communicator. You are able to provide clear and effective written and verbal communication.
• You are flexible and open to change - you handle uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity well.
• You are a problem solver - you are proactive in identifying issues and address these thoroughly by making an effort to find appropriate solutions.
• You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will:

• Schedule meetings for the School Principal in line with their diary
• Facilitate the public relations function of the front office
• Prepare documents ahead of internal and external meetings as directed by the School Principal (photocopying, binding, filing etc.)
• Prepare documents for internal display on pin-boards or notice boards (brochures, posters, etc.)
• Keep custody of the students’ attendance registers and any confidential documents on behalf of the School Principal
• Maintain the school’s student roster (termly) and update it as necessary 

• Maintain The Principal’s Google calendar, scheduling meetings, calls, virtual/teleconferences, and attend to meeting logistics so that meetings are started on time with full participation
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders via telephone, in person and in writing through the drafting of letters, memorandums, reports, and emails
• Coordinate travel and accommodation for the School Principal
• Handle invoices and transportation requests for the School Principal
• Facilitate logistical arrangements for weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings
• Provide administrative services and take minutes for various meetings when required
• Receive guests and/or visitors for the Principal as well as any other visitors in the network office
• Assist in managing PTA communications and meetings
• Issue materials/stationery to team mates.
• Maintain and update the inventory tracker and raise stationery requisitions.
• In addition to these typical duties, may perform other duties as assigned and required
• Finding ways to improve administrative processes
• Prepare communications, such as memos, emails, invoices, reports and other correspondence
• Create and maintain filing systems, both electronic and physical

ABOUT YOU

• You have a Diploma or Degree in Office Administration and possess HR knowledge and skills.
• You have 2-3 years experience in Front Office Management, preferably of an established startup, large company, or a school
• You are experienced or open to learning the Google software suite (Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, G Mail, etc.) as well as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• You are experienced and proficient in MS Suite with strong writing skills (for office communication) and are skilled in making posters and certificates
• You have excellent organizational, planning and time management skills - you are able to handle many moving parts while maintaining high standards of excellence
• You demonstrate capacity to analyze complex situations and solve problems
• You are a great communicator. You are able to provide a clear and effective written and verbal communication to the leaders and school team
• You have an exceptional ability to think strategically and yet you sweat the small stuff—people see you as unusually detail-oriented and conscientious
• You have the ability to exercise discretion in handling sensitive matters
• You have a flexible and adaptable approach to work
• You are proactive and have an enthusiastic approach to work
• You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback