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NewGlobe Schools
VP/Director Instruction, East Africa
NewGlobe Schools is breaking new ground with its approach to addressing the dire need for high-quality primary education across Sub Saharan Africa. With an innovative schooling model that will raise the bar for education across the region, NewGlobe Schools has the potential to change the lives of millions of families struggling to make their way out of poverty. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level a dynamic educational social venture.
NewGlobe Schools is launching a large-scale franchise of extremely low-cost for-profit primary schools to provide access to affordable high-quality education for poor families across Sub Saharan Africa. Our approach addresses the critical problems facing education systems in many countries in the region: the lack of accountability and absence of incentives for improving performance and educational outcomes. Because of NewGlobe’s innovative model, we are able to cost-effectively deliver high-quality education. By charging only $3 per student per month, NewGlobe schools are affordable to those living under dollar per day poverty, while enabling local franchise owners to open and operate profitable school businesses, and maintain a financially viable business model at the central franchise level. NewGlobe is launching its franchise beginning in Sub Saharan Africa in 2008 and plans to rapidly scale the organization to serve more than 1 million families across the region.
NewGlobe’s founding team is led by a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record of providing innovative educational solutions and rapidly building and scaling extremely successful organizations; an entrepreneurial business leader with experience applying new approaches and technologies in Africa; and an acclaimed anthropologist with substantial experience working on-the-ground with international development initiatives. More information on NewGlobe’s founding team can be found
We are at heart an education venture, and you will be the expert and leader guiding the organization across a wide range of educational issues that will be critical to our ability to build a franchise of high-quality but low-cost schools, and deliver:
• a world-class teacher training program and most importantly, a hands-on, ongoing teacher support system in the field that will enable us to hire local teachers with minimum secondary school education, without previous teacher certification, and provide them with the training, skills and support needed to be highly effective in our classrooms
• a robust continual assessment program for frequent evaluation, intervention and remediation of all of our franchise schools
• a direct instruction curriculum supported by instructional materials, teacher guides, remediation and training
• a data-driven, highly research-based approach to managing schools and allocating constrained resources (including conducting high-quality research on our franchise schools and identifying, interpreting and applying appropriate high-quality external research)
This is an IDEAL job for an entrepreneurial superstar with 5+ years of educational expertise, especially in teacher training, curriculum & instruction, assessment and school management, who wants to be part of a founding team, take on a tremendous responsibility and have a huge impact on the lives of millions.
You will become part of our small, elite management team that will entirely be based in Sub Saharan Africa. This job will require you to relocate for a minimum three-year commitment. Since we are currently a start-up company, the VP/Director of Instruction, Research & Evaluation must be incredibly hands-on, and is initially expected to fill many of the on-the-ground roles of the whole department, including teacher training, curriculum and assessment development, school support, and others. Over time, you will lead the building and staffing of the department.
About You
• You are one of those rare multi-talented people who is both deeply creative and analytical.
• You bring with you deep and broad experience across many facets of the educational process in primary school, but, most importantly have demonstrated capacity to think way outside the box in identifying critical educational issues and developing non-traditional approaches to solve them.
• In particular you have experience designing and delivering
o high-quality teacher training curriculum, and ongoing professional development support
o continual assessment systems,
o curriculum, instructional materials, teacher guides & supplemental resources
• Ideally you have experience working with schools in the developing world, especially Africa, and in general are very comfortable with living and working in the developing world.
• You love data and believe that the educational process can be particularly data-rich. You are incredibly data-driven, analytical, and excited about developing an academic environment and processes in which high-quality data is regularly collected and used to manage and improve our franchise schools.
• You are not afraid of getting your hands dirty, and will thrive on the opportunity to initially both design and personally implement many of the training, systems and materials with actual teachers and students at our initial schools.
• You are comfortable and familiar with identifying, analyzing, interpreting and applying the results of appropriate high-quality educational research.
• You function well in a fast-paced informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
• Bachelors or Masters degree (education degree a plus)
Our team has a passionate belief that basic primary education is critical to the development of every child, family, community and nation. We believe that it is possible to address this critical need for poor families through new and innovative approaches leveraging the private sector, and that by providing low-cost but high-quality primary education, we will give millions of children the opportunity to accomplish their dreams. We are looking for people who want to join us in this rewarding task.
