Training Officer Job Vacancy – Bridge International Academies

Brief Description
The Training Officer is responsible for facilitating and implementing an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers.
The Training Officer 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 Officer.
Description: Training Officer
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 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 Officer is responsible for facilitating and implementing an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers. The Training Officer 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 Officer.
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 skilful 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.


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