ECD Training Consultant
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 $5 per
child per month, enabling local Academy Managers to operate their school
businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the
central level. We now have almost 60 schools in Kenya, and plan to rapidly
scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.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.
About this position
Bridge International has developed an extremely detailed and rigorous training program to prepare new teachers from local slum neighborhoods to be extremely effective in the classroom.
The ECD Training Consultant will help us to determine the classroom management techniques needed for the training of new ECD teachers with a minimum of secondary school certificates, some with and some without previous teaching experience.
The ECD Training Consultant is responsible for analyzing the gaps in our classroom management training sessions provided to all of our teacher trainees and for developing multiple ECD classroom management training sessions that are aligned to the Bridge International curriculum.
Job Responsibilities
- Analyze
video clips of current ECD classrooms to determine current gaps in
classroom management.
- Review
current classroom management sessions used in training to identify
additional sessions needed specifically for ECD teachers.
- Develop
a detailed outline of ECD management sessions to put into training,
including best practices for implementation.
- Coordinate
with ECD curriculum team to ensure alignment of management and teaching
approaches.
- Must be
able to work within Bridge International’s highly structured system.
- Must
work well within a fast-paced team to meet high-pressure daily and weekly
deadlines.
About You
- Must
have at least 5 years experience teaching in, training or consulting for
ECD classrooms (Baby Class, Nursery or Pre-Unit).
- Must
have excellent organization and time management skills.
- Must be
extremely detail-oriented and able to balance multiple tasks at once.
- Strong
computer skills, including PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.
- Must
demonstrate a high level of professionalism and integrity.
- Outgoing,
energetic and friendly personality who is able to manage stress well.
- Excellent
oral and written communication skills required.
- Must be
comfortable receiving detailed feedback in order to improve performance.
- Must be
highly self-directed and highly motivated to excel.
- A
Bachelor’s degree is required.
In order
to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload
their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com