Director Job Vacancy


Job Offering: The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research in Kenya (WISER Kenya) is looking for a volunteer in the position ofWISERBridge Director.

Position Details:

In return for your volunteer services the WISER program will provide to you the following benefits:
  • One round trip plane ticket from the country of origin to Nairobi
  • Stipend of $500/month
  • Emergency health/evacuation insurance, up to $700.
  • Secure housing at the WISER Compound (including a single, private room)
  • Basic Utilities (water) at the WISER Compound
  • Transport associated with the WISERBridge program
  • Opportunity to work with a well-established NGO in rural Kenya, WISER
  • Opportunity to work with other International NGOs and a welcoming community on Lake Victoria
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree; experience working with NGO’s in low resource settings desirable.  Experience with education reform, data analysis and cross-cultural competency valued. 

Deadline for applications: May 17, 2013; start date late June 2013

Background: 
 
WISER is a Kenyan NGO founded in 2006.  

WISER has established a strong community partnership in Muhuru Bay, Nyanza Province, where the organization has built a private secondary boarding school for girls that it operates in addition to other community programs focusing on education, health, and economic development.  

WISER’s mission is to improve educational, economic, and health outcomes for girls; create gender allies in boys; and promote community-wide enhancements in health and development.  

Roles and Responsibilities

The Director of WISERBridge is a crucial link between the students, teachers, parents, and administrators of the primary schools and to WISER. 

She/he must collaborate with each of these parties in order to ensure the success of the program. 

The WISERBridge Director must also utilize data measurement to determine the effectiveness of the program. 

Because of the multiple stakeholders of the program, the Director’s roles and responsibilities are divided as follows: 

1. Students
To ensure the students’ success in reaching their academic goals, the WISERBridge Director shall:
  • Provide opportunities for students to analyze their academic performance.
  • Create more opportunities for students to participate in high quality study and review for the KCPE exam.
  • Provide students with resources and tools to perform better in primary school.
  • Provide information to students about secondary school scholarships and opportunities.
2. Teachers

To ensure the teachers’ success in helping students reach their academic goals, the WISERBridge Director shall:
  • Organize the creation, vetting, copying and distribution of exams set to evaluate academic performance and determine student growth.
  • Organize, evaluate and present data to teachers that will help to inform their instruction.
  • Assist teachers in creating assessments and evaluating the results in order to inform instruction.
  • Provide resources for teachers to help remediate and differentiate for their students.
  • Provide best practices for teachers for professional development.
3. Parents

To ensure that parents are collaborative partners in the education process, the WISERBridge Director shall:
  • Encourage schools to collaborate with parents continually.
  • Provide resources and ideas for administration, teachers and students to collaborate with parents in reaching goals.
4.  Administrators

To ensure that administrators are collaborative partners in increasing academic outcomes, the WISERBridge Director shall:
  • Ensure constant communication with all the head teachers in order to ensure the management of WISERBridge at individual schools.
  • Provide administrators with the tools for managing WISERBridge at their individual schools.
5. Data Management
To ensure that data is properly managed and utilized, the WISERBridge Director shall collect and analyze data to:
  • Assist teachers in developing new teaching strategies
  • Assist students in understanding their strengths and weaknesses
  • Allow WISER to monitor and assess the impact of the WISERBridge program on girls’ academic outcomes compared to other school districts
  • Document successes and challenges in WISERBridge to share with donors.
6. Link to WISER

To ensure that WISERBridge remains connected to WISER, the WISERBridge Director shall:
  • Engage in all formal WISER activities whenever possible in order to remain connected to the school and mission of empowering women in the community; this includes attending and presenting at Local and National Board Meetings if requested, assisting in supplemental WISER projects, and consistently collaborating with the Executive Director of WISER to ensure the constant alignment of WISERBridge and WISER’s goals.
Additional Qualifications

The WISERBridge Director will be thoroughly committed to WISER’s mission.  

All candidates should have: ability to work in a team, follow instructions, emotional intelligence, leadership and relationship management experience. 

Ideally candidates have experience working in multicultural teams.  

Experience in East Africa, and especially Kenya, is preferred.

How to Apply: 
 
Candidates must apply by e-mail to sbrover@duke.eduno later than May 17, 2013. Use Microsoft Word format.  

Please send your resume/CV and a cover letter no longer than 2 pages expressing your reasons for interest in the position and examples of your commitment to work or programs similar to WISER’s mission.  

Note: Only complete applications including cover letter and CV/resume will be considered.

WISER will acknowledge your application upon receipt by e-mail and schedule in-person or phone interviews with selected candidates.