Computer Graphics Lecturer Job Vacancy

The Academy of Graphic Technologies Ltd

Urgent!

Applications are invited for the following position:

Computer Graphics Lecturer (Full-Time)
1 Post
Applicants must be graduates of IT / Design or its equivalent.

They must have a minimum of three (3) years working experience.

They must be familiar with the following adobe packages: - Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.

Familiarity with 3D Applications, Corel Draw and DreamWeaver will be an added advantage.

Applications should be addressed to the following:-

The Administration Manager
Academy of Graphic Technologies Ltd.
P.O. Box 18095- 00500
Nairobi.

Email: rhoda@agt.co.ke

Bridge International Academies Support Officers Job Vacancies

Job Opportunity:Support Officer

Location: Nairobi and other towns

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 have launched our first twenty-six schools in Kenya, have eleven more opening in September 2011 and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across Africa.

Description

About this position

We are seeking full-time Support Officer(s), who will help support and monitor the operations of a group of schools within our network.

Bridge International has developed extensive systems and tools for its operations that allow someone we hire from the local community to easily and successfully open and manage the operations of a school – we call this our “School in Box” model. Most of the systems and tools we developed are low-tech and paper-based because of the environment in which we work. It starts with our very detailed Operators Manual and spans across all instructional, financial, operations and human resource management issues and systems.

Support Officers work with a group of our schools (both the school managers and the teachers in those schools) to ensure that the management and monitoring systems and tools that are part of our “School in a Box” are effectively implemented at individual schools both by school managers and teachers. This position is also critical in providing feedback to the central headquarters as to ways to improve upon these systems.

Support Officers focus on all of the elements of the operations at the school site.

These include:

• Marketing & Recruiting New Students
• Student Payment Systems
• Monitoring instructional delivery by teachers (using guidelines and rubrics from our instruction team)
• Personnel Management
• Rules & Procedures
• Facilities Management
• And more

This is a very hands-on job, with the Support Officers spending time mainly in the field (in our case, the slums of Nairobi) working with schools about 80% of the time.

About You

• You are a very process or system-oriented person.
• You have experience implementing detailed systems, processes and rules in the field
• You have experience managing and helping grow one or more small businesses in challenging environments.
• You have proven that you are capable of motivating, supervising and supporting other managers, being supportive or tough when the situation is appropriate.
• You have successfully mentored individuals over a long period of time
• Experience in working in very poor communities (slums) is a real plus
• You are not afraid of getting your hands dirty
• You have experience managing projects with many moving pieces, and building and managing teams of people
• You function well in a fast-paced informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
• You are extremely patient and have the ability to mentor & lead people who come from disadvantaged communities
• Bachelors degree

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 someone who wants to join us in this rewarding task.

Requirements/Skills:

• 5+ years experience in operations, management, education or related experience
• Franchise or chain management experience in Kenya is a real plus
• Driven, disciplined, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be a team player and open to new approaches and ideas
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks
• Basic computer and web skills
• Ability to dig deeper into issues and pay attention to detail
• Being proactive in highlighting and addressing issues

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website atwww.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

Manager of Training Implementation Job Vacancy - Bridge International Academies

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a start-up for profit organization that is 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 have already launched the first 37 schools in our network in poor communities throughout Kenya with tremendous success, and will double the schools on a national level over the next quarter. The long-term plan is to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million families throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Description

Manage the implementation of multi-city, multi-location training programs for Teachers and School Managers at Bridge International Academies. You will monitor and evaluate facilitators who run the 7-week training program, and build an operations system to service several training programs simultaneously.

As the organization scales, your work will eventually develop hundreds of training programs across Africa that will train thousands of Teachers and School Managers.

About this position

Bridge International has developed an extensive Teacher and School Manager Training Institute for our new school-level staff. Candidates are recruited from the local community and then trained to become effective teachers and school managers in only 7 weeks.

Many of the trainees have no previous work experience in either teaching or school management. On the teacher side, the training focuses on the most practical areas that teachers will need to successfully guide a classroom.

For example, we focus on assessment tools, classroom management and discipline, and implementing scripted lesson plans, which are based on the Kenyan national curriculum.

In the school manager training, the focus is on training the manager how to use the automated, systemized tools ( Smart-phone based) to manage school staff and budgets, report student enrolment, and manage tuition payments. Training facilitators follow a handbook to deliver consistent lectures, discussions, practice lessons and exams. We call this our “Training in a Box” model.

Due to the standardization and systematizing, our approach is most similar to that of other large scale chains of service businesses, like McDonalds. Similar to a McDonalds, the success of our schools depends critically on the success of our Facilitators who provide the instruction and support our Teacher trainees require.

We are seeking a full-time Manager of Training Implementationto supervise the multi-city, multi-country training to ensure that our 7-week long training sessions are delivered with integrity, quality and systemization.

In the coming years, Bridge International Academies will be launching hundreds of new schools each year, requiring the supervision of dozens of new Training Managers and Facilitators as they train thousands of new staff. Because of this scale, it’s critical that we ensure our trainings are effective and standardized so as to deliver a training program that produces large numbers of competent, capable school-level staff.

This position will primarily focus on building a centralized team capable of implementing decentralized programs throughout the country. This position will manage the overall content integrity and training delivery of Teacher and School Manager trainings, which will take place on a termly basis at multiple locations on a national scale.

The content-specific sessions about how teaching and instruction, and operational management systems works at our schools will come from the trained Facilitators, who are working from scripted video and PowerPoint sessions.

More specifically, the role of the Manager of Training Implementation includes:

• Develop a training team (training and logistics) which can produce several, simultaneous 7- week training programs throughout Kenya. Using the manual and checklists from our “Training in a Box” to supervise a team of 10-20 Facilitators and oversee the work of the Conference Assistants during the Monday-Friday training.
• Through logistics management and coaching facilitators, ensure the highest quality output of training content. Quality of training content will be measured by performance of teachers and school managers in the schools.
• Assure the successful delivery of training sessions throughout the country, including hiring training staff, procuring supplies, confirming print production and delivery, and general training operations.
• Troubleshoot IT issues for Smart phone training and database problems.
• Hire, manage and/or coordinate with vendors such as guides, cooks, cleaners, security guards, landlords over various sites. Facilitate authorization of vendor payments.
• Coordinate training content with the internal content development team to assure fidelity of training delivery.
• Problem-solve attendance and M-PESA training system as it scales across multiple locations.
• Assure procurement of supplies for training sites and trouble-shoot problems as they arise.
• Secure real estate for the training sites, as needed
• Continue to revise and improve the facilitator training manual and materials.
• Use checklists during training sessions to ensure that Facilitators are successfully and accurately delivering the Training material
• Work closely with the Procurement, Logistics departments to ensure successful delivery of supplies and printing.
• Participant in developing a feedback and analysis of current Facilitators to assure quality consistency across trainings.
• This is a very hands-on job, both in terms of designing an operations system and implementing the training program. The role requires you to be out in the field at training sites and in the slums where the schools are located. Observation of Teachers and School Managers in the field is required at least 5% of the time.

About You

• You have 5 years’ experience designing and implementing site operations that focus on knowledge transfer and specific skill building for a particular role or job in any industry
• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
• You have experience operating large-scale, multi-site simultaneous sessions in a fast-paced environment.
• You have experience creating and managing large teams working in remote locations.
• You have an analytical orientation and can design processes and procedures to build an operations system that can be quickly brought to scale.
• You are a proactive trouble-shooter and problem-solver, capable of improving the training operations on the fly and at scale.
• You have experience in identifying performance issues with staff and quickly rectifying it to improve the overall operations.
• You function well in a fast-paced informal environment with competing deadlines
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and quickly changing environments
• You have experience in delivering complex trainings to individuals with less formal education and work history, different educational backgrounds, skills levels and economic status.
• You are results-oriented and a “can do attitude” to do what it takes to get the job done.
• You are a fantastic communicator and a team player and can strike an instant rapport with people from all different walks of life and background (the trainees often live in the poor communities that we serve)
• You are comfortable with building a team and regularly communicating progress, success, and challenges to them.

Other Requirements/Skills:

• Ability to evaluate facilitators’ skills and provide effective guidance for immediate improvement
• Computer skills including MS Office, database experience is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be a team player and open to new approaches and ideas
• Strong mentoring, auditing and reporting skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks and deadlines

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website atwww.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

Project Manager Job Vacancy in Kenya - NO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE (Monthly Salary: KShs 55,000)

NO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE is a coalition of professional women working to bring rape prevention strategies to the far reaches of the world.

In Kenya, we are based in Korogocho.

We are expanding our outreach to five more vulnerable areas in Nairobi and are looking for a brilliant feminist leader Project Manager with a pioneering vision for women and passion for Gender Based Violence Initiatives.

The Project manager will:

• Supervise Teams of Self Defense Instructors’ in 6 slums in Nairobi
• Create and maintain annual budgets.
• Prepare and deliver high quality reports, using research and various inputs of all 6 areas covered by NMNW-Kenya.
• Present the NMN current programs and vision to the world and Communities.

The Project Manger should:

• Have the ability to work harmoniously in a multicultural environment.
• Have the ability to work independently and conduct concurrent activities without supervision
• Have Integrity, Excellent Organizational skills, strong personal ethic,
• Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values and have the ability to inspire and manage a team of equally powerful women.
• Have proven ability to set clear performance goals and standards while executing responsibilities accordingly.

You also must have an established track record working with Human Rights/GBV organizations or organizations serving in impoverished areas. 

Starting Salary: 55,000

Email your resume and cover letter to: ujamaajobs@gmail.com

Deadline: 29th September-6:00am