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Bridge International Academies is the world’s largest education innovation company serving the 700 million families who live on less than $2 USD per day. We strive to provide the highest quality education product to the more than 100,000 students who attend Bridge’s more than 400 nursery and primary schools across emerging markets in Africa and (...
About The Role
A Field Officer is a former (or current) schoolteacher who is very good at observation. Each day, you're at a school. Mostly it's at one of Bridge’s many Academies, though sometimes it's at a government school or a non-Bridge low-cost private school. You're the "eyes and ears" of the Academic Team - a mix of experts at headquarters creating teacher training, books, lessons, and so forth.
What You Will Do
There Are 5 Main Tasks Each Day
That feedback helps two groups of people back at headquarters. First, the Curriculum Directors learn about strengths and weaknesses of the lessons themselves, so they can make changes. Second, the rest of the Academic Team notices patterns by reading dozens of your ratings - and then gets to make changes to teacher recruiting, teacher training, curriculum choices, etc. based on the patterns you provide through observation.
This is the most important function of a Field Officer.
For example, perhaps one school leader has organized a well-attended revision session that happens early each morning, and parents really like it. Or another academy recently had a robbery - and you realize that there's a procedure which could help all of Bridge such as packages of books should be opened immediately by school leaders, lest thieves think something valuable is inside like a television and steal it.
However, a Field Officer Might Also
That's a typical day.
In sum, you gather both quantitative and qualitative feedback that will help drive Academic team decisions. Your daily visits, when combined with those of other Academic Field Officers, help us improve the academic program at Bridge, a little at a time.
Each day, you send all of this back to the Academic Team (via email, Skype, etc).
What You Should Have
We're looking for a former teacher with a keen eye for observing others. But that's not enough. The very act of visiting schools and noticing "What works and what fails" must be intellectually interesting to you - a daily puzzle you want to solve each day. Otherwise, the work would get tiresome.
You also must be an effective writer, able to communicate what you see and hear. And, you must be an effective interviewer - able to get teachers, parents, pupils, and academy leaders to speak honestly to you. Sometimes they will be nervous that if they share problems with you, it could cause trouble, so you need to be reassuring.
You’re Also
Travel
A Field Officer is usually based near the national headquarters in Nairobi, and probably 80% of visits are straightforward - leave early in the morning, take transportation, return home that night. Perhaps 20% of the visits require travel outside your immediate area. For example, a Nairobi-based Field Officer would occasionally travel to Mombasa, or upcountry, etc.
Location
This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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