Senior Curriculum Specialist
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 ultralow-cost
for-profit private Academies across Africa.
Our
Academies 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 83 schools in Kenya, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve
more than 10 million students.
About
this position
Bridge
International Academies is seeking a Senior Curriculum Specialist to design
elements of our instructional program and drive results in upper primary
Social Studies, Science and CRE.
You
will be responsible for developing and researching curricular materials
including schemes of work, detailed lesson plans, direct instruction
scripts, student exercises, and student assessments.
You
will manage a team of authors writing Science, Social Studies and
CRE lessons as well as our KCPE preparation program.
About
You
- You
have excellent written communication in both English and Swahili. You are
able to write in a natural voice and adapt your communication to
varied audience including government officials and young children.
- You
have at least 2 years management experience.
- You
have strong computer and typing skills.
- You
have experience working with children in a classroom environment.
- You
function well in a fast-paced informal environment where constant change
is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
- You
have demonstrated ability to drive change and innovate new policies,
procedures and pedagogical approaches.
- You
have significant experience preparing learners for the KCPE and are able
to exactly communicate strategies for improving student performance.
Ideally, you have managed a team of adults working on a KCPE
preparation program.
Our
team has a passionate belief that basic primary education is critical to the
development of every child, family, community and nation.
We
aim give millions of children the opportunity to accomplish their dreams and we
are looking for exceptionally talented people to join us in this effort.
In
order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and
upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
Only
short listed candidates will be contacted