Senior School Support Officer

Key Requirements

• Bachelors in Education
  
• Minimum of two years’ experience serving as a school leader
  
• Experience in delivering training to school leaders and teachers
  
• Background knowledge in Child Protection and Safeguarding practices
  
• Experience working in rural communities and passion for work in the field
  
• Driving license for car or motorcycle (and willingness to self-drive)
  
• Strong understanding of school governance structures in Uganda and/or previous experience in school governance
  
• Desire to learn and quickly build knowledge of international best practices across pedagogy, assessment, teacher and leader training and development.
  

And someone who is:

• Able to analyse, interpret and use school data to inform school support
  
• Adaptable, flexible and resilient
  
• Strong communicator, able to motivate and persuade others
  
• Able to model excellent teaching and learning
  
• Independent self-motivated worker, able to tackle challenging situations with professional maturity
  
• Excellent line management skills; and/or commitment to becoming a great line manager
  
• Able to be based in rural locations, near schools with frequent travel