Academy Manager

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 (soon to …

Academy Manager

About the Role

The Academy Manager is responsible for managing and overseeing the operations of the Bridge Academy in all respects. The role holder is ultimately responsible for the smooth running of the Bridge school, the academic achievement of its pupils and the management of its staff. This job requires a strong presence around the academy and the local community.

What You Will Do

• Academy management – ensure that the academy’s financial, operational, and instructional goals are met leveraging smartphone and computer tablet technologies to manage operations and track oversight; escalate any problems immediately.

• Implement and enforce approved education and administrative policies as directed.

• Community relations – develop and maintain strong relationships with local leaders and organisations to advocate for higher-quality education and promote Bridge.

• Parent outreach – conduct various forms of customer outreach ranging from door-to-door canvassing to academy-hosted events in order to attract new pupils to Bridge.

• Customer relations – maintain positive relationships with existing families to ensure their loyalty, timely fees payments, and word-of-mouth recommendations; be accountable and ensure all parent queries are responded to in a timely manner.

• Academic oversight – Supervise and mentor teachers to ensure pupils are receiving a world class education; recruit new teachers as needed.

• Supplies and facility maintenance – ensure the academy has all of the resources needed to teach pupils, and that its environment is clean, safe, and conducive for learning; manage academy cook and person responsible for keeping academy clean.

• Financial sustainability – ensure the academy is able to grow and pay all staff salaries and vendors on time by ensuring all pupils’ fees are paid on time and academy spending is on budget.

• And any other related duties that are in line with your training and competencies.

What You Should Have

• A KCSE mean grade of C plain and above for P1 trained teachers and D+ and above for ECD trained teachers.

• Bachelor of Education as an added advantage.

• A well liked teacher (or youth leader) with at least 2 years of teaching experience.

• At least 2 years of experience in managing a team of 5 to 10 people as an added advantage.

• Experience in fee management and enrolment and oversight of other teachers as an added advantage.

• Motivated in doing something for the development of the community.

• Ability to address the parents with utmost respect and solve the problems with right solutions.

• Ability to handle a team and face challenges on day to day operations.

• Ability to assess a team of teachers in respect to their deliverables.

• Innovative with an appetite for trying out new things.

• Should not be too comfortable in delegating and therefore comes with expectations of support staff.