Kiswahili Language Teacher Job at One Acre Fund in Bungoma Kenya September 2014
Organization Description: One Acre Fund is a growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential.
Our program is proven impactful – every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and measure more than 100% average gain in farm income per acre.
Job Description: We are looking for an extremely organised, passionate and capable individual to take charge of providing Kiswahili language tuition to a number of members of our team – primarily people for whom English is a first language.
Essential Skills and Experience
- At least 2 years’ experience teaching Kiswahili to English speaking adults.
- Ability to develop plans and timelines for students’ learning needs.
- Ability to motivate students to improve their skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Strong writing and email correspondence skills are a must.
- Competent with computer software, including Microsoft Office (Word and Excel in particular).
- A welcoming and humble demeanour, essential for making students feel comfortable and supported.
- Strong ability to work within deadlines and stick to schedules
- Ability to multitask and prioritise – You will be managing lesson plans for a number of people with very different needs.
- Attention to detail – One Acre Fund has exceptionally high standards and it is the responsibility of everyone on the team to meet these standards.
- Ability to work under minimum supervision – our aim is that the successful candidate will be in a position to manage this language service independently after a short time with us.
- Must live or be willing to relocate to Bungoma, Western Kenya.
- Leadership experience – We need a pioneer to lead the development of this service.
- Experience working in an NGO environment or in the ‘International Development’ sector.
- Personal field or farming experience in rural Kenya
- Ability to work long hours – All One Acre Fund employees are passionate about what they do.
- We are a professional organisation and our employees often work outside regular hours in order to achieve fantastic results.
Scheduling Your Work: You would provide current and prospective students with tools which help them to book time with you and to have ownership over their schedules.
Student Motivation: You will be responsible for finding creative ways to mobilise students to take your classes, and motivate students to continue to improve. Your manager will support you with these, but development of ideas for incentive systems or motivation techniques will need to come from you.
Timeline: Resumes should be submitted by September 24th 2014
One Acre Fund is an equal opportunity employer.
To apply eMail cover letter and resume to kenyajobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Kiswahili Language Teacher + the place you heard of the position) and include salary expectations.