Training Manager Job Opportunity in Nairobi Kenya January 2015

Job Title: Training Manager

Department: Recruiting and Training

Place of Work: Nairobi – Headquarters

Contract Type: Permanent (Indefinite)

Level: Manager

Description: Managing the implementation of training programs for Teachers and School Managers at various academies. You will monitor and evaluate facilitators who run the 7-week training program, and build an operations system to service several training programs simultaneously.

As the organization scales, your work will eventually develop hundreds of training programs across East Africa that will train thousands of Teachers and School Managers.

About the Organisation: Our Client is a start-up for profit organization that is revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra-low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.

Their schools 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.

They have already launched the first 37 schools in their network in poor communities throughout Kenya with tremendous success, and will double the schools on a national level over the next quarter. The long-term plan is to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million families throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

About this Position: Our Client has developed an extensive Teacher and School Manager Training Institute for new school-level staff. Candidates are recruited from the local community and then trained to become effective teachers and school managers in only 7 weeks. Many of the trainees have no previous work experience in either teaching or school management.

On the teacher side, the training focuses on the most practical areas that teachers will need to successfully guide a classroom. For example, focusing on assessment tools, classroom management and discipline, and implementing scripted lesson plans, which are based on the Kenyan national curriculum.

In the school manager training, the focus is on training the manager how to use the automated, systemized tools (Smart-phone based) to manage school staff and budgets, report student enrolment, and manage tuition payments. Training facilitators follow a handbook to deliver consistent lectures, discussions, practice lessons and exams. The company calls this the “Training in a Box” model.

You will be in charge of monitoring and evaluating facilitators who run the 7-week training program, and build an operations system to service several training programs simultaneously. As the organization scales, your work will eventually develop hundreds of training programs across East Africa that will train thousands of Teachers and School Managers.

Due to the standardization and systematizing, the approach is most similar to that of other large scale chains of service businesses, like McDonalds. Similar to a McDonalds, the success of our schools depends critically on the success of our Facilitators who provide the instruction and support our Teacher trainees require.

Our Client is seeking a full-time Training Manager to supervise the East African training Programme to ensure that our 7-week long training sessions are delivered with integrity, quality and systemization.

In the coming years, Our Client will be launching hundreds of new schools each year, requiring the supervision of dozens of new Training Officers and Facilitators as they train thousands of new staff.

Because of this scale, it’s critical that we ensure our trainings are effective and standardized so as to deliver a training program that produces large numbers of competent, capable school-level staff.

Job Responsibilities

Provide daily training and facilitation, according to detailed guidelines and session scripts created to train new teachers, who will work in challenging settings.
Must be skillful in managing large groups of people (60-100 adult trainees).
Document all trainee concerns, questions, accomplishments and outcomes on a lap top computer.
Work with a team to make improvements to presentations
Meet with senior trainers to share results and feedback from daily presentations.
Record individual scores for trainees as they teach sample lessons in small groups.
Visit schools and provide feedback to teachers, based on skills taught in training sessions.

Position Requirements:

A Bachelor’s degree is required.
At least 3-4 years of experience in a Management position
Must have experience facilitating training sessions, preferably for groups of 60 or more participants.
Must have experience teaching or working in a school, preferably in a slum area.
Strong computer skills, including Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, video and internet.
Must demonstrate a high level of professionalism and integrity in speech and behavior.
Outgoing, energetic and friendly personality who is able to manage stress well.
Experience using hands-on training methods such as large group discussion, modeling (demonstrating) how to use tools, small group discussion, observation and providing feedback using a rubric.
Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
Must have excellent paper and computer organization skills.
Must be comfortable giving and receiving feedback in order to improve performance.
Prior experience training large groups (60+ people) over several weeks is a plus.
Supervisory/management experience is a plus.

Please apply on the following link stating your current and expected remuneration: http://recruitment.nftconsult.com/careers/index.php?m=careers&p=showJob&ID=1226