ob Description

Makini School is looking to appoint the Director of Academics, to lead in reviewing, developing academic strategy, and coordinating stakeholders/resources to deliver excellent academic achievement. Makini School is focused on academic excellence, skills development, and nurturing values that enable our promise of providing quality education. As an institution, we are privileged to have access to the global best practice in education and academics through vast expertise within the ADvTECH school’s division.

Output 1 – Development and Execution of the Academic Strategy 

• Leading, review and development of the academic strategy for the Makini schools.
• Working with schools’ leadership to align brand value propositions with the academic strategy.
• Setting academic performance goals against the strategy.
• Selection of measurement tools for academic performance measurement.
• Communication of academic strategy internally and externally.
• Review and monitoring of strategy and strategic focus areas.
• Definition and development of the tactics, goals and processes to achieve that strategy.
• Oversight of professional development and associated activities to improve brand performance.

Output 2 – Academic performance benchmarking and improvement

• Selection and implementation of benchmarking tools.
• Communication of findings and collaborative agreement with school management of improvement strategies.
• Monitoring implementation of the performance improvement strategies.

Output 3 – Teaching and Learning

• Leading academic staff in the selection of progressive teaching and learning methodologies and technologies.
• Developing and reviewing a framework for the use of ICT  in thr teaching and learning
• Oversight of implementation of appropriate technologies to support learning and teaching.
• Driving and support adoption of learning management systems as next phase of blended learning
• Supporting the development of teacher skillsOutput 4 –   Curriculum alignment and monitoring
  • Design and development of appropriate differentiation and standardisation projects that will enable common assessments and benchmarking including but not limited to timetable efficiencies and models.
  • Develop and implement same scope and sequence framework for all schools across subjects to support impact and performance measurement.
  • Identify and support projects to share best practise and learning material.
  • Support the running of differentiated curricula.

  Output 5 – School effectiveness and efficiencies

  • Collaborative work to ensure effective and efficient staffing and other resource models for schools aligned with impact assessments.
  • Develop sustainable co-operative relationships with national education structures to improve information and understanding of the schools and to provide leadership and guidance on educational matters for the schools.
  • Identify and promote implementation of common resources where suitable in context of brand differentiation – making use of both traditional and digital platforms.

   Output 6 – Innovation

  • Evaluate trends and products to identify those with the potential for impact on teaching and learning and guide adoption where appropriate.
  • Monitor and evaluate impact and adoption.

  Output 7 – Differentiation (brand)

  • Ensure inclusion of differentiators such as global competencies and RDI.
  • Develop and implement programmes/ competitions/ other differentiators such as Tournament of Minds.
  • Drive implementation of technology enabled learning

     Output – 8 Output Data driven decision making.

    • Develop and administer common assessments as standardised assessments.
    • Use benchmark testing to compare and develop performance and align performance goals and strategies.
    • Embed a goal-oriented approach to results including deliberate use of data.
    • Develop, review and implement school readiness tests.
    • Develop, review and implement transition tracking tools for first year of each phase.
    • Develop a standardised framework for timetabling.
    • Develop BI capability through KITSO (working with ITSU team) and drive use of the tool to improve school management of performance.

     Output – 9 Research and Analysis

    • Creates a dynamic and forward-looking research environment.
    • Conducts analysis of key areas of academic performance in through data collection and analysis.
    • Pilot projects and initiatives.
    • Keeps abreast of educational trends and assesses for impact and implementation where appropriate.

    Output 10 – Quality Assurance

    • Develop and implement a quality assurance framework including performance measurement.
    • Establish a QA and growth-oriented mindset in the brand to support development of same in each school.
    • Ensure that the necessary evaluation and monitoring procedures and tools are in place to ensure both compliance and improvement.
    • Oversee authorisation and verification visits of newly introduced curricula.
    • Ensure that new teachers have mentors aligned to ensuring strong results.
    • Training and capacity development.

     Output 11 – People Management/Support

    • Support the Schools academic team members for high performance aligned with strategy and goals.
    • Support brand management and assist with appointments.
    • Give regular, actionable feedback to the brand and schools.
    • Budgeting and financial management for all associated activities.

     Output 12 – Stakeholder Relationship Management

    • Partner with brand leadership to quality assure differentiation as well as divisional compliance.
    • Strategically manage relationships with Heads, Support departments, teachers and ADvTECH.
    • Ensure and enable clear and open communication that includes regular feedback and information sharing.
    • Refine and improve functioning of communication and information sharing processes.
    • Report to Management Committee (MANCO).
    • Provide and guides strategic partners regarding the brand’s objectives and strategy.
    • Ensure that the compliance requirements for academic work across the brand are known and understood and engage with the relevant bodies to ensure compliance.
    • Provide guidance on where the brand’s objectives require alignment to stakeholder objectives.

     Education – Minimum:

    •  Master’s degree in education
    • TSC Registered
    • PhD preferred

     Competencies:

    • National curriculums
    • Professional Ethics
    • Ministry of Education, TSC and KICD
    • Examination requirements
    • Teaching Trends
    • In-depth knowledge of the relevant legislation

    Behavioural Attributes

    • Analytical
    • Integrity
    • Honesty
    • Ethical behaviour and sound judgement Collaboration
    • Execution
    • Growth mindset

     

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