• Demonstrates enthusiasm for infant & primary education and commitment to furthering the school. • Lead the management planning processes to develop work plans and budgets. • Develop the school’s strategic plans, and master budget jointly with the management team. • Monitors school’s performance; ensuring a school-wide integrated M&E system is in place and operational. • Be secretary to the Board and PTA for governance that result in effective school strategic management. • Ensures co-ordination of PTA meetings, agenda, documentation and follows up for results after meetings. • Assists PTA in policy development and implementation of procedures and routines. • Co-ordinates PTA appraisal process, permitting and facilitating the PTA as they take appropriate actions based on lessons learnt. • Proactively understands the national education agenda, identifying gaps and infant/primary education priorities; taking opportunities to network as appropriate. • Leads the team review learning from past teaching engagements to identify avenues for future teaching and lesson awareness campaigns. • Supports teaching staff, develop new teaching techniques to improve the school education performance. • Review protocols to critique content and identify implications of planned pupil performance drives. • Champions strategic planning, school schedules and budget development, ensuring logistical and human resource implications of school programmes are anticipated. • Ensures mechanisms are developed to review staff performance for improved tool set, skill set and mind set. • Develops mentorship relationships, supporting staff in further professional development by coaching. • Leads the school carry out learning reviews and implementing improvements, ensuring lessons learned feed- back into the design & delivery of future interventions. • Oversees recruitment and placement of staff to fill positions in the school in consultation with the Administrator . • Promotes a culture that supports education and learning through engagement, championing modern teaching practices and rolling them out across the school. • Develops the school’s financial plan, aiming for comprehensive and activity-based budgeting in consultation with the administrator • Establishes a sustainable fees structure and collection plan, ensuring a wide variety of ways to collect fees. • Attends PTA meetings and discussion forums, ensuring parent visits are coordinated to high standards. • Jointly with management team, publishes school performance in academia and co-curricular to raise its’s profile. • Engages in academic and education drives by liaising with institutions and government departments. • Acts as an advisor to national (strategic level) parent meetings. • Behaves in ways that demonstrates high standards of professionalism and ethics. • Prepares/reviews reports, highlighting anomalies to the Directors to take appropriate corrective action. • Communicates to staff clear school objectives and their roles in ensuring the success of the school. • Ensures staff understand outcomes expected of them and build good relationships with pupils & parents. • Ensures school programmes are planned in cost effective ways and staff given appropriate workloads. • Supports staff performance towards optimum (by coaching, preventing/resolving problems, training etc.). • Monitors and reviews performance, holding staff accountable to achieve agreed upon targets. • Carry out other duties as requested by the school Directors

• Essential: Advanced Diploma in Primary Education, Social work, and social development • Desirable: Degree in Primary Education, Social work, and social development • Previous work experience required: • Essential: Minimum of 7 years in leadership role in a busy learning environment • Desirable: Having 10 years’ experience with Ministry of Education Sports • Technical knowledge or skills: • Essential: Leadership/management skills, Infant/Primary education expertise, Resource planning &Accounting • Desirable: Experience liaising with multi-stakeholders (Government, Parents and Schools). • Team orientation • Results orientation • Emotional resourcefulness • Proactivity • Logical & forward thinking • Leadership orientation • Team management • Relationship building • Financial management • Communication • Coaching & mentoring • Problem-solving • Decision-making • Commitment to vision • Concern for results • Deep respect for diversity • Commitment to team work and participative planning approaches • Professional ethics

Application should be addressed to The Director Merry land Infant and Primary School Kanyanya Gayaza Road and send their CVs via email to info.merrylandschools@gmail.com Deadline: 6th December 2024 NB: Interviews will be held on 13th December 2024.