Officer, Academics at NewGlobe

About The Role

• The Academic Officer will ultimately be responsible for educational outcomes across schools in their assigned territory and will serve as an individual contributor, collaborator, and manager in this role.
• As an individual contributor, the Academic Officer will manage all academic events and initiatives for the territory. This will include the implementation of cyclical events (e.g., provision and maintenance of a school and academic calendar, daily and weekly timetables) and any new learning innovation launched throughout the academic year.
• As a collaborator, the Academic Officer will be responsible for coordinating with Shared Services Instructional Design and Learning Innovation to ensure that all levers of achievement are robust and contextualized for the territory. Within the territory team, the Academic Officer will work with other departments to ensure that all schools have the right operational conditions for learning to take place.
• Finally, as a manager, the Academic Officer will ensure that members of the Academic team in the territory have a clear work plan and are productively working in tandem to generate achievement in schools.

What You Will Do

• The Academic Officer must be a data-driven individual with experience developing and managing cultures of high performance and high expectations. You must be a great academic leader who understands exceptional instruction and can motivate and support others in realizing a vision of academic excellence. Ideal candidates have worked in organizations with a proven track record of generating large learning gains.

In addition, the Academic Officer will:

• Lead execution and interdepartmental coordination of the core academic program in territory.
• Advocating for learning outcomes and serving as an in-territory academic consultant for other departments.
• Providing feedback to the Instructional Design team, to improve learning outcomes and culturally contextualize what is taught in your territory.
• Representing NewGlobe with key state stakeholders, including the Ministry of Education and other government education officials.
• Conducting necessary market and regulatory research to inform instructional systems and policies (timetable, teacher specialty configurations, retention policies, exam policy, placement policy).
• Managing the Academics team based in your territory: Programme Manager.
• The Academic Officer will report to the Schools Director and the Academic Director, Shared Services.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field, graduate degrees preferred.
• 2-4 years’ experience working in education.
• 2 or more years of teaching experience with evidence of outsized student learning gains is an added advantage.
• Experience working in the education sector.

You’re also

• A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, we work in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.
• A relentless advocate – The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.
• A malleable learner – You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
• A data-driven decision-maker – When making decisions, you don’t rely on your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications.
• A curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.