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About The Role

• The Academic Manager for Bridge Nigeria will ultimately be responsible for educational outcomes across schools.
• The Academic Manager will design, lead, and improve all academic decisions, policies, and initiatives for the Bridge Nigeria programme. This work will require collaboration across key functional areas such as content creation, printed teaching and learning materials, and teacher training. The Academic Manager will also work with schools and civil society to understand the effectiveness of Bridge Nigeria and incessantly work to iterate and improve.This work will be codified in a yearly academic plan including all policies for all facets of Academics, which the Academic Manager owns.
• The academic plan is a dynamic document. First and foremost, the Academic Manager is responsible for the creation, maintenance, implementation, and ongoing iteration of the academic plan to ensure that it optimises learning across elements of the school experience (for students, teachers, head teachers, and community stakeholders. The Academic Manager also works to ensure that academic plan is understood both within the Bridge Nigeria team. This includes defending Bridge Nigeria structured pedagogy approach and educating fellow staff members and school communities on the programme’s philosophy around targeted instruction aligned to true learning levels. Buy-in for the academic plan among all internal and external stakeholders - driven by a clear understanding of the plan’s logic and value - is critical to ensure that the academic programme and policies are implemented effectively.
• Within the Bridge Nigeria team, the Academic Manager will work with all departments to ensure that the academic plan is being implemented with fidelity and that the programme more broadly is being delivered in a way that maximises students’ opportunity to learn. This means obsessing over the details of implementation. Are teachers delivering lessons consistently and as intended? Are books being used properly? Are policies being enacted in practice as they are outlined in writing? The Academic Manager questions and validates every assumption using strong primary source data. This requires working through different departments and teams in order to define the key questions around implementation, collect and analyse data, and define the details of any required improvement plan.

What You Will Do

• Advocate for learning outcomes and serving as the Bridge Nigeria academic expert for other departments
• Lead creation, execution, and interdepartmental coordination of the core academic systems and policies in the programme through creation, implementation, maintenance, and iteration of the Academic Plan
• Provide feedback to the Instructional Design team, in order to improve learning outcomes and culturally contextualise what is taught in Lagos and Osun
• Conduct necessary market and regulatory research to inform instructional systems and policies (timetable, teacher specialty configurations, academic calendar, retention policies, exam policy, placement policy)
• Regularly review of data on academic performance and school health to validate current approaches, improve day-to-day implementation, and prepare justification for future changes
• Manage the Academics team based in your programme, including but not limited to the Academic Officer who is in schools daily, doing observations of lessons.
• Report to the Managing Director

What You Should Have

• The Academic Manager 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 realising a vision of academic excellence. Ideal candidates have worked in organisations with one or more of the following characteristics:
  • a proven track record of generating large learning gains at scale
  • structured pedagogy.
  • targeted instruction based on the level of the learner, especially in literacy and/or numeracy

In addition, the Academic Manager must:

• Be bought into structured pedagogy.
• Be able to think about what works at a single school and also what works at one thousand schools
• Be a self-starter and problem-solver, who thinks three and four steps ahead.
• Be hard working and collaborative, with the tenacity to plough through challenges and an appreciation for teamwork toward achieving a shared vision.
• Be a fast learner and someone who is able to flourish in fast paced, dynamic, and sometimes ambiguous environments
• Be both detailed and results-oriented, driven by the data that will allow us to know what is working and what isn’t working for kids.
• Have strong project management skills and excellent organisational skills, with keen attention to detail and ability to follow up systematically on a broad set of initiatives and decisions
• Be an effective, articulate communicator who can represent NewGlobe to external audiences.
• Be humble and ready to “roll up your sleeves” to get things done

Education and Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field; graduate degrees preferred
• At least 5 years of work experience, including in a leadership or management position
• Experience working with Secondary schools as a teacher, school leader, or as part of a project
• Strong understanding of instructional design and instructional quality, including effective literacy and numeracy teaching and learning materials

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, Bridge works 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.

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About The Role

• The People Operations Team is responsible for all the touchpoints of managing the employee lifecycle, including but not limited to offer letters, contracts, benefits, performance management tools, and employee off-boarding with both local laws and company policies.
• People Operations uses data from employee lifecycle management to improve employee management and effectiveness, ensuring all components of the People Group are using data to drive decision-making.
• Effective programming within People Operations ensures that employees are seamlessly supported through their employment touchpoints, and that core employment structures and compensation strategies are used effectively to attract and retain high performing employees within the constraints of business operations.
• The Officer, People Operations is responsible for supporting specific administrative, operational and quantitative tasks that contribute to attaining the above objectives of the People Operations Team. This role will report to the Manager, People Operations.

What You Will Do

• Separations Process: lead and "quarterback" separations processes, including department, asset, and financial handovers - involves IT, Admin, and Payroll Accountant
• Onboarding Process: lead and "quarterback" teams from IT, Admin, etc. in ensuring that staff are successfully on boarded
• Payroll Verification: work with Payroll Accountant to ensure that all contractors and employees are properly represented with the right deductions/additions, if any. Generate monthly report for managers on headcount
• Staff Benefits: supporting staff with questions about health coverage, managing additions to coverage, dealing with other health coverage issues
• Asset Management: ensure that all staff have the assets they need; deal with asset recovery processes and exchanges/one-off needs. Heavy interfacing with IT and Admin
• Leave Management: assist employees with leave, generate monthly report for managers on leave balances
• Disciplinary Procedures: work with the Manager, People Operations and Director, People as needed on managing these procedures
• Staff Documentation: ensuring that offer letters, contracts, probation confirmations, and change of status documents are appropriately handled

What You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree from a reputable university.
• Minimum 2 years of full-time work experience after graduation from your undergraduate degree.
• Strong adherence to systems and processes.
• Experience working with a culturally and socioeconomically diverse workforce.
• Excellent email, Excel /spreadsheet, MS Word/word processing skills ; technologically competent/quick learner.
• Work experience in fast-growth, rapid-scale contexts, particularly with large numbers of field staff.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• High energy and enthusiasm level; willingness to do whatever necessary to get the job done.
• Experience in a challenging, dynamic and complex business environment.

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, Bridge works 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.