We are looking for an outstanding educator to serve as a Student Welfare Associate at our Tatu Primary campus.
As a Student Welfare Associate, you will be a member of the school leadership team. Your core focus will be developing and leading our student welfare and parent partnership model alongside the school leadership, teaching and student affairs’ teams. In addition you will build strong relationships with teammates and parents to facilitate student culture and discipline strategies in the school. Moreover, you will work closely with data systems to ensure and develop pastoral excellence. This is an opportunity to help create a transformative school model with the future of Africa’s youth at stake.
This is an opportunity to help create a transformative school model with the future of Africa’s youth at stake.
ABOUT NOVA PIONEER
Imagine a world in which every young person across Africa attends a school that truly sets them up for success in the 21st century. A school that cares about individual students and allows them to explore the world around them. A school that focuses more on developing skills than on memorizing content. At Nova Pioneer, we have done more than just imagine this future, we are bringing it to life. Nova Pioneer is a pan-African, independent network of schools offering high quality, accessible education from pre-primary through secondary school. Nova Pioneer uses a unique, enquiry-based learning approach that encourages students to ask “why” instead of telling them the “what”. It allows them to form their own thinking through exploration, investigation and collaboration. Nova Pioneer currently has 17 schools in South Africa and Kenya with a vision to launch 100 schools and reach tens of thousands of students across the African continent in the next decade. To learn more visit www.novapioneer.com.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Key responsibilities for the role include:
ABOUT YOU
- Be a culture champion for our Primary & International School by spearheading school student culture events within the school's vision and annual theme
- Engage with the many stakeholders who make up Nova Pioneer community in the following ways:
Students
- Manages the student’s government programmes including elections, induction, training, activities and offboarding.
- Provides safe channels for students to share feedback/ideas and address their concerns via student hours.
- Manages the student happiness survey process (scheduling, administration, data analysis and leveraging data to improve students’ experience).
- Leads student mentoring/buddy programmes to strengthen student relationships
- Provides structures for celebrating students who are living and leading NP Culture
- Coordinates student onboarding. Onboard new students and orient continuing students to new expectations as they progress from one level to the next
- In conjunction with the Deputy School Leader, owns the implementation of the contents of the Student Code of Conduct handbook and related policies
- Coordinates the school’s daily routine from arrival to dismissal, ensuring the baraza and recess schedule is clearly mapped out and implemented.
- Leads health and safety activities: lead the health and safety committee, plan and coordinate emergency drills, first aid training for all teammates and students, etc.
- Tracks and maintains high levels of student safety, health and wellness
- Understands how to support students in managing behaviour expectations using restorative approach and guides instructional leads on how to apply SEL
Parents
- Manages the family satisfaction survey process (scheduling, administration, data analysis and leveraging data to improve students’ experience).
- Onboards new families and offboards families exiting the school.
- Works with Administrative staff and Admissions to coordinate and track new enrollments/ joiners.
- Coordinates beginning of year student onboarding activities such as Week Zero.
Academic & Student Affairs’ Teams
- Conducts professional development and trains teachers on managing student behaviour and building student character.
- Is the primary owner of Student Leadership Development: Creates plans and systems for teaching student leadership development to Novaneers, including supporting rollout with teachers, training and development for teachers, and observation and feedback on implementation.
- Coaches and manages the Student Affairs team that comprises the School Nurses and School Counsellors
- Works with the School Counsellors and teachers to create individual student behaviour plans and student support plans.
- Coordinates school duty rotas and other relevant student life experiences (non-academic) e.g. health and safety; school culture e.g. dismissal; transitions; safety drills e.g. fire drills, etc.
- Any other duties as assigned by your Manager
Skills and Qualifications required
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in psychology, sociology or the humanities but a degree in Education is desirable
- You have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills that encompass trust and respect.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You have strong coaching and people management skills.
- You have a proven track record of success in leading team(s) at the entry or mid-level.
- You have very strong planning and organisation skills (will be required to send parent surveys, organise student lists and teacher lists for school events, etc).
- You have experience using tech.
- You are a critical thinker, flexible, adaptable, innovative and creative.
- You understand the complexities of working in a multi-faceted, fast-paced organisation.
- You are passionate about building strong relationships with students and parents.
- You have high energy levels and can work in a highly confidential setting.
- You have experience leading and coordinating teams and working closely with students and parents.
- You are excited about our organisational culture - and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback.
- You have a desire to further develop your leadership skills and apply them to transform the lives of African youth.
HOW TO APPLY
Does working at Nova Pioneer excite you? If so, then apply now!
To apply, please complete the form on the right hand side of this page. We cannot process applications that are emailed to us.
Please note: You are encouraged to attach your resume in PDF format to protect formatting.
There are a series of stages in the Nova Pioneer interview process and candidates will be moved forward in the process depending on their success in the previous stage. The process is as follows:
- Phone interview: a short conversation to understand your skills and experience a little better.
- Practical demonstration of what you can do: you will complete a written task or a demonstration related to the role you are applying for. Teachers sit an assessment and deliver a lesson to a class.
- Final interview: you’ll have a final conversation with the hiring manager before decisions are made.
WORKING AT NOVA PIONEER
Nova Pioneer is a place where our people experience tremendous growth, fast! We invest heavily in the growth of our people because it leads to greater mastery in both us and our students. “Novaneers” work harder and work longer hours than at most schools but as a result, the growth they experience is extraordinary. We offer consistent and ongoing professional development and provide clear career pathways that ensure that our people are always achieving their personal and professional best. Nova Pioneer has a highly energetic, entrepreneurial environment where our people get to bring their creative and innovative ideas to life. We look for people who are flexible and who are able to adapt and respond quickly to adversity with a positive, can-do attitude (there are no problems, only solutions!). We welcome challenges and roll with the punches because it makes us, and our students, better. There is no problem too big for us! We work hard but we also have a lot of fun together. We bring infectious energy and enthusiasm to everything we do because joy fuels the hardest work and learning. Read more about our culture principles here
Nova Pioneer will never request an application fee from candidates. If you are contacted with a request to pay a fee from someone claiming to be a Nova Pioneer Talent or Recruitment representative, please do not pay them and report it to us immediately on talent.ke@novapioneer.com or talent.sa@novapioneer.com.
