BEL Specialisation Learning Coach

ABOUT ALU

ALU provides higher education for a higher purpose. Our students declare missions, not majors.
They develop the real-world skills to take on the world’s most pressing challenges. And they take ownership of their learning from day one through our peer and student-led approach – because ALU believes in the power and agency of young people to start shaping the future right now.
Together with a world-class faculty and staff, our students are igniting a ripple of positive impact across Africa and the world.

We are dedicated to fostering an open yet secure environment, balancing the safety of students, staff, and visitors with respect for individual rights, and safeguarding responsibilities.

HOW WE WORK

As a high-growth start-up, the ALU Team works in starkly different ways to traditional academic bureaucracies. We approach education from first principles, empower individuals to design, test, and implement creative new ideas, and work closely together to craft transformative learning experiences. We are deeply passionate about our students and excited by the challenge of building something entirely new.  

The African Leadership University is committed to ensuring the safety and Well-being of all students under our care. As part of this commitment , we have a comprehensive safeguarding policy in place , which outlines our Zero-tolerance approach to any violation of safeguarding.

ABOUT THE ROLE

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate degree course lessons with students virtually or in person.
• Contribute to the content and/or development of trimester degree courses in the Bachelor of Entrepreneurial Leadership degree programme.
• Provide academic support to students throughout their specialisation learning journey, maintaining and updating concept maps, resources, and assessment rubrics.
• Contribute to updated definitive documentation for the BEL specialisation modules in documents, such as the Bachelor of Entrepreneurial Leadership handbooks.
• Contribute to the development of student orientation and induction for the specialisation modules for each new intake and support any redesign by providing feedback and implementing changes approved by the line manager.
• Engage in the specialisation induction and re-induction of coaches, respectively, as well as other professional development activities.
• Support students in the creation and refinement of their missions.
• Engage with all developmental and performance management processes for learning coaches.
• Contribute to the annual programme review to ensure content is up-to-date, valid, relevant and reflects current and future trends in the 14 Grand Challenges and Great Opportunities (GCGOs) whilst giving consideration to pedagogical approaches suited for scalable learning.
• Conduct regular student-staff consultative group meetings to capture student feedback and implement recommendations to enhance the quality of programme delivery.
• Regularly review the Learning Management System analytical reports and other student engagement indicators to identify students who may require intervention from coaches throughout the specialisation learning journey.
• Implement modifications to learning materials, assessments, and other relevant components to meet internal and external quality assurance requirements.
• Implement modifications to the specialisations' academic components following the findings of the annual programme review, periodic review, student-staff consultative groups, student evaluations and other quality assurance & enhancement instruments.
• Contribute to decision-making as a member of the assessment board.
• Other relevant activities to ensure the successful delivery of the programme may be allocated from time to time by the line manager.

Ensure the safety and well-being of all young persons and vulnerable adults with whom we deal,  by adhering to ALU’s comprehensive safeguarding policy, maintaining a zero-tolerance approach to any violations of safeguarding standards.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Master’s degree (be ready to have a Rwandan Equivalence if the qualification is not from a Rwandan institution) in relevant fields.
• At least two years of work experience closely related to one of the following areas:

○ Policy and Advocacy

(eg. Governance, Political science, International relations, Non-profits and grassroots leadership, Diplomacy, Public Policy)
○ Planetary Health

(eg. Conservation, Natural resources management, Healthcare, Food systems and Agriculture,Circular Economy)

○ Business, Investment and Strategy

(eg. International Business, International Trade, Economics/Finance/Accounting/Statistics, Political Economy, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, International Development )

• Excellent coaching skills.
• Experience in education - crafting learning outcomes and assessments
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal and presentation skills
• Mastery of English as primary learning language at ALU
• Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• The ability to quickly analyse data and determine the appropriate academic support intervention required by the student or to redirect to other teams.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to multitask, prioritise own work, and work independently.
• A startup mindset to help us scale the programme to the order of thousands of students in the next 12 months.

Desirable

• PhD degree in any of the highlighted areas
• Strong regional and international network with NGOs, Startup Incubators and accelerators, etc.
• Experience in online teaching and learning delivery at challenger universities.