Kigali, Rwanda 

Who We Are 

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. 

With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity. 

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement -- all grounded in learning science -- to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe. 

NewGlobe’s high-touch, intensive professional development programs, along with integrated school management, teacher support, and assessment software, enable schools to succeed. NewGlobe works within state and national curriculum and syllabi, ensuring all children are empowered to learn their own history, and master local content, while being globally competitive in mathematics and languages. The science of behaviour change and the science of learning is at the foundation of all programming. 

NewGlobe works with urgency because youth quickly becomes adulthood and relentlessly because improvement requires continuous problem-solving. NewGlobe is honoured to serve and to help rebuild trust in public systems. 

NewGlobe’s work is all encompassing and will challenge you to use your full mind, and heart, each day. We need bright minds who want to be part of building a new globe -- a more equitable globe -- to join us. 

Schools 

Schools is the heart of our work. The team is mandated to inspire teachers to teach with passion, pupils to learn with purpose, parents to believe in a better future for their children, and communities to become the change they want to see in the world. To achieve this vision, the team ensures schools are smoothly run - the school team is motivated and inspired, delivering life changing lessons, creating an experience that makes parents stay with us, and also cultivating interest and excitement in our work in communities where we serve. Schools is responsible for ensuring all of the work created by our expert teams, including Instructional Design, Leadership & Development, Technology, Communications, Creative and Insight, are used in each school, and each school is managed to achieve its goal of ensuring every child enjoys a learning environment that develops her core skills, knowledge and confidence. The performance of the entire organization is led by the Schools Group, which is responsible for day-to-day management of each school. Schools works to strengthen school enrollment and student retention, ensuring every school is regarded as the strongest school in its neighborhood and delivers on improved learning outcomes for children and earns the trust of the parents. We engage with school leaders and teachers every day, ensuring ongoing professional development, performance management, and intensive coaching. We are always seeking effective ways of ensuring every school is supported with data-driven practices. We measure our success through both the financial sustainability of the school and the learning outcomes of the children in the classroom. We are performance driven. 

About the Role 

The Regional Director, Schools is responsible for the educational outcomes across schools in all territories, via his or her co-management and functional support of Schools Directors. Schools Directors are responsible for the performance management of every school in the territory or program. This includes school management, school programming, staff professional development, relations with government partners, regulatory compliance, and parent and community engagement in every school we support. The team they supervise is in schools each day, providing ongoing mentorship, specific performance feedback, and on-going group and personal training. They manage one of the largest teams in the company, led by the field team of School Supervisors, that give daily support to each school. They have the incredible responsibility for the integrated delivery of all our programming in each school, for each teacher, for each child. 

This is a managerial role. The Regional Director, Schools is the functional manager of Schools Directors. You work with Managing Directors in each territory to ensure that all Schools Directors are using data to drive performance, constant coaching to change behavior, and ensuring rigorous implementation of core school programs. You will also hold Schools Directors accountable in achieving strong performance on Schools KPIs. 

The Regional Director, Schools will also ensure that Schools Directors have a clear and focused work plan, ensuring that each territory has an up to date Schools Plan for each academic year, setting quarterly goals for the Schools Director to execute the Schools Plan, and establishing strong coordination and clear communication between territory and Shared Services teams regarding core schools programming. He or she ensures that our processes and tools for school management and parent and community engagement are implemented in each territory. 

Finally, you will coach Schools Directors on all aspects of their role and responsibilities on a weekly basis. This role reports to VP, Schools. 

What You Will Do 

• Work with Managing Directors in each territory to ensure that all Schools Directors are using data to drive performance, constant coaching to change behavior, and ensuring rigorous implementation of core school programs. 
• Hold Schools Directors accountable in achieving strong performance on schools KPIs o Use data to drive School Director performance, and coaching needed across all parts of the Schools vertical in the territory, and program implementation 
• Collaborate with the Managing Director to ensure that Schools Directors have a clear and focused work plan 
• Ensure that each territory has an up to date Schools Plan and calendar for each academic year 
• Set quarterly goals for the Schools Director to execute the Schools Plan
• Facilitate strong coordination and communication between Shared Services and Territory teams 
• Ensure that there is routine communication between the Schools Director, Regional Director, Schools and Managing Director 
• Ensure strong information flow and coordination between Shared Services Schools, Leadership and Development, Academics or other Groups and the Schools Director, as necessary 
• Guide Schools Directors in facilitating change through healthy change management (especially changes that affect daily operations or the experience of school staff, parents or pupils) 
• Coach and support Schools Directors in all of their work 
• Other duties as required 

What You Should Have 

• Proven management and leadership experience, leading teams of people to accomplish an objective 
• Proven experience managing field-based teams 
• Professional proficiency in English and French is a must have
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time
• Belief in data-driven decision making 
• School management experience a plus 
• Relentless focus on achievement for yourself and others 
• Bias towards action 
• Flexible and loves to work in a dynamic environment 
• Collaborative leader with strong relationship building skills 
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Strong communication skills 
• Undergraduate degree (or its equivalent),  Masters degree preferred

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 networking mastermind – You excel at meeting new people and turning them into advocates. You communicate in a clear, conscientious, and effective way in both written and oral speech. You can influence strangers in the course of a single conversation. Allies and colleagues will go to bat for your ideas. You have an existing network within Africa from prior experience, preferably in the regulatory, education, or business sectors. 
• A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, NewGlobe 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 makeconsiders 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 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.  #LI-TO1 #LI-HYBRID