Bridge International Academies Careers

What You Will Do Increase enrollment in all Bridge Community programs to meet PTR goals

• Work with program teams to develop outreach strategies aimed at increasing PTR in all classrooms across each network
• Collaborate with Managing Directors, Schools Directors, Regional Schools Director, Senior Director of Parent and Community Engagement and Program Managers to create, share and track progress on achievable daily admission goals for program team
• Design, develop and iterate upon strategic outreach events and activities that will draw awareness, interest and admissions to Bridge Community schools
• Work with Creative team to produce and distribute outreach materials (fliers, program manuals, etc)
• Work with Communications teams to secure and execute radio spots, tv spots and social media campaigns to highlight Bridge Community programs and encourage enrollment
• Using data and observation feedback, rigorously follow up with support staff to ensure strong execution of outreach events and activities at the community level; manage cascade of communication to follow up on teacher and school leader absences
• Facilitate debrief sessions with support team after each outreach and enrollment session
• Ensure successful execution of parent engagement programming throughout school year to increase community awareness and trust of program
• Achieve 90% parent attendance of enrolled parents at all parent engagement events and activities throughout the school year

Achieve 90% retention of all current pupils

• Manage teams as they execute research to determine causes of pupils attrition in schools and across network
• Work with Senior Director of Parent & Community Engagement and Regional Schools Director to analyze research and retention data; develop insights; use insights to create strategies to improve retention
• Manage team to execute on initiatives designed to increase parent satisfaction and retain pupils across terms and years
• Collaborate with Managing Directors, Schools Directors, Regional Schools Director, Senior Director of Parent and Community Engagement and Program Managers to create, share and track progress on achievable retention goals for program team
• Manage parent engagement activities (touchpoints) throughout the year to ensure positive experience and increased parent satisfaction with touchpoints
• Strengthen Co Curricular Clubs program through building community partnerships to better highlight and showcase NewGlobe’s commitment to social emotional development and growth

Meet and exceed pupil attendance KPIs in all Bridge Community programs

• Collaborate with Bridge Community and NewGlobe leadership to carefully track and monitor pupil attendance in all programs, and carefully following through to determine cause of poor attendance
• Create contextualized attendance boosting strategies for all programs; test and iterate upon various interventions designed to boost attendance
• Using data backed successful strategic interventions, design ongoing programs to ensure continued strong pupil attendance in all Bridge Community schools
• Ensure strong bill payment campaigns are designed and implemented, resulting in 100% on time tuition payments

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field, graduate degrees preferred.
• 5 years’+ experience working in education.
• 2 or more years of teaching experience with evidence of outsized student learning gains is an added advantage.
• Experience with data cleaning & analysis using Excel, experience with Stata a plus
• Experience in designing successful, data-driven marketing campaigns
• Willingness to work at different time zones and being flexible.

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 from prior experience in the country, 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 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.

About the Role

The Finance Director holds a critically important role at Bride Kenya as the executive leading all Finance activities for the programme. The role holder will provide financial leadership to build world-class financial infrastructure for the business. This includes the design and development of financial systems, policies, procedures, taking into account current and fast-growing high-volume transactions, headcount, numbers of geographically distributed business units, and the operations of a multi-country global brand.

The Finance Director is also able to dive deep into details and think at the ground level. He/she should be able to play offense as a business and systems thinker - scalability of the platform, improvements to unit economic and scaling model, global shared services - as well as defense - dealing with leakage, fraud prevention, and air-tight controls in challenging operating environments. The Director, Finance will report directly to the Managing director and is a core member of the leadership team.

What You Will Do

• Build and develop systems - set up highly efficient financial systems that take into account the highly technical payment, cash management, payroll and financial operating systems of  a geographically distributed multi-unit operation. These systems need to be highly efficient or automated, data-driven, transparent and appropriate for emerging market conditions. 
• Develop financial and non-financial key performance indicators and the appropriate reporting to assess financial and operational performance across the Company. 
• Ensure that systems and controls are in place to minimize and mitigate risk of fraud/leakage, as well as proactively audit key functions and accounts. 
• Support business growth strategies by forecasting and assessing the financial impact of key decisions.
• Maintain budgetary oversight at country-level of all departments within Kenya; work closely with managers and senior executives on budgeting and forecast processes.
• Management reporting, ensure monthly management reports for group reporting and local reporting  are submitted on time with variance analysis reports and notes.  
• Risk Management, ensure the company complies with all local statutory requirements, and insurance policies are in place to safeguard company assets. 
• Management of accounts receivables locally, ensure accuracy of pupils accounts. 
• Manage the external audit process for financial statements; ensure that the Company is in compliance with internal policies and relevant regulations. 
• Support investor reporting in provision of relevant financial information for the programme. 
• Lead the department in recruiting and retaining top staff; manage the development of staff through performance management processes.
• Other duties as assigned by the managing director or Chief Finance Officer. 

What You Should Have

• At least 10 years of experience within finance/ corporate finance, including experience as Finance Director
• Deep experience leading and managing the financial operations and strategy for a Company with hyper-growth and complex challenges across a broad scope of work
• Degree in a business/finance-related field – e.g. accounting, MBA with a record of top academic performance from a top-tier elite institution.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent and a member of a professional body in good standing
• Strong background in financial management (systems) with a thorough understanding of financial regulations.
• Experience leading Finance for fast-growth, rapidly-scaling companies is strongly preferred
• Experience working with remote finance operations - shared services is an added advantage.
• Confident and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non-finance team members within a multicultural environment
• Success operating in environments with a high risk of fraud and leakage, particularly in emerging markets.

About the Role

You will be part of a highly-trained field team monitoring team focusing on systematic school-level monitoring. We aim to impact teaching and learning, so we need to deliver high quality data to decision makers at all levels of the organisation & to our government partners. School Inspection ensures that we have accurate knowledge of what is happening in schools by auditing all school management work to ensure compliance with our school protocols.

Your work will involve visits to assigned schools to collect data using survey forms, and where possible supporting the school leader and teachers to troubleshoot problems so that learning is not disrupted at a school.

The role requires someone who has a strict code of integrity. We are looking for an energetic and motivated tech-savvy individual willing to contribute his or her skills to the team to make the School Inspection team even more successful. The Associate, School Inspection is passionate & a relentless advocate for our vision of democratising the right for all children to acquire high quality life changing education.

You will report to the school inspection manager.

What You Will Do

• Make daily visits to two or more schools (implement the route plan and cluster assignment) to conduct audits of school operations, management tools, materials and processes and populate findings through a digital survey form
• On a daily basis, record and then submit reports including recommendations, on all issues that do not comply with expected standards and respective policies that are observed while at schools to your line manager so as to ensure that parties responsible for resolving the issues act in a timely manner.
• Work together with the Support Office to ensure that school management and established monitoring systems and tools are well implemented and maintained as per desired standards at individual schools by the school leaders and teachers and teachers.
• Expect to work Monday-Saturday and in some unique cases Sunday.
• Expect to work with new requests evolving within departments as stipulated by the company.
• Additional activities: Assist other departments such as Schools, IT, Academics and Operations in data collection activities and investigations they need field support on.

What You Should Have

•  A minimum of a  2-year Diploma or field experience in data collection in lieu of a diploma.
• Tech-savvy: comfortable using smartphones, tablets, email and able to manoeuvre through mobile IT systems/applications
• Strong observational and record-keeping skills, detailed and keen to generate high-quality data (willing to clearly indicate when something is not being done correctly)
• Impartial - Able to "stand his/her ground" and not be convinced by any party (e.g. Head Teachers, teachers) to alter the audit findings/information.
• Highly flexible to dynamic work requirements and deliverables including willingness to travel and relocate within the country when required as per job requirements
• Physically capable and comfortable with working long hours at the field including visiting remote locations and exposure to seasonal outdoor conditions.
• Mature and able to work independently and effectively - supervision will largely be done from the Support Office while you operate in the field.
• Malleable learner that’s able to work under pressure and stringent deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal, organisation and communication skills - both oral and written 
• Problem solving and solution seeking skills will be essential along with a “can-do” attitude.

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.

What You Will Do

• Utilize cross functional approach to align corporate and marketing messaging and engagement.
• Influence organization’s brand positioning and engagement through cross functional coordination and cooperation.
• Allocate importance to organization’s business wide content from time to time and derive maximum exposure from finite internal and external media space/platforms.
• Be the go–to person for the media and develop strong relationships with key Technology, Education, Development and Business media.
• Lead conceptualization and production of digital, media and other relevant content.
• Assist with strategic direction, and oversight for internal and external communications planning, digital and media management, media advocacy, specific issue and crisis management
• Develop strong cross functional relationships and influence in all external facing Departments/Groups to ensure consistency of communication and information.
• Co-own internal /external communication and engagement with critical stakeholders across the organization.
• Proactively identify critical opportunities to direct/own organization’s narrative thereby averting public relations crises and building goodwill for the organization.
• Suggest alteration of strategy and tactical actions when relevant.
• Maximize efficiency of Corporate Communications budgets and media influence.
• Adapt Organization’s shared services Corporate Communications Strategy to work effectively within local context.
• Develop and implement territory specific Corporate Communications Strategy in conjunction with Organization’s Shared Services Corporate Communications Strategy.
• Provide local context and input to the Shared Services team’s development of the overall organization’s Corporate Communication Strategy.
• Analyze and measure results of communications initiatives.

What You Should Have

• Masters' degree with superior academic performance.
• Experience in East Africa of working at a senior level for political, campaigning, non-profit, or social enterprise. Experience with a multinational organization is a plus.
• Experience working within a matrixed global organization.
• Experience developing communication for a campaign or movement, rather than a product.
• Experience developing and delivering comprehensive media strategies and complex media campaigns across a range of platforms for a range of audiences.
• High profile crisis communications experience.
• Experience successfully developing and managing effective working relationships with internal and external senior stakeholders including senior journalists, broadcasters and editors.
• Highly developed and proven creative skills to lead a significant communications team with flair, innovation and new ideas.
• Able to present in person, as an organization spokesperson, to large audiences in a highly engaging way.
• Highly developed verbal, written, and oral skills to promote and represent the organization.
• Experience of offering media advice and guidance to colleagues at a senior level.
• Experience building relationships and managing external partnerships from a communications perspective.
• Knowledge of national government issues related to the provision of primary education.
• Broad grasp of Kenya and Uganda media and political context and full understanding of all media disciplines and external media environment and experience in crisis communications.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills in a communications context.
• Experience of successfully managing budgets.
• Prior experience within a fast-paced, metric driven consulting or educational organization is a bonus.

About the Role

The Teacher at Bridge is responsible for managing and overseeing the operations of a class in all respects and delivering lessons. The role holder is ultimately responsible for the smooth running of the assigned class and the academic achievement of its pupils. This job requires a strong presence around the academy and the local community. 

What You Will Do

• Instructional delivery – use our latest technology to deliver all Bridge content and lesson notes, which come fully prepared on a tablet.
• Raise pupil achievement – be accountable for the learning needs of all pupils, and do what it takes to help them improve 
• Parent relations – maintain positive relationships and close communication with parents on their child’s progression. You will engages effectively with parents be prepared to speak with parents and the community.
• Customer outreach – conduct various forms of customer outreach ranging from door-to-door canvassing to academy-hosted events in order to attract new pupils to Bridge
• Grow professionally – attend periodic re-trainings for professional development
• Academy collaboration – support other members of your team and Academy Manager, organize co-curricular activities to make Bridge a vibrant and healthy academy in your community.

What You Should Have

• Completed P1 training and have actual KNEC certificate or KNEC result slip, teachers already registered with TSC and have TSC numbers preferred.
• Completed ECD training and have an actual ECD certificate, ECD trained teachers with TSC numbers preferred.
• A K.S.C.E mean grade of C plain and above for P1 trained teachers and D+ and above for ECD trained teachers.
• Passion, love and patience for children – particularly those in the age group you want to teach.
• Proven track record of professionalism, punctuality, discipline and compliance.
• Strong English skills (speaking, reading, writing) and local language skills. 
• Open attitude to try new things and stamina for teaching a full class day and Saturday, and grit to persevere in challenging situations.
• Structure and is open to prepared teacher guides; able to follow detailed and multi-step instructions.
• Strong classroom management and pride in teaching a large class.
• Prior teaching or mentoring experience not necessary but encouraged (we will train you)
• A desire to grow personally and professionally including the ability to learn quickly and follow the policies of a multinational organization; internal promotions are encouraged
• Hobbies to share as co-curricular activities with the larger academy

About the Role

The Academy Manager is responsible for managing and overseeing the operations of the Bridge Academy in all respects. The role holder is ultimately responsible for the smooth running of the Bridge school, the academic achievement of its pupils and the management of its staff. This job requires a strong presence around the academy and the local community. 

What You Will Do

• Academy management - ensure that the academy’s financial, operational, and instructional goals are met leveraging smartphone and computer tablet technologies to manage operations and track oversight; escalate any problems immediately.
• Implement and enforce approved education and administrative policies as directed.
• Community relations - develop and maintain strong relationships with local leaders and organisations to advocate for higher-quality education and promote Bridge.
• Parent outreach - conduct various forms of customer outreach ranging from door-to-door canvassing to academy-hosted events in order to attract new pupils to Bridge.
• Customer relations - maintain positive relationships with existing families to ensure their loyalty, timely fees payments, and word-of-mouth recommendations; be accountable and ensure all parent queries are responded to in a timely manner.
• Academic oversight - Supervise and mentor teachers to ensure pupils are receiving a world class education; recruit new teachers as needed.
• Supplies and facility maintenance - ensure the academy has all of the resources needed to teach pupils, and that its environment is clean, safe, and conducive for learning; manage academy cook and person responsible for keeping academy clean.
• Financial sustainability - ensure the academy is able to grow and pay all staff salaries and vendors on time by ensuring all pupils' fees are paid on time and academy spending is on budget.
• And any other related duties that are in line with your training and competencies.

What You Should Have

• A KCSE mean grade of C plain and above for P1 trained teachers and D+ and above for ECD trained teachers.
• Bachelor of Education as an added advantage 
• A well liked teacher (or youth leader) with at least 2 years of teaching experience
• At least 2 years of experience in managing a team of 5 to 10 people as an added advantage
• Experience in fee management and enrolment and oversight of other teachers as an added advantage
• Motivated in doing something for the development of the community
• Ability to address the parents with utmost respect and solve the problems with right solutions
• Ability to handle a team and face challenges on day to day operations
• Ability to assess a team of teachers in respect to their deliverables
• Innovative with an appetite for trying out new things
• Should not be too comfortable in delegating and therefore comes with expectations of support staff
• Respected in the community with a strong connection with the community
• Should not have a criminal history 
• Should be from the dominant cultural group of the community
• Positive and never-say-die attitude, extroverted and sunny

About the Role

This role will ensure that our academy sites have appropriate planning approvals from the relevant government bodies. Work on the field working tirelessly to ensure that our processes are moving forward. 

What You Will Do

• Getting development approvals in areas assigned
• Compiling relevant documents to be attached to planning briefs before circulation
• Displaying public notices on site and lodging the planning briefs at relevant councils in areas assigned
• Following up on development applications until they have been approved by the relevant council;
• Collecting pertinent data from the field required to draft the applications;
• Collecting relevant documents and details from approving authorities required during the drafting of the development applications;
• Collecting and reporting on any relevant information that may directly or indirectly affect the planning applications.
• Establishing and maintaining a network of contact persons
• Launching NEMA reports for intended projects
• Negotiating with local authorities to grant permission to construct pending planning approvals as required
• Undertake any other specific projects as necessary.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree in urban/regional planning or environmental management related course from a top from a recognized university
• Should have a valid NEMA license
• Experience working in community development projects in low-income/informal environments
• Experience in fast-growth, rapid-scale contexts in terms of obtaining development approvals (PPA2, Approved building plans and NEMA licenses), creating a network of contacts in relevant approving authorities, resolving development disputes, etc. – e.g. A highly established physical planning firm
• Experience working with a culturally and socioeconomically diverse workforce
• High energy and enthusiasm level; willingness to do whatever necessary to get the job done
• Team player in highly selective, fast-paced, building and construction environments
• Should have prior work experience working with local authorities.
• Excellent computer skills in MS Office
• Have the flexibility to travel to different parts of the Country at short notice

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 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.

What You Will Do

• Coordinate the Management of Bridge Kenya Community Schools in collaboration with the Director of Schools.
• Supervise and Manage Community engagement strategy for building powerful community schools
• Develop, manage and supervise PTA engagement activities in day to day running of the schools
• Coordinate schools, supplies, grounds, and overall inventory management; principal supervision and mentorship; and more – including accountability measures
• Coordinate community outreach across all Bridge Kenya communities including advertisements, events, communications, programmes, promotions and more aimed at parents, community leaders and influencers, and general public
• Spend time in Bridge Kenya communities developing knowledge of the communities as well as driving customer insights and critical business issues opportunities
• Assist in recruiting, induction trainings, workshops, and on-going professional development
• Oversee the collation of information from all departments; maintain weekly trackers, supervise data collection from field; work with assigned partners and Director to increase community linkages.
• Ensure that schools` grounds and buildings are maintained, oversee repairs, and training principles.
• Develop and work with Parent Teachers Associations, Community Leaders in developing strategic plans for school management.
• Oversee activities of the department in the absence of the Director.

What You Should Have

• A Bachelor's degree in Social sciences, Community Development, Business Management or in any relevant field
• At least 5 years relevant experience, including extensive experience in operations, programme management, managing field teams, retail, sales, and customer strategy
• Prior experience working within a fast-paced, metric driven sales organization; start up or high-growth company experience preferred
• Experience working with low income customers; community engagement in the education or health sector is a major plus
• Experience planning events; interacting with major stakeholders; community, business and government
• Passion for Bridge Kenya’s vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed

What You Will Do

• Ensure revenue is captured accurately by the finance shared services team and adheres to IFRS and Bridge reporting standards.
• Subject matter expert; ensure resolution of accounting issues raised by shared services team on a timely basis.
• Drive financial period closing, preparation of monthly financial statements, reconciliations, reports and management notes with the Finance Shared Service.
• Preparation of quarterly unit profit and loss account and management notes.
• Preparation of Finance weekly dashboard and updating budget & other finance  trackers.
• Work with the legal team and ensure that academy leases are renewed on time and data shared with the shared services team.
• Uploading fees payment in pupils accounts, correcting any anomalies daily.  
• Resolution of pupils’ accounts issues on a timely basis and recommending improvements to avoid recurrence.
• Responsible for maintaining and reporting on all academy repairs, actual spend vs budget.
• Coordinate stock taking on a quarterly basis and reconciliation between actual inventory held and the Inventory ledger, investigating any variances and recommending action.
• Compiling Fixed assets listing for Insurance purposes, ensuring that additions and deletions are done on time,  communicated to the sourcing team..
• Filing of VAT & WHT returns on a monthly basis and ensures payments are made on time as per statutory requirements. 
• Ensure timely payment of payroll statutory and other deductions, for example PAYE, NSSF NHIF, Sacco etc. and filing of returns where required by Finance Shared Service.
• Assist Finance Director in managing statutory audit by ensuring that schedules are prepared on time, audit queries resolved timely in order to mitigate audit overruns.
• Assist the finance director in preparation and compilation of the East Africa operating budget.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Should Have

• A degree in accounting Finance, Economics or a related field
• CPA K with an excellent academic record.
• At least 5 years’ relevant work experience in corporate finance/accounting; performing highly rigorous, complex financial analysis.
• Good understanding of local tax requirements.
• Experience in managing a team. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics (Navision).
• Excellent skills in Microsoft office, an expert in Microsoft Excel a MUST.
• Experience working closely with a company to build financial and operating models at a deep level, particularly on a multi-country level.
• Experience in preparation of management reports, notes and presentation.
• Ability to relate well with both internal and external customers and work in teams.
• Highly innovative, with excellent analytical skills and ability to meet strict deadlines.
• High integrity, IT literacy.
• Ability to plan, manage own workload in order to meet tight deadlines
• Proactive and self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
• Confident and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non-finance team members within a multicultural environment