School Administrator (for Qualified Primary Teachers Only) – Rukundo Preparatory School (RPS)

Job Title:  School Administrator (Primary Teachers Only)

Organisation: Rukundo Preparatory School (RPS)

Duty Station: Kabale District, Western Uganda

Contract type: Contract, Full-time

 

About Rukundo International (RI):

Rukundo meaning ‘love” in the local Rukiga language, we are a non-profit, tax-exempt entity headquartered in Maryland USA and a registered International NGO in Kabale, Uganda since 2014.  Our mission is to empower Kabale, Uganda’s most vulnerable populations through educational and economic opportunities that create pathways to self-sustaining communities.

 

Rukundo Preparatory School (RPS) is the flagship program for Rukundo International, providing ECD and Primary education to over 200 children and works as a home base for our community centre in Kyanamira. RPS aims to nurture world-changers through the power of high-quality education, love in action, and humble service.

 

Job Summary:   RI seeks a qualified School Administrator to facilitate smooth and stable implementation of RPS programs, effective communication, timely reporting, and to ensure alignment of RPS activities with overall RI objectives and Mission. The RPS Administrator will manage all logistics, planning and reporting processes for the school. As part of the teaching team, you will also be expected to teach in the classroom and complete all other teacher activities for assigned class(es).   The Administrator will also provide additional support to the RPS Head Teacher, create a positive and appropriate learning environment through proper management of RPS, and bridge all communication, planning, and reporting gaps with RI community development Programs. The Administrator will manage RPS budgets, handle all RPS logistics, prepare program reports, manage RPS databases, and act as a point of contact for RI’s community development programs and special projects.

 

This role will report to the RI Uganda Deputy Executive Director with dotted lines to the RPS Head teacher for deliverables under teaching duties.  As part of the RI Uganda’s Management team, the RPS School Administrator will be expected to act as a role model for the organization’s positive culture, promoting the Mission and living the values of RI on a daily basis.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Specific duties:

• Develop and coordinate annual, quarterly and monthly work plans for RPS to ensure timely completion of activities and high-quality deliverables consistent with the work plan.
• Develop and manage RPS budgets to make sure all expenses are within budget, including preparing financial requisitions, purchase requests for supplies, and preparing monthly financial and inventory reports.
• Continuously update and ensure compliance of RPS staff with RI & RPS policies.
• Manage the RPS database by providing enrolment data for new learners and working with RI’s Executive Assist to continuously update data for existing learners.
• Manage school performance data. This includes, but is not limited to, classroom observations, holiday package returns, daily learner attendance data, examinations results, etc to ensure high-quality data is collected and submitted in time.
• Prepare monthly Program reports for RPS, including provision of content (photographs, videos, success stories, etc.) for U.S-based partnerships and for use in newsletters, media releases, e-news, and fundraising campaigns.
• Respond and fulfil RPS staff requests for supplies and any other logistics.
• Supervise the RPS children’s meals to make sure they are served according to the menu and on time.
• Participate in procurement activities and recommend ways to optimise costs of running RPS, including inventory sourcing, and storage and use, on an ongoing basis.
• Conduct lessons for the assigned class(es) and complete all other related activities consistent with providing a high-quality education to our learners.
• Participate in all CPD training provided to the teaching staff at RPS.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Primary Education or in any other related field.
• Must be a qualified Primary teacher.
• A suitable candidate must have experience working as a Primary school teacher as well as successful experience as a Deputy Head teacher, Director of Studies or Senior Manager/Administrator of a school.

Desired skills and personal attributes

• Appreciates the importance of planning and tracking progress, is process oriented, organised, and pays attention to detail.
• High level of responsibility and problem-solving skills.
• Great communicator, collaborative spirit, open to feedback, and interested in learning and implementing better ways of doing things.
• Culturally adaptable and willing to adjust to diversity in the working environment and to a rural community dynamic.
• Loves to work with data.
• Has basic computer skills in MS Word and MS Excel, Google Drive (RI will provide further on-job training, if required).
• Committed to and deeply invested in the Mission of Rukundo International.

 

We highly encourage suitable candidates from different regions of Uganda to apply for this role because we love to have a diverse team.

 

Starting date: January 2024

Deadline for applications: October 27^th 2023

 

How to Apply:

Please email your Cover Letter, C.V and academic transcripts to recruiting@rukundointernational.org by October 27^th, 2023.

**PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT A QUALIFIED PRIMARY TEACHER**!

 

NB: We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, we will review applications on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Deadline: 27^th October 2023