Chief Learning & Teaching Officer

Do you get goosebumps when you hear about the exceptional successes of a learner? Are you excited by incredibly hard challenges? Do you believe we can exceed the educational quality of premium international schools with a fifth of their budget? Are you ready to build and scale an educational model to serve 5,000 learners today and more than 20,000 tomorrow? 

Then … let’s talk: we are looking for a fantastic individual, obsessed with achieving results, looking forward to co-build solutions with people of very different backgrounds, and able to step out of their comfort zone to lead “Learning and Teaching” at Enko Education. 

About the role

As our Chief Learning and Teaching Officer (L&T), you build the Enko Education educational model to achieve maximal educational outcomes for each and every one of our 5,000 learners ( 20,000 tomorrow) and make our African International Schools distinctive. Responsibilities include:

• System: design systemic solutions to the largest challenges by fine-tuning and rolling out the Enko Education model.
• People: achieve the highest level of teaching staff by attracting, developing and retaining talented individuals.
• Planning & performance: achieve performance and instil a culture of learning and improvement by setting-up objectives, resources, monitoring tools, and rituals.

You build on the world’s and the group’s best practices, and position Enko Education at the forefront of education in Africa. You ensure the best relationships with external accreditation bodies (IB, Cambridge etc). You make sure L&T is celebrated in our group. 

Reporting to the Group’s Chief Executive Officer, you are part of the Executive Committee and make sure that L&T is at the core of every decision taken. You are responsible for the L&T group budget and supervise the L&T central team.
 

Illustration of objectives 

• Illustration on “performance and planning”: 
  • Support Heads of Schools in producing School action plans to maximize learner outcomes and roll out our African International School model 
  • Implement academic performance monitoring systems for learners at all grades, feeding school action plans
  • Define budget guidelines to ensure adequate resources are allocated to L&T in schools and in the group 
• Illustration on “people”: 
  • Create, develop and manage the central education team
  • Develop active learning communities across the Enko network, addressing our 500 teachers (2000 tomorrow) to enhance L&T quality in the classrooms
  • Implement effective, relevant, motivating teacher career tracks and development opportunities (including cross schools exchanges)
  • Build a pipeline of excellent heads of schools able to run Enko Schools for 4 years 
• Illustration on “system”: 
  • Design an effective Foundation Year Programme to prepare students for the IB Diploma Programme
  • Create a recognised and accepted Enko High School Diploma (and clarify guidance on Diploma Courses students) - with international accreditation 

Ideal candidate 

As an ideal candidate, you demonstrate

• A strong academic legitimacy: you have academic credentials or the background to be seen as a pedagogical leader within and outside of Enko Education. 
• A high level of emotional intelligence: to lead, inspire, and unite a variety of stakeholders … to co-build with the teams and give back work and credit when appropriate.
• System design abilities: you think scale. From individual problems, you build solutions for all schools.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, to synthesize complex problems in a crisp way while adapting your communication to various types of audiences. 
• Analytical mindset to build quick and accurate fact-based diagnostics on what needs to be maintained, stopped, or improved. 
• Agility: you are able to adapt, to connect topics, to move from down-to-earth concrete challenges in a classroom to strategic challenges in a boardroom
• Self-drive:  capacity to push an agenda, solve problems by finding creative solutions.  Result and solution-driven. 
• An exploratory mindset: you have the humility to be in a constant learning mode - whether to look for best practices that may exist in one of our classrooms … or in the rest of the world.
   

Additional details (location, timing, travels…)

• Full-time position 
• Timing: Successful candidates should start ideally by July 2023.
• Speaking English is a must; Speaking French and/or Portuguese is a plus.
• Knowledge of the IB Curriculum (member of IBEN) is a plus. 
• Capacity to travel to our schools is a must. Probably 2 to 3 months of travel per year.
• Living/relocating in an Enko Education city (ideally Johannesburg) is a plus (but not a requirement)
• Enko Education is an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to an inclusive and diverse workforce and valuing difference.
   

About Enko Education 

Enko Education is a fast-growing group of K12 African International Schools, increasing access to the world’s best universities for learners across Africa.

Our African International Schools equip our learners with African Roots, Global Wings and a Future-Oriented mindset. They lead to globally recognized and sought-after qualifications (IB, A-level…) while charging a fraction of the fees charged by other international schools in Africa. 

Furthermore, Enko learners are supported in their higher education applications through our university guidance programme, to select the right universities and then secure both admission and financing for their studies.

5,000 learners study in Enko Education schools today. Our network includes 14 schools across 9 African countries. We became the largest group of IB schools on the continent. We aim to exceed 20,000 learners in at least 15 African countries over the next five years. Enko Education closed a series B in May 2022 and is funded by international institutions such as Proparco, Adiwale, I&P, OikoCredit, BIO, LiquidAfrica, Adiwale partners.

Enko Education schools are committed to child safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people and expect all staff, volunteers, and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre employment checks will be undertaken.