Bridge International Academies is the world’s largest chain of primary and pre-primary schools with more than 400 academies and 100,000 pupils in Kenya.
We democratize the right to succeed by giving families living in poverty access to the high-quality education that will allow their children to live a very different life. We leverage experts, data, and technology in order to standardize and scale every aspect of quality education delivery, from how and where academies are built to how teachers are selected and trained, and how lessons are delivered and monitored for improvement. We are vertically-integrated, tech-enabled, and on our way to profitability. Bridge expects to continue rapid expansion in Kenya, has launched operations in Uganda and will be launching in Nigeria in 2015.
Job Title: Customer Insight Associate (Research)
Customer Insight at Bridge
Research is at the core of what we do, from understanding our parents, teachers and communities to determining where new Bridge International Academies should go – the Customer Insight team ensures the achievement of company goals by providing valuable insight. We believe in focusing on operational excellence and execution – Excelling in rapid and insightful data collection and ensuring a high level of service delivery.
Overview of position
To conduct research, provide critical analysis, insight, reports and data to the rest of the company on socio-economic conditions, competitive landscapes, plot-specific research and population density.
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology, Demography, Anthropology or other related field.
Responsibilities
Conduct household interviews in slum communities
Conduct field-based exercises to calculate population density using survey and GPS equipment
Consolidate and enter data from surveys and research exercises into Excel at the office
Produce research reports based on both quantitative and qualitative observations
Participate in the design of new research studies and research tools
Experience
2+ years’ experience in conducting field research in a fast paced or rapidly growing commercial organisation with multiple departments where the use of technology solutions was a key strategy.
Experience working in slums and informal settlements.
Fluent in communicating in Pidgeon and English. Language ability in Yoruba language a big plus
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Job Role: Global Director of Teacher Training
About the Role
Bridge has intense 15-day initial trainings for teachers. In Kenya, for example, this trainings have 300 to 900 trainees. Each country has a local Training Manager, who in turn manages several full-time trainers — who run the sessions. (Occasionally there are also ‘re-trainings’ — 2 to 3 day centralized gatherings that we’ve used to good purpose, when we make big changes to curriculum). We might estimate that each of our four countries has 5 to 9 trainings next year. So roughly 25 different fifteen day trainings! The job of the director is to maximize the readiness of teachers for their first months on the job — by doing a great job of managing and improving each country’s Training Manager; using data and judgment to understand what’s working and what’s not; and inventing systems to improve every aspect of this 15-day experience. The Director also manages an Assistant Director who creates the training curriculum — the mix of sessions, of readings, and videos. This job has a ton of travel. We can be flexible on the ‘home base’ — Nairobi, Lagos, Boston, London — but the right director should love to actually be present at trainings, personally modeling excellence for the Training Managers and the Trainers as well.
What you will do
Manage the Associate Director of Teacher Training who develops the teacher training content.
Manage the Training Directors in each country, who manage the trainers and assistant trainers who execute the training program in each country.
Ensure the training program and selection activities are executed as designed by the Associate Director of Teacher Training and the Associate Director of Teacher Evaluation, Recruitment and Selection.
Collaborate with HR, IT, Administration and other teams to ensure the entire 3-week residential training runs smoothly and that the trainers and have the support they need to do their jobs well.
Work with the country directors, academic directors, innovation team, curriculum team and training managers to determine the extent to which the current training program is effectively preparing our teachers to be successful; consistently driving improvement.
Required Skills & Experience
The Director must be a data-driven individual with experience developing and managing cultures of high performance and high expectations. You must be a great academic leader who understands the difference between typical ‘blah’ teacher training and excellent training (that ultimately makes a difference for the young students).
Be a self-starter and problem-solver, who thinks three and four steps ahead. Be hard working and collaborative, with the tenacity to plow through challenges. Be both detailed and results-oriented, driven by the data that will allow us to know what is working and what isn’t working for kids. Be humble, seeking out feedback, internalizing it, and using it to get better.
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Job Title Officer, Academy Intelligence – Global
What You Will Do
Drive the global analysis behind all academy operations, informing company-wide decisions related to academy operations, staffing, product offerings, outreach methods, and organizational processes.
Building, maintain, and run weekly reports across various KPIs, countries, and cohorts; create data dashboards as needed.
Measure the impact and efficiency of new products, outreach methods, and business processes and recommend changes.
Analyse data for ad-hoc reports using data from various sources (customer insights, customer experience, academics, measurement and evaluation, business intelligence, finance, etc).
Identify and interpret patterns and trends in data, draw conclusions, and make suggestions for business improvement.
Present findings through in-person presentations and documentation, using data visualization in the form of charts, graphs, tables, lists and relational databases as much as possible.
Improve real-time data quality, validation, and analysis integrity eliminating irrelevant data as needed.
What You Should Have
Passion for Bridge’s vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed
3+ years relevant experience; background in investment banking, consulting, or other high-growth analytics preferred
Proven experience analysing large datasets, drawing your own inferences, and presenting them successfully to management using a reporting tool
Exceptional Excel and data management skills; SQL and SPSS a plus
Prior experience within a fast-paced, metric driven sales organization; start up experience preferred
Supreme organisational, critical thinking, and communications skills
Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (mathematics, statistics, computer science, etc)
How We Work
Above all else, we’re looking for ambition, organization, drive, intellect, problem solving, and respect for others. You will report to the Global Director of Academy Operations.
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