District Coordinator – Early Childhood Education

Master Academies is a social enterprise with a mission to provide quality and affordable early childhood education (ECE) and care to every child anywhere. There is a major shortage of preschools in Zambia and we believe one of the best ways to increase access for families is to grow supply through a network of preschools managed by qualified teachers. For example, the percentage of grade 1 entrants with preschool experience in 2016 was 29.8% (Ministry of General Education Bulletin, 2016). The aim of early childhood education and care is to provide developmental support and care for children in their formative years so that they can acquire the skills necessary for future learning and success in school. This success is expected to benefit the social and economic development of society at large. Master Academies is building a new ECE learning experience aimed at empowering preschool providers with assistance on administrative and technology support to manage their students, teachers, parents, and their school.

Main responsibilities

You will be responsible for mentoring new child care providers as they create their programs and environments, and helping existing child care programs to improve their processes, programs, and environments. You will follow a set process which includes:

• Discuss program setup, philosophy/curriculum, age groups served
• Guide setup of physical environment to ensure creation of intentionally constructed, high-quality ECE environments
• Administration of Master Academies quality assessment tool
• Provide support to Master Academies on ECE and business-related questions

Requirements

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in ECE
• 2+ years’ experience working in a Child Care environment
• Experience coaching or training ECE professionals
• Experience with both the quality and business side of ECE
• Experience creating high-quality early learning environments
• Comfort using technology to communicate (WhatsApp, Hangouts, etc.) as well as to guide your work (Google Sheets, email)
• Ability to travel a lot
• A love for children, families, teachers, and great/high-quality ECE environments!
• Resident of the above towns an added advantage

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