As the Area Education Manager, you will be responsible for providing academic support to schools in your assigned area and ensuring the delivery of quality education in line with TCF policies and procedures. Your main duties will include:

Overall, Area Leadership:

• Ensuring improvement in SSR, fee collection enhancement, and day-to-day fleet management.
• Being responsible and accountable for the entire academic leadership and management of schools and the entire cohort of principals.
• Managing the Area Administrator to perform overall administrative duties and academic data management (analysis, verification, and preservation).

Relationship Management:

• Maintaining liaison with donor-on-donor related education activities where required.
• Maintaining communication with community members and encouraging the use of community resources where possible to facilitate schools.
• Encouraging principals to keep strong communication with parents and occasionally attend parent-student meetings.
• Maintaining communication with other AEMs to ensure a strong collaborative working environment, seeking feedback, as well as sharing best practices to support overall region development.

Quality of Principal:

• Working with the RHR Manager in recruitment of quality local principals (including participation in Assessment Centers).
• Being responsible for overall strengthening of principal cohort to improve principal quality.
• Ensuring full participation in PQI visits and monitoring regular academic feedback is provided to the principals (including formally through appraisals) and monitor continuous improvement throughout the year. Where applicable, supporting the principal through PIP.

Quality of Teacher:

• Working with the principals in outreach and recruitment of quality local teachers, especially in difficult locations.
• Being in charge of approving teacher transfers and promotion recommendations.
• Being responsible for overall strengthening of teacher cohort to improve teacher quality (content through TCT and pedagogy).
• Conducting a minimum of one classroom observation on every visit and ensuring consistency in feedback.

Quality of Schools:

• Planning and developing strategies for area improvement (through AIP) clearly linked to whole school and area improvement.
• Developing a clear action plan for struggling schools in the area, implementing it, and regularly following up to ensure improvement.