Hilltop group of schools is a set of three privately owned schools located in Mombasa County, Kenya. The three schools encompass both primary and secondary school sections. The school has been in existence for the past twenty years.
We are currently looking for a School Manager whom will be overseeing the day to day operations of all the three schools and will be reporting directly to the Board of Managers (B.O.M) chaired by the director of the school.
Job summary/objective
The role of the manager will be to provide leadership to both the teaching and non-teaching staff so as to ensure a smooth running of the school’s activities on a daily basis for the long-term.
Duties and responsibilities
? Manage the school’s administrative function
? Ensuring the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all
? Build a strong and cohesive culture that is supported by effective systems and structures
? Setting targets and goals for school staff through a participative process
? Conducting annual reviews based on standards of leadership, teaching and learning in specific areas of responsibility
? Manage the maintenance of the school buses including sourcing for their spare-parts and supervising their repairs
? Review the daily fee collection and ensure that the institution is financially stable and able to meet its obligations i.e. bank loan, staff salaries, suppliers
? Audit the schools accounts so as to seal any revenue leakages
? Work with the schools heads and accounting department in preparing an annual budget and ensure that it is strictly adhered to
? Attend and sit in ALL B.O.M meetings which are held once every term
? Monitoring coverage of the syllabus quality of teaching and effectiveness of learning outcomes
? Ensuring teachers and support staff have all necessary working resources required in undertaking their responsibilities
? Ensure that the schools meet provisions in its strategic plan
? Ensure that the schools meet all the regulations in the Ministry of Education
? Provide Spiritual Leadership to staff and students
? Work closely with senior school management to achieve high levels of team spirit and synergy
? Ensure that all recruitment, appraisal, staff development, grievance, disciplinary and redundancy policies and procedures comply with legal and regulatory requirements
? Manage the maintenance of the school site and property including the purchase and repair of all furniture and fittings
? Ensure the health & safety policy is implemented at all times, put into practice and is subject to review and assessment at regular intervals or as situations change
? Building effective relationships with parents, education partners and external stakeholders
? Assist in the automation of a majority of the schools functions
