Curriculum Specialists

Client Profile: An International educational organization that delivers high-quality education for minimal costs to the impoverished communities.

Job Title: Curriculum Specialists

Reporting To: Director

Job Location: Nairobi

Role Overview: to ensure delivery of quality education by developing and researching curricular materials.

Our client has developed Version 1.0 of an extremely detailed and rigorous instructional approach to enable a broad universe of teachers to be extremely effective in the classroom, overseen and managed by a school manager implementing a specialized support and oversight system, monitored and audited by a field-based operations team from headquarters.

Critical elements of the International instructional approach include:

• A Direct Instruction or scripted curriculum (word for word, action-by-action scripts for every lesson in the classroom) based on the national syllabus
• A continuous assessment program integrated with the curriculum, using specialized assessment recording forms and easy to follow rules for when teachers should continue on to new material or remediate on previous lessons
• An integrated tutoring and enrichment program to ensure that students don’t fall behind, and those who are ahead of the curve are constantly engaged.

Main Tasks and Duties:

The Curriculum Specialists will be responsible for researching and developing curriculum materials, including:

• Schemes of work
• Detailed lesson plans
• Direct Instruction scripts
• Student exercises
• Student assessments.
• Other related materials.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Education

Technical Skills:

• Writing education instructional materials including lesson plans, curriculum, schemes of work, etc
• Excellent ability to interpret the 8-4-4 syllabus
• Excellent writing skills, especially in the English Language.

Computer Skills: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Length of Experience:

• 5 plus years of experience as a primary school teacher.
• 3-5 years of experience writing curriculum/instructional materials

Personality Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal skills; Team player
• Good analytical skills.
• High initiative; Proactive personality; High self drive.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision; Works well under pressure.
• Ability to accept feedback and to make continuous revisions to ensure the best possible product.
• Ability to meet deadlines without fail.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.

How to Apply:

Interested, suitable candidates should forward their applications enclosing copies of their detailed CVs to the following address:

Adecco Employment Services
Email: info@adeccokenya.com

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline Date: 09 July 2011