Columba Leadership Ongoing Recruitment – Share & Apply

Columba Leadership is an NGO that activates youth enterprise and employment by helping young people transcend their personal circumstances and offers meaningful social impact to all investors.

Job Title: School Engagement Officer
Job Location: Bloemfontein, Free State

Responsibilities:

• Conduct area research
• Conduct principal information sessions to engage principals
• Enable youth engagement in partner schools: facilitate principal engagement together with the provincial manager
• Conduct educator sessions to engage educators
• Conduct learner sessions to engage learners
• Communicate with principals, educators and learners on an ongoing basis
• Stakeholder engagement with the department of education, investors, government representatives at a high level
• Implement monitoring and evaluation plan with support from monitoring and evaluation team
• Prepare and submit reports to provincial manager
• Transcribe recorded interviews
• Contribute to provincial reports for investors – identifying and sharing positive stories and lessons learned
• Provide corporate engagement support during school visits
• Activate and mobilise school clusters: facilitation of cluster sessions
• Involvement in youth connexion events

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Psychology or a Bachelor of Education Degree or a related Degree
• Coaching / mentoring qualification will be an added advantage
• Minimum of five years’ experience working in schools at a principal and educator level
• Must be in possession of a valid driver’s licence
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word. Competence in Microsoft Projects advantageous
• Report writing skills essential
• Proficiency in written and verbal English and IsiXhosa
• Interpersonal skills, have the ability to take initiative and be a team player as well as the ability to work independently
• Adaptability and ability to work in a fluid environment
• Planning skills
• Administratively strong
• Ability to work as a thinking and support partner to the school stakeholders (principals, educators and learners) and will play a key role in monitoring of progress, evaluating results and reporting
• Be a passionate, engaged, confident, assertive person with interpersonal skills and a really solid work ethic

To apply, submit your CV applications, together with a letter of motivation to [email protected]

Regret only suitable candidates will be contacted.

Should you not be contacted within two weeks of the closing date, consider the position filled.

Application Deadline: 16th November, 2018