About STiR Education
We are an international NGO that is addressing the moral and economic imperative that every child, everywhere, should have a teacher who cultivates the joy of lifelong learning. At a practical level, that means we support governments to reignite intrinsic motivation in teachers and local officials, through teacher networks. Our vision is a world where teachers love teaching and children love learning. In our sixth full year of operations, we are working with 200,000 teachers and 6 million children across 70 districts in India and Uganda.
Our Model
We achieve this through a five year learning partnership with an education system, where we align all levels of the education system (officials, teachers and children) around the goal of increasing intrinsic motivation.
Practically, this means that teachers undergo monthly network meetings with about 20 to 30 local peers. Through these meetings they’re supported to develop their practice in areas ranging from effective questioning to creating warm but orderly classroom routines – all designed to create a more effective relationship between the teacher and child. In doing so they develop a sense of autonomy (the sense they can change things), mastery (sense of getting better as a professionals) and purpose (reconnecting emotionally with their peers and students) – the key drivers of intrinsic motivation.
District officials undergo a training and coaching programme that motivates and supports them to prioritise, run and monitor the teacher networks and a close partnership with the state or national government enables the government to align this intrinsic motivation approach within their priorities, structures and systems.
The approach is run by the government from day one and after about five years of partnering with an education system we hope to have embedded a culture of improvement at all levels for the system to continue to strengthen itself. We typically allocate one member of our own staff per district to train, energise and coach the district officials running the approach, and a small team at the national or state level.
Our Values
How we approach our work is as important as what we do and our core values guide the way:
Humility – We don’t have all the answers upfront.
Ownership – We empower each other with high expectations & support.
Openness – We will listen, learn and improve, and lead through obstacles.
Purpose – We’re united by a shared vision we’ll build & achieve together.
The opportunity – Regional Manager, Kampala
STiR’s Regional Manager is responsible for the effective and high quality delivery of the STiR Programme across multiple districts. This will be done through high quality leadership and management of a team of Programme Leads where you will ensure a own and drive collaborative, values led culture of excellence.
Role & responsibilities
The Regional Manager will report to the Country Director &will work closely with the other Regional Manager. They will manage a staff of around 6 Programme Leads as direct reports.The Regional Manager will:
Lead, manage and develop your team of Programme Leads
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Deeply understand STIR’s values, vision and priorities for Uganda and create a culture of excellence and team environment in line with the STIR values.
➔Provide high quality support to enable ProgrammeLeads to make good decisions about how to run the programme effectively in their Districts
➔Provide consistent and focused line management focused on achieving our shared purpose of increased teacher intrinsic motivation and children’s learning
➔Coach and develop your team of programme leads to optimise performance and culture
Ensure that the STIR programme is planned and delivered effectively, on time and in budget across your Districts.
➔Support teams to build excellent project plans that are fully aligned with the STIR’s and the
government priorities and ensure they are enacted
➔Set-up and use tools to monitor progress and use these to inform discussions with the team
➔Lead a strong focus on maintaining the STIR spirit and very high quality in all elements of the programme.
➔Write clear and succinct reports to communicate to all relevant stakeholders effectively
Support your teams in building senior level Ministry of Education &Sports, District, Primary Teachers’ Colleges, Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) and Association of Secondary School Head Teachers (ASSHU) and other NGO relationships
➔Provide a clear view of the ‘big picture’ of the STIR-Government-Union partnership and how it will support the District to achieve their, and the country’s, overall goals for education
➔Support teams when relationships are difficult or where we are struggling to gain traction
and act as a back up to Programme Leads when they are unable to attend crucial meetings
➔ Act as a broker between senior level officials to share learning and influence behavior
Work closely with the M&E, design, people and admin and finance teams to ensure that all elements of STIR’s organisational needs are taken into account in the running of the programme in your region
➔Ensure the learning from your region is used by your Programme Leads to adapt implementation in their Districts and that learning is shared across the organisation
➔Provide strong ownership and take responsibility for effective financial planning and management for yourself, your team and STIR Uganda
➔Provide strong feedback and input into the design of the programme
Play a leading role in the development of an overall culture at STIR that is in line with our organisational values
➔ Model professionalism and integrity at all times.
➔ Ensure STIR’s resources are used as effectively and efficiently as possible managing and checking funds and accountabilities to ensure all are accurate and value for money
➔ Make sure that all relationships you build are in the STIR spirit and in line with our values
➔ Model ‘Growth Mindset’ at all times- show that improvement is always possible
Required skills, experience & travel
The Regional Manager position is based in Muyenga,Kampala. There will be significant in-country travel required.
➔At least 6 years of work experience
➔Experience leading and managing teams
➔Flexibility to adapt to a new work environment and culture.
➔Strategic thinker who plans ahead and sees the bigger picture
➔Strong identification with STIR values
➔ Ability to communicate very effectively in written and spoken English
➔ Ability to create a culture of high expectations and learning
➔ Excellent data analyst and data based decision maker
➔ Excellent influencing skills
➔ Excellent planning and project management Skills
➔Able to build strong relationships and connections with people of all levels of seniority
More Information
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