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Are you interested in supporting and developing amazing social entrepreneurs running great early learning programmes?

We are recruiting for SmartStart coaches in Emfuleni Local Municipality.

WHAT IS SMARTSTART?

SmartStart is an early learning social franchise. It is delivered by a network of trained and licensed practitioners who implement the same evidence-based programme to help ensure children have the foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond.

SmartStart has an adaptable daily routine for 3 and 5 year-olds, which can be delivered in playgroups, home and community-based ECD programmes and ECD classrooms. The programme is supported by operational resources and play materials, licensing and quality assurance processes, and a network of ‘Clubs’ that provide peer support, and importantly a great coach!

SmartStart coaches are mentors to our network of early learning practitioners (SmartStarters) who run their own independent preschool social enterprises.

  • SmartStart coaches recruit new SmartStarters
  • They inspire and motivate new SmartStarters to start their programmes and problem solve with them as they operate to make impactful and sustainable social enterprises
  • They license and quality assure all the SmartStart practitioners
  • Build and encourage the SmartStart clubs (networks of SmartStarters)
  • Drive and create understanding of and demand for quality early learning
  • And importantly to coach and develop SmartStarters to gain new skills and capacities.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for self-motivated and driven people to be SmartStart coaches. Ideally you should have the following:

  • Educated to tertiary level preferable (social work / community development degree is added benefit).
  • At least a year’s experience in a coaching/mentoring/ facilitation role and/or management /coordinating role.
  • Three years’ experience of ECD or a closely related sphere.
  • A valid driver’s license and own transport.

Desirable:

  • Experience in the non-profit and/or development sector.

Competencies:

  • Ability to maintain effective quality assurance systems, and to collect and manage qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Ability to manage others effectively, to motivate, to elicit high performance and to facilitate personal and professional development in a supportive way.
  • Ability to work independently, problem-solve, be flexible and take the initiative when presented with challenges.
  • Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the SmartStart network and beyond, and to work as part of a cohesive and supportive team, including the ability to work effectively with people from different backgrounds.

Skills:

  • Excellent organisational and planning skills – including demonstrable experience of operationalising appropriate systems and procedures, and of records management.
  • Excellent management skills – including the ability to fulfil reporting, budgeting and other requirements, and to  ensure compliance with internal policies and standards.
  • Good English written and oral communication skills.
  • Proficiency in MS Office – including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook and in internet search and use.
  • Fluency in the dominant language of the area in which a coach is needed.

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Imagine a young child with a vibrant love of play and learning. A child who is curious and asks questions about the world around her. A child who loves listening to stories. Imagine a child who shows self-control and can wait her turn. A child who is kind and cares for others. Imagine an expressive, creative, confident child who has mastered some of the social, emotional, cognitive and physical skills that give her the power to succeed in life.This is the kind of child SmartStart aims to develop. We believe every child in South Africa deserves the opportunity to reach their potential in this way.We also understand the critical role played by quality early learning in the first 5 years of a child’s life. This is what helps to create a happy, well-adjusted child who will be ready for primary school. We are driven by the knowledge that, with even a small amount of good stimulation, children are building the foundation they need to thrive at school.There are currently one million children aged 3-5 years who do not have access to early learning programmes. This is the challenge that we are turning into an opportunity, so that children across South Africa – from an early age – have a better chance of success.SmartStart was founded in May 2015 to ensure that access to high quality early stimulation becomes a reality. We are starting with the poorest 40% of children aged 3 and 4 years old.We provide an effective and affordable solution that enables unemployed women and men to run their own SmartStart programmes, and that empowers parents and communities to seek out and support these quality programmes.We are also resourceful, collaborative and ambitious. This is what we seek from the women and men who we train and license, and from all the players in our network model.

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Are you interested in supporting and developing amazing social entrepreneurs running great early learning programmes?

We are recruiting for SmartStart coaches in Emfuleni Local Municipality.

WHAT IS SMARTSTART?

SmartStart is an early learning social franchise. It is delivered by a network of trained and licensed practitioners who implement the same evidence-based programme to help ensure children have the foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond.

SmartStart has an adaptable daily routine for 3 and 5 year-olds, which can be delivered in playgroups, home and community-based ECD programmes and ECD classrooms. The programme is supported by operational resources and play materials, licensing and quality assurance processes, and a network of ‘Clubs’ that provide peer support, and importantly a great coach!SmartStart coaches are mentors to our network of early learning practitioners (SmartStarters) who run their own independent preschool social enterprises.

  • SmartStart coaches recruit new SmartStarters
  • They inspire and motivate new SmartStarters to start their programmes and problem solve with them as they operate to make impactful and sustainable social enterprises
  • They license and quality assure all the SmartStart practitioners
  • Build and encourage the SmartStart clubs (networks of SmartStarters)
  • Drive and create understanding of and demand for quality early learning
  • And importantly to coach and develop SmartStarters to gain new skills and capacities.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for self-motivated and driven people to be SmartStart coaches. Ideally you should have the following:

  • Educated to tertiary level preferable (social work / community development degree is added benefit).
  • At least a year’s experience in a coaching/mentoring/ facilitation role and/or management /coordinating role.
  • Three years’ experience of ECD or a closely related sphere.
  • A valid driver’s license and own transport.

Desirable:

  • Experience in the non-profit and/or development sector.

Competencies:

  • Ability to maintain effective quality assurance systems, and to collect and manage qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Ability to manage others effectively, to motivate, to elicit high performance and to facilitate personal and professional development in a supportive way.
  • Ability to work independently, problem-solve, be flexible and take the initiative when presented with challenges.
  • Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the SmartStart network and beyond, and to work as part of a cohesive and supportive team, including the ability to work effectively with people from different backgrounds.

Skills:

  • Excellent organisational and planning skills – including demonstrable experience of operationalising appropriate systems and procedures, and of records management.
  • Excellent management skills – including the ability to fulfil reporting, budgeting and other requirements, and to  ensure compliance with internal policies and standards.
  • Good English written and oral communication skills.
  • Proficiency in MS Office – including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook and in internet search and use.
  • Fluency in the dominant language of the area in which a coach is needed.
 2022-02-16

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