Director, School Inspection at EKOEXCEL

EKOEXCEL is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing recruitment to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director, School Inspection

Location: Lagos

 About EKOEXCEL: The EKO Excellence in Child Education and Learning programme is LASG’s statewide program to transform ECCDE and Primary education in all Lagos State government schools, bringing 21st Century education that is child-centred and enabled by modern practices and technology. The programme is designed to empower and support public school teachers and to increase learning outcomes for children in the classroom. The programme represents the largest ever investment in Lagos state’s basic education system. It is bringing equity to quality basic education, and in doing so removing the economic limitations for the hundreds of thousands of pupils in the State’s public primary school system.

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree from a top-tier university with an excellent academic record.
• Quantitative Undergraduate Degrees are preferred.
• Team management experience –  to direct, mentor, and oversee field associates within the School Inspection department, you should possess effective leadership, coordination, and motivation skills.
• Process enhancement skills – to find ways to streamline processes and boost efficiency, you should have some knowledge of process improvement and enhancement.
• Organization skills – to successfully direct and oversee all School Inspection procedures and coordinate production processes you should have strong organization skills.
• Excellent communication skills (writing and speaking), which enable you to communicate complex ideas effectively to people at all levels in the organisation. You will need to provide reports to production managers and business leaders to influence decision-making.
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills. You need to be able to see patterns, be a fast thinker and a good decision maker
• Advanced MS Excel/spreadsheets skills, and mastery of presentation/reporting tools such as MS Word/Google docs & MS Powerpoint/Google slides
• Strong willed, a fast learner and able to effect changes fast. You should be able to flourish in dynamic, ambiguous environments, to produce high quality work with very short deadlines, effectively prioritize work among multiple competing demands, and adapt to unexpected work demands
• Bonus – previous experience in School Inspection/audit, including designing surveys; experience working with government; experience in extreme growth situations and dealing with complexity; worked/studied in a developing country, and/or experience implementing data collection projects. Experience with data collection tools such as KoBo Toolbox, and other statistical analysis tools such as R, Stata, Python is also a bonus.

 How to Submit Your Application

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Application Closing Date
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