Overview
About the job
As our MsingiTek Digital Education Supervisor you will oversee up to 10 schools, ensuring the long-term success of the program. You’ll maintain functional hardware, ensure sessions run smoothly and on time, and provide every learner with their intended weekly minutes of learning (“time on task”). Your work will build the ownership and capacity of headteachers and teachers to sustain and enhance the program, boosting learner attendance and enrollment. Success will be measured by maintaining or improving time on task, and functional equipment, as ownership transitions fully to the schools, ensuring lasting impact.
Your Responsibilities:
● Equipment and Infrastructure: Ensure the installation and completion of hardware, software,
infrastructure, and security improvements in all your schools by the program launch date.
● Teacher Training: Host sessions to onboard schools on the program and thereafter on a need basis
to identify best practices for equipment and session management; foster ownership of practices to
minimize breakage and maximize learning (time on task).
● Community Sensitization: Conduct initial and ongoing sensitization efforts to engage and educate
the community about the program, fostering their support and ensuring long-term sustainability
(such as equipment ownership and care, student attendance).
● Data Reporting: Guarantee 100% of tablets report data accurately and on time. Quickly flag and
resolve any issues with non-reporting tablets to maintain data integrity.
● Data Usage: Use collected data to deliver actionable feedback to stakeholders during meetings.
Teach and empower stakeholders to value and use this data effectively and independently.
● School Oversight: For the first few months, visit each school every week, and after stabilizing at
least every 2 weeks, increasing visits if performance lags. Provide daily remote follow-ups when necessary to address challenges or to celebrate successes.
● Problem Solving: Involve ward counterparts (WEOs) and, when appropriate, district officials to
address challenges through joint problem-solving and shared ownership.
Your Qualifications: These are some of the experiences and achievements we value!
● Bachelor’s Degree in Community Development, Education, or related field.
● >3 years of experience in community engagement and adult behaviour change initiatives.
● Experience working in rural communities, with familiarity with rural community dynamics.
● Experience working collaboratively with government counterparts at the ward/district level.
● Experience implementing or supporting digital or technology-based programs.
● Experience engaging with teachers and head-teachers.
● Experience with data and MEAL processes.
Your Skills: These are some of the skills we’ll either test for or help you build as part of your role.
● Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to build trust, foster ownership, and sustain participation with
diverse stakeholders in rural and resource-constrained settings.
● Technical Problem-Solving: Skill in troubleshooting/maintaining basic hardware & software functionality.
● Data Aptitude: Ability to interpret data, identify trends, and provide strategic recommendations.
● Capacity Building: Skilled in mentoring adults to adopt new behaviors, practices, and tools.
● Collaboration / Facilitation: Ability to foster productive relationships and unite diverse stakeholders
to facilitate joint problem-solving and shared ownership.
● Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
Your Traits:
● Relentless Passion: You bring contagious energy and commitment, making a difference every day.
● High Standards: You strive for excellence; you believe only your best effort creates lasting impact.
● Integrity in Action: You do what’s right, even when it’s hard, and earn trust through your actions.
● Leading with Humility: You listen to and value others, believing you can learn from them.
● Growth Mindset: You believe everyone is on a journey of learning and improving, including yourself.
● Better, Together: You genuinely believe that our strength as a team lies in our difference
