Temporary Kindergarten Teacher at Kibera School for Girls
Shining Hope for Communities has developed an innovative, community driven model to combat intergenerational cycles of poverty and gender inequality in Nairobi’s Kibera slum.
We link free schools for girls to accessible social services for all. In August 2009, we founded The Kibera School for Girls, the first entirely free school for girls in Kibera.
The second step of our model provides the Community at large with tangible benefits through a community center adjacent to the school.
The unique services we offer include sanitary ecotoilets, a library and cyber café, gender violence support, microenterprise for HIV positive women, a youth center, access to water, business and literacy training, and hundreds of jobs.
We also operate the Johanna Justin Jinich Community Clinic, which specializes in primary care and maternal health.
By investing in health and economic success through a school for girls, we demonstrate that benefiting women benefits the whole community, cultivating a community ethos that makes women respected members of society.
Shining Hope for Communities invites applications from suitably qualified applicants to fill the following vacant position:
Kindergarten Teacher
Location: Kibera
Reports to: Kibera School for Girls Headmistress
Hours: Monday – Friday, 7.30am to 5pm
Duration: Temporary (3 Months)
Primary Purpose:
The teacher’s primary responsibility is to ensure the success of each student as detailed in the KSG’s Mission statement. The job includes general instruction and management of a classroom.
About Kibera School for Girls:
The Kibera School for Girls is the first free primary school for girls in the Kibera slum. The school strives to empower the young women of Kibera to imagine and then enact their own solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems by providing a superior education.
The Kibera School for Girls creates lifelong learners who take with them the skills to change their own lives and feel a responsibility to give back to others.
School Mission:
- The Kibera School for Girls provides an education rooted in principles of tolerance, creativity, and selfdirected learning. The school provides a supportive environment for young women to realize their full potentials through a strong arts program, a focus on literacy, a science and math program, and opportunities for students to find and learn about their own passions.
- The Kibera School for Girls was founded based on recognition of a need for educational reform in Kenya and a desperate need for empowering educational spaces for women. By providing all female role models, employing talented and passionate female teachers and staff from Kibera, and serving the neediest students the school is a beacon of hope.
- We believe in teaching children that anything is possible with hard work and education, in classrooms where children learn at their own pace, and in creating an environment that is challenging, engaging, and creative.
- Through principles of creativity, nondiscrimination, free education, and communal and parental engagement The Kibera School for Girls will bring social and systemic change to pass.
Duties of this job include, but are not limited to:
- Implementing a program of study that adheres to the elementary school curriculum as adopted by the KSG.
- Differentiating instruction to address preferred learning styles of various students in class.
- Understanding and conducting ongoing assessment of student progress and reflect on instructional techniques accordingly.
- Be available to assist students outside of class time and differentiate instruction based on student need.
- Communicating regularly with parents through telephone and parent- teacher conferences.
- Attending relevant departmental, divisional and K12 professional meetings as necessary.
- Participating on faculty committees and curriculum development programs as required.
- Promoting a positive learning environment.
- Performing other duties assigned.
Candidate Requirements
- Diploma in ECD
- Minimum of 2 years progressive teaching experience
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of methods, materials and techniques used to teach K12
- Desire to be held accountable for student academic growth and academic results.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with a diverse team of teachers.
- Analytical problem solver and solutions oriented strategic thinker who overcomes difficult challenges.
- Plan activities for children, such as storytelling, art projects, debate and sports.
- Professional demeanor; strong work ethic, Detail driven work style with excellent organizational skills.
How to Apply:
Interested applicants should send their applications together with a detailed CV to the HR Officer,
jobs@shininghopeforcommunities.org
Or
Hand deliver their applications to our offices in Kibera.
Directions to Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) (Kibera School for Girls)
- From town board matatu number 8 from Railways Station or KBS No.32C from Kencom Bus Stop
- Alight at Olympic Stage.
- From here, walk straight on upto Olympic Primary School.
- Continue walking down past Olympic Primary upto the Railway line. (This area is called Kamukunji)
- Cross the railway line and turn right into a small path that goes into Gatwekera Slum.
- At the end of this short small path turn left.
- Walk straight down (you will walk almost 1015 minutes) until you reach a blue signpost written
Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) with an arrow leading you to our offices.
So as to reach us no later than 20th May 2014.
So as to reach us no later than 20th May 2014.
Female candidates particularly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
