Head of School - Africa at Enko Education

Your mission as Head of School at Enko Education

• As Head of School, you will lead one of our dynamic institutions, driving its transformation into a leading African International School of Choice. You will oversee all educational and financial outcomes, ensuring excellence across all dimensions of the school.
• Your role will involve establishing, managing, and continuously improving key areas such as learning and teaching, finance, operations, and student recruitment, all in alignment with the group’s Standards & Practices and the Enko Culture.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Implementing the Enko model: Ensure the school operates in full alignment with Enko’s framework and reference documents, including those provided by our academic partners (IB, CAIE) and local regulatory bodies.
• Leading accreditation processes: Successfully guide the school through international accreditation and re-accreditation processes, including those of the IB, CAIE, and relevant national authorities.
• Achieving educational excellence: Deliver the school’s educational objectives in alignment with Enko Education’s overarching goals, ensuring academic and teaching quality.
• Building a high-performing team: Recruit, develop, and retain top-quality teaching and non-teaching staff to foster an outstanding and motivated team.
• Driving growth and financial performance: Achieve student recruitment targets and financial objectives, including managing the school’s P&L and leading it towards or maintaining positive EBITDA.
• Generating additional revenue: Develop and execute strategies to create new revenue streams that support the school’s growth and sustainability.
• Enhancing parent and student experience: Ensure high levels of satisfaction among students and parents, fostering a strong sense of community and partnership.
• Contributing to network development: Actively participate in improving the Enko model and support the expansion of our network across Africa, leveraging insights and best practices.

The ideal candidate

• Has full working proficiency in both English and French
• Shares our excitement to offer top-notch international education to the fast-growing African middle-class
• Demonstrates respect and passion for the African continent
• Embodies our values like no other. Lives and breathes the values of IB especially
• Understands affordability challenges and the expectations we face with our parent population
• Has extensive experience as a head of school or the motivation and skills to become one
• Has demonstrated management experience
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on attitude, lots of energy and resilience
• Is highly at ease with use of technology, both for educational purposes (e.g. blended learning) as in daily professional practice
• Thinks growth and scale, to tackle one of the largest and most pressing needs of the continent