Job Opportunities at Enko Education

• Your main mission will be to serve as the right-hand person to school management in human resources management. Particularly well-versed in legal knowledge, with a level of rigor suited to monitor and oversee a range of topics under your responsibility, intellectually agile, equipped with analytical skills, and an articulate writing style, you will confidently address daily HR challenges and leverage these experiences to design forward-looking solutions.

Scope :

Recruitment and Onboarding: : 

• Partner with internal clients to accurately define role profiles based on team needs and future objectives.
• Create and execute innovative recruitment strategies to attract talent in a competitive market.
• Ensure long-term alignment of recruited talent.
• Conduct interviews assessing both technical and managerial competencies.
• Tailor onboarding plans to fit the position’s requirements

Management of HR Processes and Policies  :

• Develop HR processes to standardize practices and adapt them to each school’s local specificities.
• Communicate the purpose of HR processes, ensuring they are locally implemented and understood as purposeful tools rather than mere administrative procedures.
• Ensure HR practices comply with local regulations and organizational policies.
• Implement systems for process control, monitoring, and reporting, with performance indicators to track the effectiveness of HR initiatives.

Disciplinary Management : 

• Assist in diagnosing situations to help managers create appropriate action plans.
• Prepare all necessary documentation for performance tracking.
• Draft disciplinary notices when needed.
• Guide managers through difficult conversations related to professional insufficiencies or behavioral issues.
• Develop legal partnerships, setting clear terms to reach desired outcomes.

Social Relations : 

• Guide school directors on employee representation obligations.
• Foster a healthy and pleasant work atmosphere

Compensation & Benefits (Payroll Management):

• Handle payroll administration within your scope, continuously improving compliance levels.
• Oversee payroll-related information flows to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Administer employee benefits, such as insurance and bonuses, following local regulations and internal compensation policies.
• Establish trust with employees in terms of pay and benefits, promoting fairness and transparent communication.
• Understand the school market in your area to implement a competitive remuneration policy.

Supporting Schools in Professionalizing Managers’ HR Role:

• Proactively create conditions that establish employee trust regarding payroll and benefits, ensuring fair treatment and transparent communication.
  Understand the school market within your scope to implement a well-suited compensation policy.

Supporting Schools in Professionalizing the Manager’s Role as a Proximity HR:

• Conduct regular audits of HR practices in each school to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Assess the specific HR management needs of each school.
• Design and effectively deliver practical training sessions on management topics.

Ideal candidate:

• Demonstrates strong rigor and attention to detail.
• A first experience as an HR generalist is a considerable asset or a strong interest in labor and social law.
• Holds a Master’s/MBA in HR, Law, or Business Management.
• Ability to handle complex topics, both strategic and operational.
• Strong communicator: The candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization effectively.
• Proficient in implementing and monitoring processes and projects.
• Strong writing skills.
• Able to work in an English-speaking environment.
• Skilled in driving stakeholder engagement and facilitating change adoption.
• Strong interpersonal skills: The candidate must establish trust with school leaders and their teams, enabling them to make high-impact decisions with legitimacy.
• A natural educator.
• Proven ability to persuade and convince.
• Leadership: The candidate should be able to inspire employee engagement and promote a positive corporate culture.

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• To bridge this gap and fulfill our mission of providing African learners access to the best universities, we are seeking a seasoned Chief School Officer (CSO) to join our Executive Committee.
• Reporting directly to the CEO, you will be the architect of our schools' transformation, driving the Enko Model to ensure our growth is predictable, reproducible, and synonymous with world-class quality.

Your Profile: a High-Stakes Coach

• You are a rare breed of leader who marries the surgical execution of a COO with the high emotional intelligence required to lead educators through profound transformation.
• Your career in multi-site management - whether in Education, premium Retail, or high-end Services - demonstrates a mastery of driving a "Group Playbook" while empowering local leadership to excel.
• Thriving as a disciplined intrapreneur, you would navigate the Enko Model with a knack for creative, low-cost problem-solving that never compromises the blueprint. You possess an innate ability for relentless prioritization, instinctively filtering out the noise to protect "the main thing." Rather than leading by decree, you secure buy-in through influential narrative building, stepping into the shoes of your team members to turn systemic change into a shared mission.
• People describe you as a People Developer to the core; you diagnose performance gaps with precision and foster a culture where unwavering accountability meets psychological safety. Moving fluidly between English and French, you bridge the gap between international standards and local context, ensuring our vision resonates deeply with every stakeholder across our diverse African network.

Your Mission: Drive, Empower, Scale

As CSO, you will leverage four Strategic Pillars to deliver the Group Business Plan:

• Operational Excellence: Drive P&L and process performance across all schools to ensure financial sustainability.
• Leadership Development: Empower and hold Heads of School (HoS) accountable, streamlining operations to maximize their focus on Learning & Teaching.
• Scalable Synergies: Harness the "power of the group" by standardizing best practices and securing compliance through the Enko Comprehensive School Support Solution.
• Brand Ambassadorship: Embody Enko’s values to strengthen our Value Proposition for both parents and employees.

The ideal fit: what you bring to the team

To succeed in this role and thrive within the Enko culture, you will need to demonstrate a unique blend of operational rigor and high-level leadership. Specifically, we are looking for the following core competencies:

• Analytical Strategist: You possess the structural rigor to manage complex P&Ls and the analytical depth to solve root-cause operational challenges systematically.
• Agile Intrapreneur: You thrive on autonomy and find creative, low-cost solutions to hurdles while remaining strictly disciplined in your execution of the Enko Model.
• Focused Executor: You demonstrate relentless prioritization, protecting "the main thing" from distractions and maintaining a high-performance tempo across the network.
• Influential People Developer: You combine high EQ with influential storytelling to mentor leaders, create psychological safety, and turn organizational resistance into positive momentum.
• Avid Learner: You possess the intellectual curiosity and agility to grow alongside our organization, constantly seeking to improve both yourself and our operational frameworks.
• Bilingual Communicator: You offer professional fluency in both English and French, an essential enabler for engaging deeply with our diverse stakeholders across the continent.

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• Are you a strategic architect capable of aligning business vision with technological execution? Can you turn complex systems into simple, intuitive solutions that empower teams in their daily work? Do you thrive in fast-paced scale-up environments where agility is the rule and impact is a strong measure of success?
• Enko Education is seeking its future Business Technology Senior Manager to lead our Business Efficiency team across 11 African countries. You are not just an IT manager; you are a leader building the digital and human foundations that allow thousands of African students to access the world's best universities.
• Directly reporting to the Group CFO, you will head the Business Efficiency function. Your mission is to turn technology into a powerful engine of performance, ensuring that every decision made by our leadership is backed by flawless, real-time data.
• With 8 to 12 years of experience - ideally in SI/Management consulting or a multi-site scale-up - you have mastered the art of making SaaS ecosystems "talk" to each other while leading teams toward operational excellence. You do not look for the most expensive solution, but the smartest and most value-driven one.
• This is a unique chance to shape the technological backbone of a fast-growing education group. Are you ready to take on the challenge?

About the Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Architecture: Define and lead the 3-year technology roadmap, harmonizing our existing tools (EDUKA, XERO, Toddle) to create a coherent, scalable ecosystem.
• Team Leadership: Lead and grow the Business Efficiency team, setting clear OKRs and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
• Data for Decision-Making: Design and deploy BI dashboards (Looker Studio, Power BI) to provide the ExCo with surgical precision on key metrics (Revenue, Retention, Academics).
• Stakeholder Influence: Drive change across the group by using influence management to align local school teams and central functions with new digital standards, regardless of direct reporting lines.
• Project & Partner Management: Select and lead external providers with a high standard for ROI and delivery quality.
• Efficiency Booster: Identify "heavy" manual processes and propose agile automation solutions to free up time for our school teams.

The Ideal Candidate

• We are looking for a leader with a Triple Dimension: a Business vision to prioritize impact, Technological agility to build light solutions, and Human leadership to inspire and unite teams.

Your profile in 5 points:

• Proven Expertise: Solid experience in SI and Data, with advanced mastery of BI tools and SaaS architectures.
• People Leadership: Proven ability to manage a team and drive influence management across diverse geographical locations and cultures.
• Operational Agility: The ability to shift instantly from "helicopter-view" strategic thinking to "hands-on" field execution.
• Methodological Rigor: A natural ability to structure complex projects, manage budgets, and set OKRs with total autonomy.
• Full Bilingualism: Proficiency in French and English is mandatory to navigate and influence in our multi-country environment.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: An "Avid Learner" who is creative, solution-oriented, and capable of turning constraints into development opportunities.

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• A private school in Randburg seeks to employ a highly motivated Physics and Mathematics educator to start in April 2026. Amazing Grace Private School is part of the Enko Education Group, a fast-growing network of African international schools, increasing access to the world's best universities for learners across Africa. Learn more about Enko Education on www.enkoeducation.com. 
• Enko Education schools are committed to child safeguarding and promoting their well-being. We expect all staff, volunteers, and partners to share this commitment. Child safeguarding questions will be included in the recruitment process to ensure appropriate qualifications and backgrounds, thereby minimizing the risks of abuse and ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for all our learners.

Requirements:

• Possess at least a bachelor's degree in education qualification specializing in Mathematics and Physics, with at least 3 years of teaching experience in FET phase.
• Being creative and innovative with a passion for developing young people
• Computer literate and able to integrate IT into teaching and learning
• Able to work collaboratively in a team of dynamic educators
• Enthusiasm to get involved in co-curricular activities
• Eager and willing to embrace staff development
• Be a dynamic, driven person with a desire for educational excellence

The successful candidate for this post:

• must be passionate about teaching Mathematics and Physics
• embraces the ENKO Education values and mission
• must be responsible for all duties as required of an academic educator
• must be committed to the subject and grade-related activities
• is SACE registered and has the legal documentation to work in South Africa

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• A private school in Randburg seeks to employ a highly motivated CAT to teach Afrikaans to start in February 2026. Amazing Grace Private School is part of the Enko Education Group, a fast-growing network of African international schools, increasing access to the world's best universities for learners across Africa.
• Enko Education schools are committed to child safeguarding and promoting their well-being. We expect all staff, volunteers, and partners to share this commitment.
• Child safeguarding questions will be included in the recruitment process to ensure appropriate qualifications and backgrounds, thereby minimizing the risks of abuse and ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for all our learners.

Requirements:

• Possess at least a bachelor's degree in education qualification specializing in Afrikaans, with at least 3 years of teaching experience in senior phase.
• Being creative and innovative with a passion for developing young people
• Computer literate and able to integrate IT into teaching and learning
• Able to work collaboratively in a team of dynamic educators
• Enthusiasm to get involved in co-curricular activities
• Eager and willing to embrace staff development
• Be a dynamic, driven person with a desire for educational excellence

The successful candidate for this post:

• must be passionate about teaching Afrikaans
• embraces the Enko Education values and mission
• must be responsible for all duties as required of an academic educator
• must be committed to the subject and grade-related activities
• is SACE registered and has the legal documentation to work in South Africa

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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