Posted Sep 07, 2016
Job Summary
Senior Manager Professional Development will have the overall responsibility to assist regional management for achieving and furthering the successful in-service professional development goals both for teachers and school leaders. S/he will be responsible to build linkages and partnership with AKDN institutions and other professional development institutions in offering need based continuous professional development programmes for teachers and school leaders. His/her responsibilities will include development and constant revision of professional development standards and benchmarks for schools teachers and school leaders, review the professional development needs identified in school teachers and school leaders performance management cycle and study the impact of professional development on student and teacher learning. The incumbent will report to Head of Education, and work in close coordination with General Managers and Regional Manager Academic in the regions. The position is based in Islamabad
Responsibilities
· Develop professional development standards for schools teachers and school leaders;
· Ensure the compliance of continuous professional development policies both at the regional and school level;
· Conduct orientation sessions for regional management on the professional development standards and policies for schools teachers and school leaders;
· Give strategic directions, critically review professional development plans developed by regional teams and facilitate capacity building of the regional teams leading professional development programmes;
· Bring synergy among regional teams by engaging them in collaborative planning and to share the professional development manuals;
· Develop linkages, partnership and working relations with professional development institutions within and beyond AKDN;
· Analyse professional development programmes against target setting in the teachers and school leaders’ performance appraisal;
· Facilitate professional development impact studies at regional and school level, disseminate and create discussion forums related to research and best professional development practices;
· Seek feedback from teachers and teacher educators, and accordingly advice the professional development planning team to incorporate in their future endeavours;
· Work on any other task assigned by immediate supervisor and/or senior management.
Job Details
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKES,P) is a network of educational institutions that combines the operation of 159 schools and 5 hostels with the management of programmes to enhance the quality of teachers, academic resources and learning environments in Pakistan through community partnerships and long-term interventions. It is one of the largest third-sector networks of educational institutions in Pakistan and part of an international network of over 200 schools spread in 8 countries of the world under the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). Reaching out to the remotest areas of the country, AKES,P has been providing quality education in the region for the past 110 years. It is a direct provider of education for nearly 36,000 students from pre-primary to higher secondary levels and facilitates access to higher education through the provision of scholarships, hostels and other educational support services.With more than 2,000 employees, of whom over 1,500 areteachers, AKES,P is also supported by over 2,000 volunteers. In Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, the first AKES,P schools were setup in the 1940s; since then they have contributed significantly toincreasing the literacy rates and social development in theremote, mountainous, harsh and ecologically fragile regions ofNorthern Pakistan. AKES,P currently operates 151 schools inGilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, providing education to over 27,000students, of which 54% are girls. Through these efforts, AKES,Pis continuing to play a critical role in women’s development inthe region. In the Southern Region, AKES,P operates four schools in Karachi,three in Hyderabad and rural Sindh and one in Hafizabad,Punjab, with over 8,900 students. All AKES,P schools follow theNational Curriculum but place special emphasis on the teachingof English, Mathematics, Science and the increasing use ofInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT).
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