Area Manager – GP Chakwal

The Citizen Foundation; Chakwal; On-site; PKR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

The Citizen Foundation seeks an experienced Area Leader to oversee academic leadership across a network of schools and Principals. You will drive quality improvements in school performance, support Principal development, and coordinate administrative data management and fleet operations.

You will recruit and mentor local Principals and Teachers, monitor appraisals and PQI visits, and partner with the RHR Manager to sustain continuous regional growth and learning outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in educational leadership within a large school network.
• Ability to drive improvement across academics and operations.
• Strong people management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead academic leadership for schools and Principals to ensure quality.
• Drive improvement in SSR, fee collection processes, and fleet management.
• Manage Area Administrator and data management activities.

Skills

Leadership

Educational management

Stakeholder management

Recruitment

Observation & feedback

Tools

Data management

Job description

Overall Area Leadership

• Responsible and accountable for the entire academic leadership and management of Schools and entire cohort of Principals.
• Accountable for ensuring improvement in SSR, fee collection enhancement and day to day fleet management.
• Responsible for managing Area Administrator to perform overall administrative duties & Academic data management (analysis, verification & preservation).

Relationship Management

• Maintain communication with community members and encourage use of community resources where possible to facilitate schools if needed, encourage Principals to keep strong communication with Parents and occasionally attend Parent-Student meetings.
• Maintain liaison with donor-on-donor related education activities where required.
• Maintains communication with other AMs to ensure a strong collaborative working environment, seeks feedback as well as shares best practice to support over all region development.

Quality of Principal

• Responsible for overall strengthening of Principal cohort to improve Principal Quality.
• Work with the RHR Manager in recruitment of quality local Principals (including participation in Assessment Centers).
• Ensure full participation in PQI visits and monitoring regular academic feedback is provided to the Principals (including formally through appraisals) and monitor continuous improvement throughout the year. Where applicable support the Principal through PIP.

Quality of Teacher

• Responsible for overall strengthening of Teacher cohort to improve Teacher Quality (Content through TCT and Pedagogy).
• Work with the Principals in outreach and recruitment of quality local Teachers especially in difficult locations.
• In charge of approving Teacher transfers and promotion recommendations.
• Conduct minimum 1 classroom observation on every visit and ensure consistency in feedback.

Quality of Schools

• Develop clear action plan for struggling schools in the area, implementation and regular follow up to ensure improvement.
• Plan and develop strategies for area improvement (through AIP) clearly linked to whole school and area improvement.