Area Manager – GPCP Kasur

The Citizen Foundation; Kasur; On-site; PKR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Citizen Foundation seeks an experienced leader to oversee academic leadership across its network of schools and principals in the region. You will drive improvements in school performance, student outcomes, and stakeholder engagement.

You will coordinate with administrators, principals, teachers, and community partners to ensure consistent, data-driven governance and growth across the area. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and strategic planning across multiple campuses.

Responsibilities

• Lead academic leadership for all schools and principals in the area.
• Oversee SSR improvement, fee collection uplift, and fleet management in the region.
• Manage Area Administrator for administration and data management tasks.
• Engage with community members and donors; coordinate with principals and parents.
• Collaborate with other Area Managers to share best practices and drive region growth.
• Strengthen principal cohort and drive quality improvements in leadership practice.
• Support recruitment of high-quality local principals with the RHR Manager.
• Ensure PQI visits, appraisals, and continuous improvement of principals.
• Strengthen teacher quality through TCT and pedagogy initiatives.
• Oversee outreach and recruitment of local teachers, approve transfers and promotions.
• Conduct at least one classroom observation per visit and provide consistent feedback.
• Develop action plans for struggling schools and monitor progress.
• Plan area-wide improvements aligned with school-wide goals.

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.