Head of School - Africa

Enko Education; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 750 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational organization is seeking a Head of School to transform and lead African International Schools of Choice. The role demands managing educational outcomes, ensuring academic quality, and recruiting a high-performing team. Ideal candidates should have proficiency in English and French, significant experience as a head of school, and an entrepreneurial mindset. This position offers relocation support and various benefits, including housing and educational assistance for candidate's children.

Benefits

Housing assistance

Transportation support

Annual flight home

Tuition remission for children's education

Medical aid

Settling-in allowance

Qualifications

• Full working proficiency in English and French.
• Extensive experience as a head of school or the motivation to become one.
• Highly comfortable with the use of educational technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation of the school into a top international institution.
• Manage educational, financial, and operational outcomes.
• Achieve student recruitment and financial targets.

Skills

Bilingual proficiency in English and French

Entrepreneurial mindset

Leadership and team management

Technological proficiency

Education

Experience as a Head of School

Job description

Enko Education is recruiting

Heads of Schools for several of its schools in Africa

Transform education across Africa with Enko Education

Are you a visionary leader passionate about education and dedicated to transforming lives? Join Enko Education as a Head of School, where you will lead the charge in shaping African International Schools of Choice and expanding African students' access to top universities.

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 EnkoModel: 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.

As the local representative of the Enko brand, you will actively engage with stakeholders—parents, staff, shareholders, partners, and landlords—to uphold and enhance the school’s reputation and mission. Reporting to the School Management Committee, you will collaborate closely with the school's Sponsor and leverage the resources and expertise from the Central team and the other Heads of Schools.

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
• 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

Relocation

Our schools are spread across Africa, flexibility to relocate is essential. We will help the selected candidates to relocate. Benefits include housing, transportation, annual flight home, tuition remission for candidate’s children at our school, medical aid, and a settling‑in allowance.

Why Join Enko Education?

• Make an impact: Lead a transformative journey in education, empowering learners to achieve their potential.
• Growth opportunities: Be part of a pioneering organization with opportunities to grow your career within our expanding network.
• Innovative environment: Work with like‑minded professionals dedicated to reimagining education in Africa.
• Community spirit: Build meaningful connections with students, parents, and staff who share a commitment to excellence.

If you are ready to shape the future of education in Africa and inspire the next generation of leaders, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and embark on a journey of transformation with Enko Education.

About Enko Education

Enko Education is a fast‑growing network of African international schools, increasing access to the world’s best universities for learners across Africa.

Enko Education has developed an innovative model. Our programmes lead to globally recognised and sought after qualifications. We are able to offer those at a fraction of the cost charged by other international schools in Africa. Furthermore, Enko learners are supported in their higher education applications through our university guidance programme. It supports them in selecting the right universities and then securing both admission and financing for their studies. We offer an outstanding learning experience striving to educate our learners with Africa at heart and the world in mind.

Enko Education’s model is showing impressive results with learners joining top universities like Yale University (USA), Sciences Po (Fr), the University of Toronto (Canada), African Leadership University (Rwanda) and many more.

Enko Education schools are committed to child safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people, and expect all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre‑employment checks will be undertaken.

Enko Education is an equal opportunities employer, committed to inclusivity, diversity, and valuing difference. Our safer recruitment practices aim to ensure that only individuals committed to child safeguarding join our schools. A police clearance from every country where the applicant has lived in the past 10 years is required before signing an employment contract. Reference checks with previous employers will also be conducted for each successful candidate.