Posted:Fri at 12:41 PM
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Education Management
Description:
Founded in April 2014, Moringa School plays a crucial role in developing and nurturing highly potential individuals who are passionate about technology and want to take a lead role in mobile and web development through equipping them with life long skills. Through our top quality teachers, to our intensive curriculum we are creating world-class developers in Africa with the help of our partnership with Hack Reactor and many other coding schools from all around the world. We are dedicated to committing the majority of our profits back to our main mission of transforming higher education in Africa. Diversity We are an all inclusive school that is accepting of students and staff from all walks of life. Our ever growing community comprises of people from all backgrounds each and every one of whom share a passion for code. Vision Our vision is to increase access to high quality market driven education that empowers people to pursue excellence and transform society. Mission Our goal is to build human capacity by training people of varied technical ability in a holistic way; we focus on both technical proficiency and personal growth, meaning that graduates are effective learners and contributors, and well rounded employees and leaders.
Job Description
Lead Curriculum Development & Assessment Strategy
- Plan, review and implement Moringa’s technical curriculum in line with industry best practice
- Develop an end-to-end curriculum review process with all relevant stakeholders to maintain quality and effectiveness
- Lead implementation of standards-based grading, designed to ensure that grades are closely aligned with mastery of learning targets
- Designing robust projects and assessments strategies that accurately measure learner progress and course effectiveness.
- Plan, review and implement technical mock interviews for both instructors and students
- Manage curriculum/content quality assurance
- Support scoping & needs assessment and delivery process for our corporate training programs
Maintain Curriculum Relevance and Best-practice
- Ensure the performance of all new and existing content is reviewed, and issues and improvements are resolved promptly
- Collaborate with industry and education field to deliver a quality curriculum/content
- Develop & maintain policies and procedures related to curriculum guidelines and standards
- Collaborate with classroom on instructional strategies, lesson planning, effective classroom management/delivery, troubleshooting, assessments and giving/receiving/actioning feedback
- Observe in-class instruction, analyze test data, assess education standards, recommend best practice instructional techniques
Team Management
- Lead recruitment of specialist curriculum engineers
- Supervise and mentor the curriculum team including setting performance objectives, and establishing a supportive environment while emphasizing accountability
- Ensure the consistent performance and development of curriculum engineers
WHO YOU ARE
- An experienced software engineer with a desire to learn and remain on the bleeding edge of the field
- An educator who can recall when they were a beginner in the field, and use that to determine best how to teach beginner-level students
- A creative problem solver who can cooperate with peers to solve challenges and seek new opportunities for Moringa technical programs
- A great verbal and nonverbal communicator; you listen to understand then respond
- A knowledge base: you teach, guide and mentor the students
- Self-aware; you are in tune with your feelings and emotions and understand how they impact other people
WHAT YOU HAVE
- 5+ years working experience in technical software development roles
- Led the development of enterprise products in use in the market
- 3+ year's experience in technical educational content curation and implementation
- Demonstrated experience with Java (Android), Python (Flask & Django), Dev Ops
- Nice to have experience in Data Science, Cloud, UX/UI
- A degree in Computer Science/Software or any other relevant degree
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time