Organisation Overview

The Pharo Foundation (the ‘’Foundation”) is a privately funded entrepreneurial organisation that runs philanthropic programmes as well as a for-profit arm, Pharo Ventures. The Vision of the Foundation is an economically vibrant and inclusive Africa. The Mission is to achieve the Vision by investing in the human and physical capital of Africa, with a strong focus on job creation.

The Pharo School Homosha (https://pharoschools.org/pharo-school-homosha/)  is one of the Foundation’s largest education projects in Ethiopia. The school is located in Homosha, 45 minutes away from Assosa, the capital city of Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State (BGRS) of Ethiopia. Extending over 3.4 hectares, the school has a modern fully-fledged campus with a 240 girls’ boarding capacity, aiming to offer the best educational and boarding opportunities to bright and driven girls from across the region. 

The school follows the Ethiopian National Curriculum with the ambition to meet international best practices. Our focus on female education is in recognition of the challenges in accessing education, which prevents many from unlocking their full potential. This shapes the school’s vision of achieving all-round academic and personal development of girls to reach their highest potential and become future leaders and role models. 

We pride ourselves in having a diverse and experienced school leadership team. Our team of dedicated staff from all over Ethiopia and other countries bring their wealth of experience to our students and contribute to the high education standards that we offer at The Pharo School Homosha. We have a hardworking and committed team of specialist teachers and a commitment to ensuring the best possible outcomes for our students. We look forward to sharing an exceptional academic relationship with you, one that will be supportive and successful. 

Position Summary

Are you a dedicated and passionate English Teacher in search of a school where you can really make a difference? If so, we wish to appoint you to join us at an exciting stage of development for our school. If you are an aspirational educator who builds strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues and is committed to ensuring high standards for student learning; join our talented, energetic, cohesive, and friendly team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Teaching and Learning

• Ensure timely preparation of annual plans, course outlines, and daily lesson plans as required by the school.

• Teach lessons to the highest standard, ensuring lessons are carefully planned.

• Showcase excellent subject knowledge and continually find opportunities to develop it.

• Ensure, with colleagues, that the learning environment within the classroom is engaging and promotes critical thinking and enthusiasm for the subject.

• Setting and moderating common assessment tests and exams each term to ensure progress is tracked.

• Keep a record of all examination scores to ensure that progress is benchmarked against previous scores.

• Observe other teachers in the department on a regular basis and offer the opportunity for them to observe you in order that good practice is widely shared.

2. General

• Engage in CPD opportunities across the department and school as a whole.

• Cultivate an English-speaking culture in the school, amongst all staff, students and others.

• Design, prepare and deliver extracurricular activities.

• Attend regular staff and department meetings.

• Engage actively in the implementation of the school’s co-curricular and social support activities.

• Supervise students at lunchtime, study time, or even school breaks, and in other assigned.

• Maintain a filing system as appropriate - to include shared resources, past papers for internal and external exams, and inset/CPD material.

• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive remuneration, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

• Fully furnished accommodation and meals (while school is in session).

• Health & Life insurance, provident fund, and pension as per the Ethiopian laws.

• A variety of opportunities for training.

• Very safe, caring, and positive work environment.

Reporting to: Deputy Head of School

Based in: On-campus at Homosha boarding school

Functional Relationships: All teaching and non-teaching staff, Academic Coordinators, and Head of School.

Number of Positions Required: 1 (One)

Open to hiring Nationals from: Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Job Requirements

Qualification Requirements

The successful candidate will be/have:

• BEd or Bachelor’s Degree with a Post Graduate Diploma in Translation (PGDT) / Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) or equivalent.

• Proven experience of over 3 years in teaching English at secondary school level.

• Prior experience in international schools is an advantage, as is experience teaching English as an Additional Language (EAL) students and teaching English as a second language.

• The ability to share your outstanding practice.

• A creative and enthusiastic approach both in and out of the classroom.

• Excellent IT and interpersonal communication skills to work closely with students and parents.

• A team player and social person who can integrate well into the school team and commit to living on-campus in a boarding school.

• A proven track record of providing outstanding teaching and learning.

• An aspiration to work in a world-class school with real prospects for enhancing their career.

How to Apply

Application Procedure 

Review of applications will begin as soon as they are received, and only complete applications will be considered. In the event that an outstanding applicant is identified early on in the search process, we reserve the right to appoint before the deadline. For this reason, we encourage interested and suitably qualified candidates to apply at the earliest possible opportunity.

Application Requirements

CV

Cover Letter - In your cover letter, please state where you heard about this position or saw it advertised e.g. through our website, jobs board, etc.

An updated list of at least (3) referees with their name, title, current email addresses and phone numbers as follows; two supervisors and one peer.

Interested applicants can apply using CLICK HERE