Academy Fellows
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Aga Khan Academy Mombasa, an International Baccalaureate World School, is recruiting Academy Fellows to serve as Residential Parents supporting student residential life, tutoring, service-learning, mentoring, and co-curricular activities. The role is full-time, residential, and suited to graduates passionate about education and youth development.
- Full-time residential role with on-campus apartment provided
- Support students through tutoring, mentoring, and service-learning
- Involvement in co-curricular activities such as sports, clubs, and trips
- Bachelor's degree required with strong co-curricular involvement
- Based at Aga Khan Academy Mombasa, Kenya
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The Aga Khan Academies are an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The AKDN is a group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. AKDN agencies conduct their programmes without regard to faith, origin or gender.
Academy Fellows
Job Type
Full Time
Qualification
BA/BSc/HND
Experience
- Location
- Mombasa
- Job Field
- of working with young people or mentoring peers.
- Proactive self-starter, comfortable working autonomously.
- Openness to the new experiences, cultures and learning.
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Education
/ Teaching / Training
The position
The A
ga Khan Academy Mombasa
is an International Baccalaureate World School. It is the first in the network of Aga Khan Academies established by His Highness the Aga Khan.
The Academy features state-of-the-art facilities, a multicultural student body, and an experienced team of educators and staff. We provide students with
of the highest standard in order to prepare them for lives characterised by leadership and service. Admission to the Academy is means-blind and is based on merit. We consider all eligible students regardless of socio-economic status.
The Academy Fellow will live in an apartment and serve the student residential programme as a
Residential Parent
promoting community life and are responsible for the following aspects of student and academic life.
While the
Academy Fellow
does not teach, s/he will be scheduled to have some contact with classes, to engage fully with the learning and teaching of the Academy so that he/she can support students with additional tutoring after school hours and during residential study time. This will be approximately 10 hours a week (supporting 2 or 3 classes in a subject of the fellow/intern’s choice. Maths and Science are the areas of most need along with English as an Additional Language for our students who join on the Talent Identification Programme from marginalised communities in Kenya.)
Developing and delivering the Service- Learning Programme which takes place every week with Years 6-10. This is a 10 hour a week commitment and requires planning the activities, working with community partners, delivering the programme to. Students and colleagues and supporting individual groups as they develop and implement their projects.
Academy Fellows play a major role as Residential Parents in guiding residential students in their personal and academic goals and as Mentors for a small group of students to support them academically and socially. As residential parents fellows are expected to develop close relationships with their dorm sons/daughters by checking in with them frequently as well as supervising in an official capacity twice a week and one weekend in three.
Academy Fellows are expected to actively contribute to the co-curricular programme in some way such as coaching athletic teams, providing music lessons or running clubs such as gardening, cooking, debating, MUN, TedX, guiding students interested in applying to top international universities with SAT preparation, reading essays personal statements etc
Academy fellows will be asked to chaperoning off-campus residential and day trips, including to places of worship
The
Requirements
- A Bachelor's Degree with excellent academic achievement and a range of interests
- A record of significant involvement in residential, student leadership, music, athletic and / or community service during university.
- Genuine interest in and commitment to the mission of the Aga Khan Academies: to influence young people to become future leaders in the developing world.