Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
15 Isomo Academic Fellows
Over the last 10 years, Bridge2Rwanda has become an expert at bursting the bottlenecks that prevent Rwanda’s brightest students from competing and winning university scholarships. Our experience identifying and preparing Rwanda’s most promising students has given us a deep understanding of the skills gap that continues to limit students’ competitiveness in pursuing higher education, such as English proficiency, critical thinking skills, standardized test preparation and navigating the university admissions process.
To address these issues and broaden our impact, Bridge2Rwanda launched Isomo Academy — an intensive English training and college preparatory program designed to equip Rwanda’s top high school students with the skills they need to compete and win university scholarships inside and outside Rwanda. This program will be fully residential for an 8-week period during the summer.

Isomo Academy is embarking on its second year of establishing a rigorous, rich, fun, and exciting learning experience for each student including activities and community-building outside of the classroom. In Summer 2022, Year 2 Isomo Senior Scholars (rising S6 students) are returning for a second year at Isomo Academy, and we are welcoming a new class of Year 1 Isomo Junior Scholars (rising S5 students) to start the Isomo Academy experience. To learn more about Isomo Academy, click here and here.
As we plan and build the second year of this transformational program, we are excited to invite enthusiastic, passionate, high-capacity young leaders to apply for different positions on our team. Our team shares a few things: an infectious passion for learning, excitement for exploring new models of education and youth empowerment, and a fun-loving environment that fosters a sense of accountability, community-engagement, and servant leadership.
Reach out to us at ldreilling@bridge2rwanda.org  or bmugisha@bridge2rwanda.org  for any questions, comments, or ideas about how to make Isomo an excellent place for learning and growth.

About the Position
Our Isomo Fellows are our trailblazers, trend-setters, and academic guides! They will be the heart and the smile of our Isomo program. They will run the show in Academics and Culture, and infect our students with a vivacious curiosity, a resolve to learn and engage, and a sense of leadership. We are hiring Academic Fellows to support us in various academic positions for our Junior (Year 1) and Senior (Year 2) Isomo Scholars in academic writing, guided reading, seminar discussions, public speaking, debate, research writing, creative writing, and SAT/TOEFL test prep.

Isomo Academic Fellows will be responsible for the following:
• Working with the teaching team to facilitate instruction and lead discussion sections and language workshops
• Grading and editing student essays, facilitating writing workshops and language labs, and fostering communication skills through debate, speeches, and small group discussions
• Creating a safe environment for all students during class and for family members to vulnerably share their successes and failures without judgment
• Creating and foster an environment of inspiration, wonder, and community
• Mentoring and academically supporting family members
• Monitoring and evaluate academic, social, emotional growth of all family members and students in class
• Providing weekly updates to the teaching team
• Supporting a family of 8-10 students on a daily basis, outside of class time during morning and evening family time

Requirements
It is a great honor and responsibility to be an Isomo Fellow. It will take everything it took to succeed in the gap-year program, and then some more! Isomo fellows are curious, academic, responsible, mature, high-energy scholars with a strong ability to take initiative.

Candidates must demonstrate:
• Passionate desire to learn and grow professionally and personally
• Demonstrated sense of responsibility and initiative
• Ability to provide feedback to academic essays and facilitate discussions that evoke critical thinking and strong communication skills
• Ability to build bonds among students without excluding any of them
• Ability to assess students’ academic and social needs, and take preliminary steps to respond to them
• Passion for leading discussions and helping students discover the joy of learning from one another
• Willingness to work as part of a team and communicate effectively about any issues
• Willingness to listen, mentor, and support all our students

Duration: July 5th- September 30th
• Training: July 5th-July 23rd
• Programming: July 24th-September 30th

Stipend: $500 for the entire program

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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