Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 20 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Your challenge and responsibilities:
Houseparents play a decisive role in students’ formation and enriching their experience of boarding school. The houseparent maintains an overview of the student’s social and emotional wellbeing and overall growth and development. They foster a safe, nurturing residential environment and community in which our students can flourish. In regular communication with their residents’ mentors, they guide and accompany individual students through their daily journey of living, learning, and achieving at Ntare Louisenlund School. Small learning groups with approximately 20 students enable individual and targeted support. This includes supporting students to cultivate self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

Your Main Responsibilities
• Ensuring students uphold all boarding school policies, rules, and regulations
• Ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of students
• Fostering a close-knit house community in which students feel accepted and at home
• Planning and carrying out regular boarding house activities for residents
• Supervising house tables at lunch and dinner. It can be after the bullet point on house activities.
• Developing a trusting relationship with students and being approachable and accessible to them in times of need
• Supervision of students at all times when they are not in classes and activities
• Ensuring students maintain tidiness and order in both personal appearance and in their living accommodations
• Communicating with students’ parents on a regular basis and updating them on their child’s wellbeing and overall development
• Promoting leadership skills by providing students with opportunities to assume different roles and responsibilities within the house community
• Facilitating students’ arrivals and departures and welcoming Ntare Louisenlund families to campus

Your Profile
• Proven professional experience in a boarding school environment or similar institution
• Enthusiasm for working with young people and contributing positively to their social and emotional development
• Enjoyment in taking on the role of matron or assistant housemaster (residential group) with up to 20 students
• You have a qualification/certification for working with young people in an educational, residential, or social context
• You have the willingness to familiarize yourself with the special pedagogical concept of the Ntare Louisenlund, to undergo further professional development, and to shape campus life as part of the team.
• You are able to pass a background check and meet other employment requirements as mandated by the school.

We offer:
• A fully equipped school campus with excellent facilities in a beautiful natural setting in Bugesera.
• Optional campus housing on a first-come-first-serve basis.
• An exceptional in-house professional development programme
• Small residential groups (20 students each).
• An extensive and diverse co-curricular programme and the possibility of taking part in or offering co-curricular experiences for students.
• Collaboration with an experienced, internationally recognized school in Germany.
• Various partnerships with external educational partners.
• A committed, dedicated, and team-oriented staff.
• An attractive compensation package based on your level of experience. This figure includes the staff housing allowance. All staff salaries are paid in RWF.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
• Can you imagine working to help us design the school of the future? Then you should apply by 31st May 2024 to careers@ntare-louisenlund.rw  and share an updated CV, motivation letter and certified electronic copies of your professional qualifications and relevant certificates. CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
• Please indicate in the subject line while applying as “Boarding Houseparent/ Matron/Assistant Housemaster”.

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