About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across continent
About this position
Site Identification Manager
We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.
A central part of our operations includes the identification and verification of plots of land for our schools inside the slums. These plots are spread across the greater Nairobi area and beyond. We therefore use Land Scouts who travel through lower income areas looking for plots that fit the size that we need in the areas that we have identified.
We are seeking a person who can manage these scouts and their output. The person employed will be skilled at managing a large workforce, directing them to the correct areas and compiling reports on their output. The person employed will also be responsible for finding and hiring land scouts, retaining those with the greatest output and replacing those that do not deliver the results demanded.
And because our plan is to launch hundreds and thousands of schools, this process must be streamlined, made cost effective and efficient.
The person we seek will be comfortable using technology to manage the team (SMS, spreadsheets, databases, GIS, mapping systems)
The Land Identification Manager will report to the Deputy Director of Land Acquisition, showing results on a daily basis, while also compiling reports on a weekly and monthly basis. We are looking for someone who is a results-based and motivated self-starter, able to effectively manage a large and growing team with efficiency and poise.
Responsibilities:
- Refine, develop and manage a very detailed set of processes to identify and verify plots of land in the slums.
- Expand and coordinate a team of local “property scouts”.
- Creating and auditing a checklist of requirements for acceptable plots.
- Using handheld GPS, satellite maps and aerial photography for identification, sizing, & verification of plots.
- Develop and manage handover process between plot identification and verification.
- Developing a sophisticated payment process to ensure efficient and transparent payments to the ‘land scouts’, based on a per plot commission.
- Motivating ‘land scouts’ to provide maximum output.
- You have minimum of 5 years experience in sales, distribution or personnel management.
- You have successfully managed scratch-card / newspaper sales and distribution or similar.
- You have experience with very process-oriented project management
- You have experience with negotiating creative deals with many people/parties in complex situations
- You have experience with managing distributed teams.
- You are extremely analytical, and excited about using data to drive processes and decision making.
- You have a good geographical knowledge of Nairobi (essential) and other towns (preferred).
- You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high