Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Number of Positions: 4
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.
We have launched our first twenty-six schools in Kenya, have eleven more opening in September 2011 and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across Africa.
About this position
Bridge International Academies is looking for an individual with a successful track record of processing and interviewing large numbers of applications for recruitment.
This position requires someone with high demonstrated energy levels, who is extremely motivated to succeed and is accountable for results.
This position reports to the Recruiting Officer (Schools) and the primary goal is to manage large scale recruitment drives for our schools which are located in the local income areas and/or informal settlements of Nairobi and beyond.
Because of the eventual size of our operations, the company will ultimately need to hire thousands of new teachers each year and hundreds of new school managers to manage this undertaking.
It is critical to our success to be able to design and manage streamlined selection, recruiting, and hiring processes to find the right people and to do so in a cost-effective manner. It is the role of the Recruiting Assistant to support this process whilst overseeing a small team of temporary workers.
Hiring responsibilities will include: 
