Each Academy Fellow will live in an apartment and serve the student residential programme as a Residential Parent promoting community life. Please see the attached links to gain a greater sense of the life of an Academy Fellow

https://www.agakhanacademies.org/general/academy-fellows

https://www.agakhanacademies.org/general/gallery/academy-fellows

While the Academy Fellow does not teach, s/he will be scheduled to have contact with classes, in order to engage fully with the learning and teaching of the Academy. Academy Fellows have a demanding and important role in our community and may be responsible for any of the following, depending on the Fellow’s interests, experiences and Academy needs:

• Academy Fellows contribute to the Service learning programme, including weekend activities.
• Academy Fellows also assist in a specific administrative area such as University Counselling and Communications or contribute to the development of aspects of student life such as the Student Exchange Programme and the Enrichment Programme depending on the Academy’s needs, as well as their skills and interests.
• 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.
• Those interested in getting exposure to teaching may be assigned to a class with a teacher mentor for observing lessons or working with a teacher in working with small groups of students.
• Involvement and further development of student leadership programmes, including but not exclusive to service learning projects, student government, innovation and entrepreneurship inside and outside the classroom
• Involvement in the administrative work of offices such as Admissions.
• Coaching athletic teams, providing music lessons, teaching SAT/ACT preparatory classes, tutoring individual students or study groups
• Engagement in the Enrichment and CAS (creativity, action, service) programmes including advising students’ clubs and organisations, including introducing new activities to campus (depending on an Academy Fellow’s interests and experiences)
• Chaperoning off-campus field trips

Will play an essential role in making the academic more experiential by contributing to the creation of an outdoor education programme with direct links to the IB academic curriculum.

The requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following profile:

• Excellent academic achievement.
• 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 educate future leaders in the developing world.
• Experience of working with young people or mentoring peers.
• Outstanding networking skills and the ability to maintain, sustain and forge smart relationships
• Proactive self-starter, comfortable working autonomously.
• Experience coordinating constantly evolving projects involving complex objectives and diverse personalities.
• Knowledge of the admissions processes for highly selective North American and/or British universities. The ability to guide Academy students interested in applying to such universities would be especially helpful.
• Prior experience in the developing world is less important than openness to the learning one may experience there.

Specific technical knowledge in supporting a variety of clubs like: bike maintenance skills for racing mountain bikes, high altitude trekking, setting up outdoor equipment and activities.

Ability to track and record students’ involvement using specific apps.

A clear understanding of what experiential education is and ability to set up experiences that connect directly to the IB curriculum.

Based on current anticipated needs for 2021-22, preference will be given to individuals with a strong academic or co-curricular background and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Student leadership programmes;
• Support coordinating the rebalancing programmes for our high financial aid students and students from Tajikistan/Afghanistan/Syria/Iran, depending on the Academy.
• Coordinating students’ support programmes in Senior School
• University Counselling.
• Communications and Marketing.
• Programming related to enhancing students’ understanding of global and economic development;
• Service Programming for the schools’ various service programmes.
• Supporting Physical education/sports, mathematics, French, English Language Acquisition, and the performing arts.

Setting up experiential activities

Supervise and coordinate various experiential clubs.

Support subject teachers in their attempt to make education more experiential and transformational.

Sector

Social Development

About the Agency

The Aga Khan Academies are an integrated network of residential schools dedicated to expanding access to education of an international standard of excellence to exceptional young men and women regardless of their ability to pay. The Aga Khan Academies foundational values include pluralism, meritocracy and civil society. Housed in spacious and attractive campuses with outstanding facilities, the Academies offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Curriculum from Primary Years to the Diploma and provide a rich opportunity for both teachers and students alike to grow both professionally and personally. The first Aga Khan Academy opened in Mombasa, Kenya in 2003, the second in Hyderabad, India, in 2011, and the third in Maputo, in 2013. Others are to be built in Africa, South and Central Asia and the Middle East. More information…

Region

South Asia

Location

India

Salary

Salary and package to attract the best candidate

Job Expires

31-Dec-2021