KZN Club Coach

Key Responsibilities

SmartStart Club Coaches are mentors to our network of early learning
practitioners (SmartStarters) who run their own independent preschool social
enterprises.

• SmartStart coaches recruit new
  SmartStarters.
  
• They license and quality assure all the
  SmartStart practitioners.
  
• Build and encourage the SmartStart clubs
  (networks of SmartStarters).
  
• Drive and create understanding of and demand
  for quality early learning and importantly to coach and develop
  SmartStarters to gain new skills and capacities.
  

Requirements

Qualifications

• Educated to tertiary level preferable
  (Community Development degree advantageous).
  
• At least a year’s experience in a
  coaching/mentoring/ facilitation role and/or a management/coordinating
  role.
  
• Three years’ experience of ECD or a closely
  related sphere.
  
• A valid driver’s license and own transport.
  

Desirable

• Experience in the non-profit and/or
  development sector.
  

Competencies

• Ability to maintain effective quality
  assurance systems.
  
• Ability to collect and manage qualitative
  and quantitative data.
  
• Ability to manage others effectively, to
  motivate, to elicit high performance and to facilitate personal and
  professional development in a supportive way.
  
• Ability to work independently,
  problem-solve, be flexible and take the initiative when presented with
  challenges.
  
• Ability to build and maintain excellent
  working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the SmartStart
  network and beyond, and to work as part of a cohesive and supportive team,
  including the ability to work effectively with people from different background.
  
  

Abilities, Skills, and Attributes  

• Excellent organisational and planning skills
  – including demonstrable experience of operationalising appropriate
  systems and procedures, and of records management.
  
• Excellent management skills – including the
  ability to fulfil reporting, budgeting, and other requirements, and to
  ensure compliance with internal policies and standards.
  
• Good English written and oral communication
  skills.
  
• Proficiency in MS Office – including Word,
  Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook – and in internet search and use.
  
• Fluency in the dominant language of the area
  in which a coach is needed.