2025 Post School Success Senior Associate (Tatu Girls)

Nova Pioneer is looking for a superstar Post School Success Senior Associate willing and ready to start mid October 2025 on a full-time basis.

The Post-School Success Senior Associate  is an essential role that contributes to meeting one of Nova Pioneer’s most important goals - setting our students up for success on their path to becoming leaders and innovators of the African century. You will help deliver a distinctive university and career exploration & guidance program that is integrated into everyday learning at the Nova Pioneer secondary schools. You will support our schools at Tatu City and Eldoret.  This role reports into the PSS Lead (in the absence of a PSS Manager this role would report to the Senior Director of Schools).  

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of an innovative network of schools that is developing generations of innovators and leaders who will shape the African Century.

About Nova Pioneer

Imagine a world in which every young person across Africa attends a school that truly sets them up for success in the 21st century. A school that cares about individual students and allows them to explore the world around them. A school that focuses more on developing skills than on memorizing content. At Nova Pioneer, we have done more than just imagine this future, we are bringing it to life. Nova Pioneer is a pan-African, independent network of schools offering high quality, accessible education from pre-primary through secondary school. Nova Pioneer uses a unique, inquiry-based learning approach that encourages students to ask “why” instead of telling them the “what”. It allows them to form their own thinking through exploration, investigation and collaboration. Nova Pioneer currently has 16 schools in South Africa and Kenya with a vision to launch 100 schools and reach tens of thousands of students across the African continent in the next decade. To learn more visit www.novapioneer.com.

Disclaimer: Nova Pioneer does not charge any fee to process your application.

About The Role

Key responsibilities for the role include:

Form 4’s and Grade 12 post school success support:

1. Hold office hours for one-on-one consultations with students at least twice a week in each campus to discuss their career options, college / university applications and other post-school options.  Office hours would be 4:00pm-5:30pm- Monday-Friday. 
2. Support students and families as they navigate the local university/college application process by fulfilling the following tasks and any other task/need arising from the process.
3. Continuously connecting and partnering with our strong University partners such as African Leadership University, Strathmore, USIU, Ashesi University, Africa Leadership Academy, Riara University, University of Nicosia etc.
4. Periodically train teachers on writing compelling recommendation letters for students applying to universities and colleges.
5. Teach weekly PSS classes at the schools. 

Form 3’s, Grade 10 &11 post school success support: 

1. Teach weekly PSS classes at the schools. 
2. Hold office hours to guide students on their career selection process, college/university lists and other alternative plans. 
3. Hold Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday workshops on pathway classes for students based on their declared pathways and needed next steps. 
4. Review students’ pathway selection, providing them with feedback as necessary and transferring their options onto a database for tracking. 
5. Where SATs are required, oversee the provision of SAT prep. This includes but is not limited to sharing practice resources, issuing and grading mock tests and guiding students and parents to register for the exam. 

Form 2- G 7 & 8 post school success support and introduction to pathways: 

1. Providing feedback on the vision for the PSS programming for Form 2- GR 7&8.
2. Running the PSS Student Profiles Project. 
3. Working with the Life Skills teachers, the career teachers and the Hallmark teachers to incorporate PSS lessons into their classes. 
4. Collaborate with the Deans of Instruction and Learning to guide Form 2s on subject selection and career guidance in accordance with KUCCPS course clusters and cluster subjects in each group. 
5. Conducting Form 2 parent seminars on the subject selection process and career guidance in accordance with KUCCPS course clusters and cluster subjects in each group.
6. Introduce pathways to Grade 8, and guide students to identify their passions and interests and how they match with different pathways.

Grade 9 post school success support on pathway selection:

1. Hold office hours for one-on-one consultations with students to discuss their career aspirations, interests and passions and how they align with the CBE Senior School Pathways.
2. Hold weekly lessons to guide students on the various pathways, tracks and subject options based on the KICD curriculum designs and compatibility with different careers.
3. Guide students through the pathway selection process as per the guidelines provided by KICD & KNEC and internal Nova Pioneer Pathway offering and selection process.
4. In collaboration with Deans of Instruction and Learning and School Leaders, hold parent seminars to guide them through the pathway selection process as per the guidelines provided by KICD & KNEC and the internal Nova Pioneer Pathway offering and selection process.

Pss Programming:

1. Research, identify and execute programs that support students and alumni self-exploration, student academic pursuits, extracurricular interests and career exploration.
2. Research, identify and partner with individuals and organizations that help promote students and alumni self-exploration, student academic pursuits, extracurricular interests and career exploration.
3. Creating job shadowing and internship programs. 
4. Point person for your school during the planning and execution of the annual alumni summits and get-togethers.

Data Management And Communication:

1. Using our internal database to update and track progress to goals.
2. Sending monthly process updates.
3. Weekly meetings with the PSS Lead (in the absence of a PSS Manager- biweekly meetings with thé Senior Director of Schools)
4. Ongoing communication with parents on students' progress in the post school success process. 
5. Communicating and collaborating with School Leaders and Deans to schedule students' time for post school success work and coordinate essay writing, recommendations, testing, etc. 
6. Collaborate with the Global Alumni Affairs Coordinator to track and create alumni profiles every month.

About You

Skills And Qualifications Required:

• You have a minimum qualification of a Bachelor's Degree in Education Management, College Counselling, Psychology or other related courses. 
• You have 2+ years of experience in college counselling in a secondary school or in an after high school program. 
• You are familiar with the international tertiary education space and have experience guiding students to apply to tertiary institutions abroad. 
• Strong understanding of CBE curriculum and pathways & senior school selection process.
• You are knowledgeable about various local tertiary education pathways. 
• You are conversant with research on the future of work and passionate about guiding students to navigate their career choices. 
• You enjoy working with adolescents and youth and have a track record of building strong professional relationships with this age group for effective mentorship and guidance. 
• You are a strong communicator and enjoy building relationships across teams and organizations to meet your objectives
• You have strong project management skills. You are able to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines and targets.
• You are a problem solver - you are proactive in identifying issues and address these thoroughly by making effort to find appropriate solutions.

How To Apply

Does working at Nova Pioneer excite you? If so, then apply now!

To apply, please complete the form on the right-hand side of this page. We cannot process applications that are emailed to us.

Please note:  You are encouraged to attach your resume in PDF format to protect formatting.

All applications will be reviewed and applicants notified of the next steps. There are a series of stages in the Nova Pioneer interview process and candidates will be moved forward in the process depending on their success in the previous stage. The process is as follows:

• Phone interview: a short conversation to understand your skills and experience a little better.
• Practical demonstration of what you can do: you will complete a written task or a demonstration related to the role you are applying for. Teachers participate in a half-day selection day at one of our campuses as well as deliver a lesson to a class.
• In-person interviews: at this point you will visit one of our schools to meet the team and participate in a series of in-person interviews.
• Final interview: you’ll have a final conversation with the hiring manager before decisions are made.

Working At Nova Pioneer

Nova Pioneer is a place where our people experience tremendous growth, fast! We invest heavily in the growth of our people because it leads to greater mastery in both us and our students. “Novaneers” work harder and work longer hours than most schools but as a result, the growth they experience is extraordinary. We offer consistent and ongoing personal development and provide clear career pathways that ensure that our people are always achieving their personal and professional best. Nova Pioneer has a highly energetic, entrepreneurial environment where our people get to bring their creative and innovative ideas to life. We look for people who are flexible and who are able to adapt and respond quickly to adversity with a positive, can-do attitude (there are no problems, only solutions!). We welcome challenges and roll with the punches because it makes us, and our students, better. There is no problem too big for us! We bring infectious energy and enthusiasm to everything we do because joy fuels our work and learning. Read more about our culture principles here.

Nova Pioneer will never request an application fee from candidates. If you are contacted with a request to pay a fee from someone claiming to be a Nova Pioneer Talent or Recruitment representative, please do not pay them and report it to us immediately on talent.ke@novapioneer.com or talent.sa@novapioneer.com.