Description:
FAPEFE is a Non-Profit organisation,non-religious and non-political.Ecole Noula is looking for a positive, hard-working individual with a passion for education and an understanding of organizational management to serve as our Head Administrator. While this is a volunteer only position, you will gain experience in development, education, management, and finance. The first trimester will be spent mostly registering students, agreeing upon financial plans with families, maintaining up-to-date electronic documentation, hiring teachers, and managing the 22 person staff.
General duties include: student discipline, running parent and teacher meetings, running weekly staff meetings, serving as mediator to parent needs and concerns, accounting oversight, payroll, organization of school records and due dates for the Department of Education, creative ideas on how to improve the education in the classroom.
Highlights:
* Seeing your efforts directly make a difference to the lives of people around you.
* Getting to immerse yourself in vibrant Cameroonian Culture.
* Living in the great city that is Yaounde.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts (or equivalent) or higher
- Demonstrated knowledge of Africa and the developing world
- Demonstrated interest in education; whether through prior experience teaching, tutoring, academia, etc.
- Experience working in non-profits
- Experience managing, supervising, or running a project, organization, and/or business
- Experience fundraising/grant writing and interest in pursuing additional funding means for the school
- Knowledge of accounting
- Knowledge of Microsoft Access
- Comfortable with bilingual public speaking
- Ability to function well in a highly ambiguous work setting
- Commitment to 6 months to a year minimum
Absolute Requirement: Speaks French comfortably. Will determine appropriate level upon initial phone contact.
Minimum Education: High School
Intern Types:
Accounting,
Admin (Recreation, Parks)
and English as a Second Language
Language:
French
Cost in US$: 250-350 USD
Cost Includes:
Food,
Housing,
In-country orientation/Training
and In-country staff support
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
academic reinforcement,
community development,
education,
English teaching,
popular education,
primary education,
youth
and youth development
Typical Volunteer: A typical volunteer might be a student or recent graduate looking to experience a different culture and make a difference to a primary school in Africa.
Age Range: 18+
This Program is open to
Worldwide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangements:
Apartment/Flat
and Guest House
Participants Travel to Cameroon
Independently
Typically Participants Work
Independently
Application Process Involves:
- Phone Interview
- Resume
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time Is 5 days
Post Services Include:
FAPEFE's Mission Statement: Offer and promote inclusive quality education to disadvantaged women,orphans and disabled in rural areas.
Year Founded: 1990