Background

St Andrew’s School, Turi is highly respected in Kenya and regarded as one of the leading international schools in East Africa. Numbering 550 pupils, it comprises two semi-autonomous schools: a Preparatory School of circa 220 pupils between the ages of 3 and 13 and a Senior School of circa 330 pupils between the ages of 13 and 18. It is fully coeduca...

The Role

St Andrew’s Senior School is seeking to appoint two Pastoral Graduate Assistant who will assist the House Parents in the boarding house as well as support with duties around the school.

The Graduate Assistant key areas of responsibility will be:-

Responsibilities

The overarching responsibilities of the Pastoral Graduate Assistant include:

• Supporting the School’s Christian ethos
• Enhancing the pastoral care of students
• Reinforcing co-curricular and sporting provision (where necessary)
• Administrative duties (e.g. DDT, Breakfast/Lunch, Walkabouts, service, etc

Duties

The principal duties of the Graduate Assistant are to:

Ethos

• Uphold the School’s Christian ethos in both principle and practice, joining staff and pupils in prayer where appropriate
• Support Chaplaincy events

Pastoral Care

• Work within one of the boarding house teams, including pastoral duties in he evening and weekends
• Act as a role model in all areas to pupils within the boarding house around the
• Work with Houseparents’ to support individual pupils as needs arise
• Attend a weekly Boarding House team meeting
• Assist with registration of students
• To support the Houseparent with the admin tasks that are needed for boarding

Academic Support

• Act as a tutor for a group of pupils if required
• Cover academic lessons when teachers are absent
• To work within a department of choice

Co-Curricular and Sport

• Assist in the running of Co-curricular/sport
• Assist in instructing, teaching and coaching student games during E lessons, practice and competition
• Must have experience and understanding of Hockey and/or
• It would be an added advantage for the candidate to also have skills and experience in Adventure and Creative Arts (Drama, Design and Technology, Art and Music)
• Participate in the provision of the adventure program
• Support the running of the weekend activities program
• Help with the service program

Person Specification

Working at St Andrew’s, Turi, is an exciting and dynamic experience. We look to recruit committed and resourceful staff, who are looking to not only develop their skills and leadership capacities, but also embrace new experiences and challenges. There are some things that are essential to working with us. The successful candidate will need to be able to support the School’s aims and Christian ethos. They will have to have a degree in education or related field.

Beyond that we want to have staff who love working as part of a team; who are first-class communicators and who are passionate about the subjects and pupils they teach; who are creative and diligent in their planning; who are adaptable, energetic and resilient.

Experience of working in a School environment, or in boarding, would be desirable, but not essential. Above all, what matters is a commitment to help us provide a world-class education for our children.

It is essential that the applicant is a practicing Christian.

• Supporting the School’s Christian ethos
• Enhancing the pastoral care of students
• Reinforcing co-curricular and sporting provision (where necessary)
• Administrative duties (e.g. DDT, Breakfast/Lunch, Walkabouts, service, etc
• Uphold the School’s Christian ethos in both principle and practice, joining staff and pupils in prayer where appropriate
• Support Chaplaincy events
• Work within one of the boarding house teams, including pastoral duties in he evening and weekends
• Act as a role model in all areas to pupils within the boarding house around the
• Work with Houseparents’ to support individual pupils as needs arise
• Attend a weekly Boarding House team meeting
• Assist with registration of students
• To support the Houseparent with the admin tasks that are needed for boarding
• Act as a tutor for a group of pupils if required
• Cover academic lessons when teachers are absent
• To work within a department of choice
• Assist in the running of Co-curricular/sport
• Assist in instructing, teaching and coaching student games during E lessons, practice and competition
• Participate in the provision of the adventure program
• Support the running of the weekend activities program
• Help with the service program

• Experience and understanding of Hockey and/or
• Skills and experience in Adventure and Creative Arts (Drama, Design and Technology, Art and Music)
• First-class communicators
• Passionate about the subjects and pupils they teach
• Creative and diligent in their planning
• Adaptable, energetic and resilient

• Degree in education or related field
• Practicing Christian