Head of School
Reports to: Board of Directors
Serves on: Leadership Team
Starts July 2024
The Opportunity:
KICS vision is to impact the world for Christ by preparing servant leaders who choose character before career, wisdom beyond scholarship, service above self, and a lifestyle of participation over apathy.
Located in Rwanda, a country that has set clear and challenging goals for its future development and growing in its influence across the region, KICS is positioned to play an increasingly important role in supporting these aspirations through nurturing the servant leaders required to make this a reality.
Building upon the solid foundation and good work underway at KICS, the new Head of School will have the opportunity to provide strong visionary, spiritual, and strategic leadership, by articulating the school’s guiding principles (the KICS way), promoting its vision and value proposition, and by inspiring, encouraging, and caring for the students, faculty, staff, families, and friends that encompass the entire KICS community.
The Head of School is responsible for overseeing the operations of the school and providing spiritual, educational, and administrative leadership to the school. It is the job of the Head of School to inspire, lead, and direct all phases of the school’s operations, programs, budget, personnel, and environment in accordance with the direction and policies established by the KICS Board.
In addition, the Head of School is entrusted with maintaining and encouraging the school’s Christian ethos through spiritual leadership of the school.
The Head of School is appropriately remunerated including additional benefits (for example related to travel and housing).
The Head of School will continue the required momentum to achieve the full possibilities of the new “Vision for the Future” Campus and strengthen the school community’s appreciation and understanding of the KICS Way. This leader will nurture and perpetuate KICS’ intentional culture, steward the school and its resources with integrity, consider the priorities of the school when faced with difficult decisions.
Head of School Qualities:
The following are a list of qualities that should describe the KICS Head of School:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Application Process:
There are four stages to the selection process. At every stage successful candidates will be notified of their progression to the next stage.
Stage 1- Please submit the following to hossearch@kicsrw.org to initiate your application:
Stage 2- Successful candidates will be contacted to complete the following:
Stage 3- Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Stage 4 - Successful candidates will be invited to an in-person site-visit at KICS in Rwanda.
Application Timeline:
Deadline for initial applications is 2nd April 2023
Applications accepted from January 2023 – 2nd April 2023 Evaluation of candidates: Until March 2023
Interviews: End of April 2023
Finalists will have site visit: April/ May 2023
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Secondary Social/Emotional Counselor
Reports to: Director of Academics
Serves on: Student Services Team
Required Qualifications:
● Passion for serving God in the context of education and counseling
● Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or Master’s Degree in School Counseling or related field
● Experience working with students aged 11-18
● Willingness to become ACSI certified
Preferred Qualifications:
● Two or more years in a secondary counseling role
● Two or more years of successful counseling experience
● Prior experience with teaching
● Prior experience in an international school
Role Specific Responsibilities:
Social and Emotional Counseling
● Support the vision, mission, and values of KICS
● Develops and implements social emotional education for all secondary
● One-on-one counseling for academics or social emotional student needs
● Develops relationships with outside counseling offices and refers students when needed
● Works to advocate for students’ mental health
● Participates in the student of concern meetings to develop interventions for struggling
learners
● Lead weekly small groups for students based on their needs (leadership, anxiety, stress
management, looming transition..)
● Conducts research to stay up to date on trends in counseling
Teaching and Advisory
● Teaches grade 8 seminar (preparing for transition courses)
● Leads a Mission and Advisory Group - a small group of students that connect regularly
throughout the week and year
● Establishes, prepares, and implements secondary-wide advisory curriculum (weekly touch
point with small groups based on student needs)
Additional Responsibilities
● Collects data for alumni and supports in creating the annual school profile
● Other duties as assigned
Professional Characteristics:
● Counsels/teaches/leads from a Christ-centered worldview
● Effectively collaborates in team settings
● Critical thinker and problem solving
● Self-motivated - uses time effectively
● Operates from a growth mindset, able to reflect, learn, and progress
● Articulates high expectations with students, parents, and colleagues
● Shows a love of learning that translates into a positive, rigorous classroom/office culture
● Embraces diversity and values the contributions of each individual
● Utilizes technology to enhance student learning and partner with parents
● Exhibits a passion for equipping students to think critically, solve problems, and exercise
self-discipline
● Interacts with people in a culturally intelligent manner
● Extremely organized
● Strong communication skills (oral and written)
● Counseling philosophy that is rooted in Christ and the truth of scripture
● Sees the big picture and plans ahead for what comes months down the road
● Lives out faith in a way that facilitates discipleship, mentoring, and relationship building with
students
Learning Support Coordinator/ Special Ed Teacher
Reports to: Director of Academics
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Professional Characteristics:
Role Specific Responsibilities:
Primary Teacher
Reports to: Primary Principal
Serves on: Primary Team
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Professional Characteristics:
Role Specific Responsibilities:
Click the button below to learn about “The KICS Way”
Vision: To impact the world for Christ by preparing servant-leaders who choose character before career, wisdom beyond scholarship, service above self, and a
lifestyle of participation over apathy
Mission: The mission at KICS is to provide a Christ-centered, U.S. accredited primary and secondary education that challenges students to excel academically and live out
a biblical worldview.
Values: Servant leadership, Christ-centered, global family, customization, and life-long learners.
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