Field Supervisor

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrates abilities to work effectively in a culturally diverse environment with excellent verbal and written skills in English and IsiZulu or a local language spoken within the community.
• Maintains a strong working relationship with the project’s management, teaching teams and staff.
• Provides supervision and guidance to staff at playhouse, and would conduct performance evaluation for all staff according to policies and procedures.
• Ensures high-quality classroom standards including program assessment and monitoring of a children’s progress.
• Conducts regular team meetings, case reviews, and consultation meetings which include written agendas and meeting minutes.
• Ensures playhouse learning, meeting, and counselling areas to meet the standards of the project.
• Perform as a team leader and develop team-thinking skills that include reflective thinking and critical evaluation to ensure compliance with all required ECD centre requirements, as well as construction and legislative requirements of the site.
• Intervene with suggestions and corrective measures when co-workers are displaying practices that are not adhering to policies and procedures
• Assists in the monitoring of all licensing requirements and recommends a plan of actions to ensure requirements are met; consults with Leads to seek input prior to implementing recommended plans of action.
• Coordinates field trips and special outings in consultation with the Project Manager and parents whose children attend the playhouse site.
• Required to perform the responsibilities of a Head Teacher in the classroom when ECD Practitioners are not available, i.e. in instances of taking leave.
• Ensures required paperwork and reports are submitted in a timely manner; reviews children’s files to make sure all required documents are updated and files both in soft copy and electronic files, as well as for those availing MH services.
• Develops, maintains, and reviews a daily system of communication to staff and parents to ensure clarity and consistency around playhouse practices.
• Practices and ensures that food service guidelines, including nutritional components of meals served, meet the established written policy and procedures and are in line with the nutritional guideline policies.
• Maintain centre inventory of supplies and teaching materials and ensures that all inventory items are replenished timeously.
• Monitors the centres environment and proactively takes actions to ensure the centre is clean, presentable to clients, and meets required centre requirements
• Serves as a liaison between Leads and on-ground staff, and facilitating functional reporting for ease of programmatic delivery.
• Tracking and ensuring recording of field vehicle logs, nutrition logs, and other equipment.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the line manager.