Job Details

  • Deadline: Not specified
  • Company: PEAS
  • Location: Mayuge, Kumi and Amuria, Uganda
  • Category: based role, you should be committed to working closely with schools and providing practical, hands-on support.
  • Application: Email: info@peas.org.uk

Job Description

3 Senior School Support Officer, School Network Jobs – PEAS Uganda

This job falls under

Education Jobs in Uganda

,

NGO – Non-Government Organisations Jobs in Uganda

Job Title

Senior School Support Officer, School Network (3 Positions)

Organisation

PEAS Uganda

Duty Station

Mayuge, Kumi and Amuria, Uganda

Start Date

1st August 2026

About Organisation

PEAS is an international education not-for-profit organisation with the mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered, quality secondary education across Africa’. Since 2008, PEAS has built and operated high quality low-cost not-for-profit secondary schools in close partnership with government in communities where there is urgent unmet demand for secondary education. We currently run 28 secondary schools in Uganda and 4 in Zambia serving over 15,000 students.

About PEAS Technical Team

PEAS is an international education not-for-profit with the mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered, quality secondary education across Africa’. Since 2008, PEAS has built and operated high quality low-cost not-for-profit secondary schools in close partnership with government in communities where there is urgent unmet demand for secondary education. We currently run 30 secondary schools in Uganda, serving over 17,400 students.

After a number of rigorous external studies in recent years, we know that our school model works. In Uganda, PEAS students are from the poorest communities and have worse primary school exam results than average. However, once they enrol in a PEAS school, they go on to make faster academic progress than their more privileged peers. Importantly, this is achieved at a lower cost per student than in other school types.

The Opportunity

This is a key role at PEAS. The Senior School Support Officer provides direct support to schools and is responsible for improving performance in partnership with school staff. Success in this role requires someone who enjoys building relationships and mentoring others. You will need a clear understanding of what makes a great school and a strong commitment to delivering that for every PEAS student. You should be a respected educator whose judgement is trusted by staff and communities, and who is willing to make difficult decisions to uphold the PEAS mission and approach in every school and classroom. As this is a field-based role, you should be committed to working closely with schools and providing practical, hands-on support.

The Senior School Support Officer will provide direct support to schools and is responsible for improving performance in partnership with school staff. Specific responsibilities may adjust depending on the specific background of the successful applicant.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

School supervision

School impact: Fully accountable for driving performance across Access, Quality and Sustainability in a cluster of 3-5 PEAS schools, line managing the School Leaders of each school and sharing their goals.

School compliance: Ensure that schools are operating in accordance with PEAS and GoU policies.

Performance management: Work alongside the Head of School Network to deliver annual performance appraisal of school leaders.

School support

Build a strong positive cluster culture where all schools identify and are proud to be part of their cluster, promoting healthy relationships, collaboration and support to one another.

Deliver high quality coaching to school leaders and training for teachers.

Coordinate all support from other teams within PEAS Country Office, ensuring that support is delivered when it is needed but is never a distraction from the key activity of educating our students.

Support school leaders to set, review and implement school improvement plans.

Support schools with teacher recruitment and deliver high quality teacher inductions

Interpret and use school-level data to provide relevant and practical support to schools including how to use the functionalities of their School Information System effectively.

Conducting lesson observations alongside school instructional leadership teams and provide high quality feedback and action steps which are routinely followed up.

Responsible for ensuring key communications are shared between the schools and country offices

Serve as the Child Protection Focal Person for their cluster, delivering child protection training at school-level and leading investigations and case management.

Representing PEAS in our schools and communities

Attend all BoG meetings for all assigned cluster schools.

Identifying, inducting and training BoG members

Attend and speak at community and BoG community engagement activities.

Support school leaders with community engagement and marketing/enrolment activities

Will see as an independent advisor for case management and principal or support investigator wherever a Child Protection, Adult Safeguarding, Anti-Corruption, or Staff Disciplinary concern arises.

Inspections

Be seconded for up to 3 weeks each year to another region within Uganda to serve as Junior Inspector during the inspection of up to 5 schools in another cluster.

Uphold PEAS’ standards through the PEAS inspection process, and act as a confidential and independent quality assurer alongside the Senior Inspector.

Line Management

Build a strong team spirit aligned with PEAS values and culture; offering leadership, motivation and support for employee development

Set clear goals and high expectations of those that you line manage, hold regular 1-2-1s to discuss progress towards goals and carry out annual progress reviews in line with PEAS annual progress cycle

Recognise and encourage strong performance of team members and address poor performance effectively and efficiently

Wider impact

Reserve 10% time to work on special projects which can benefit the whole school network (e.g. Livelihood project; pedagogy review project)

Upon occasion, work with the UK Technical Team to share PEAS expertise with external organisations and/or deliver a project to support a partner organisation

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Bachelors in Education

Minimum of two years’ experience serving as a school leader

Experience in delivering training to school leaders and teachers

Background knowledge in Child Protection and Safeguarding practices

Experience working in rural communities and passion for work in the field

Driving license for car or motorcycle (and willingness to self-drive)

Strong understanding of school governance structures in Uganda and/or previous experience in school governance

Desire to learn and quickly build knowledge of international best practices across pedagogy, assessment, teacher and leader training and development.

And who is...

Able to analyse, interpret and use school data to inform school support

Adaptable, flexible and resilient

Strong communicator, able to motivate and persuade others

Able to model excellent teaching and learning

Independent self-motivated worker, able to tackle challenging situations with professional maturity

Excellent line management skills; and/or commitment to becoming a great line manager

Able to be based in rural locations, near schools with frequent travel

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the link https://tinyurl.com/3t2y3dwv to complete the application form and email your CV to recruitment-ug@peas.org.uk

The closing date for ALL applications is 21st July 2026 at 5Pm EAT .

Should we receive a high number of suitable candidates. Due to high volumes of applications, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to ensuring our opportunities are accessible to all, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be in the recruitment process, please do get in touch by e-mail on

info@peas.org.uk

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Apply by email: info@peas.org.uk