IB Middle Years Programme Teacher at Ntare Louisenlund Community Benefit Company: (Deadline 15 June 2024)

IB Middle Years Programme Teacher at Ntare Louisenlund Community Benefit Company: (Deadline 15 June 2024)

IB Middle Years Programme Teacher

Ntare Louisenlund School is seeking innovative and committed teachers for our international curriculum boarding school. Can you imagine helpings to design the school of the future by promoting personalised learning, student agency, and twenty-first century skills? If so, please consider applying.

We’re looking to fill the following position for Ntare Louisenlund School (international curriculum) starting on 1st August 2024: competent and committed teachers of English, German, Kinyarwanda, French Integrated Humanities, Interdisciplinary Sciences, Mathematics, Visual Arts, Music and PE to join our faculty (full time/part-time possible).

Who we are:

Ntare Louisenlund School (Rwanda) aims to be the best school in Africa. With the Rwanda plus-STEM programme, it will bring together the best talents from Rwanda in the fields of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology and act as a hub for training innovation and entrepreneurship and for shaping the future. The 60-hectare campus located in Rwanda’s Bugesera District, a forty-five minute drive from Kigali, can accommodate up to 1000 boarding students.

The aim of Ntare Louisenlund School is to provide students with an outstanding international education, allowing them to apply for scholarships at the best universities worldwide. Half of the student body will be selected through a preliminary assessment and financed by appropriate scholarships (plus-STEM stream). The other half of the student body will be made up of students from Africa who wish to complete the IB Diploma as a school-leaving certificate. Their families will finance the schooling themselves. Ntare Louisenlund School is seeking candidacy as an IB World School offering the IB Middle Years Programme and, later, the Diploma Programme.

Stiftung Louisenlund has been running a secondary boarding school in Germany for over 70 years and has developed the plus-STEM programme. It is considered to be one of the top schools in Europe. The non-profit foundation has been an IB World School offering the IB Diploma Programme since 2008 and has been authorized to offer the IB Middle Years Programme since. Additionally, Stiftung Louisenlund is an accredited New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) school and a member of the Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG).  Ntare Louisenlund School will be a private school run and managed by Stiftung Louisenlund. All activities will be of a comparable quality at both locations in Germany and in Rwanda. A close partnership will be established with the Rwandan government to select the plus-STEM students eligible for a government scholarship.

Your challenge and responsibilities:

You will have the opportunity to help young people develop as independent personalities, to cultivate their talents, and to strengthen their intellectual curiosity. Small courses of 20 students enable differentiated teaching and learning. In addition to teaching courses, you will mentor students and support them in self-regulating their learning. Our newly constructed, picturesque, state-of-the-art campus provides an ideal working environment for educators and learners. An innovative spirit and new ideas to help us shape a Ntare Louisenlund Pedagogy for the 21st century are welcome.

Your profile:

• You have a teacher certification and/or experience working as a teacher (preferably in the IB Middle Years Programme or Diploma Programme).
• Masters degree is desirable and a Bachelor’s degree is the minimum with 5 years of continuous experience
• You are passionate about your subject area and enthusiastic about working together with young people.
• You are interested in working to shape the Nature Louisenlund Pedagogy for the 21st century.
• You are willing to familiarize yourself with the unique pedagogical concept of Nature Louisenlund and to take part in professional development workshops, as well as the school development process.
• You are passionate about and/or supportive of the school’s focus on excellence in holistic, STEM education.
• You speak and write English fluently and are competent in using English as a language of instruction (exceptions include foreign language courses).

We offer:

• A fully equipped school campus with excellent facilities in a beautiful natural setting in Bugesera.
• Optional campus housing on a first-come-first-serve basis.
• An exceptional in-house professional development programme with travel opportunities for further IB professional development.
• Small learning groups.
• An extensive and diverse co-curricular programme and the possibility of taking part in or offering co-curricular experiences for students.
• Collaboration with an experienced, internationally recognized school in Germany.
• Various partnerships with external educational partners.
• A committed, dedicated, and team-oriented faculty.
• An attractive compensation package based on your level of experience. This figure includes the staff housing allowance. All staff salaries are paid in RWF.

How to Apply:

Can you imagine working to help us design the school of the future? Then you should apply by 15th June 2024 to [email protected] and share an updated CV, motivation letter and certified electronic copies of degrees and relevant certificates. CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.