Model Org Chart
There are many individuals involved to ensure that the schools are successful. Sustainability is not simply a matter of money-- to ensure school operations year after year, it is important to distribute responsibilities and provide checks and balances. It is also critical that the schools are owned by the community, not just in name but also in practice, so that the parents, leaders, and villagers have an active stake in the well-being of the school.
Each district of 10 schools handles up to 2,400 students and is managed by the following organizational structure. Parent Teacher Associations and Village Headmen play a supporting role and are accountable directly to the Community Education Officer.
Community Education Officer
Oversees the entire operation of the school district. Uses a motorbike to visit each of the 10 schools bi-weekly. Is in regular contact with the PTA and headmen, smoothing out any problems.
Social Enterprise Manager
Skilled in business. Handles operations and collections of the social enterprises at the schools. Hires and manages the individual Social Enterprise Workers.
IT Manager
Handles all technical aspect of the e-learning and social enterprises, including solar panel, projector, and laptop repairs.
Assistant Community Education Officer
Handles all bookkeeping and communications for the district. Provides weekly reports to Impact Network (or government supervision in the future).
Teacher Supervisor
Certified teacher who manages 5 schools that they visit and observe once a week. Manage the teachers and also hold weekly interschool lesson planning meetings. Provide ongoing training to improve the quality of our uncertified teachers.
Head Teacher
Local uncertified teacher who both teaches classes and has a level of authority within the school. Reports to the Teacher Supervisor.
Teacher
Local uncertified teacher that typically has completed grade 12. Reports to the Teacher Supervisor. Each teacher has between 1 and 3 classes of 40 students.
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Helps in many volunteer capacities, including monitoring of the school facility, assistance with social enterprises, collection of tuition money, and other fundraising activities.
Headmen
The local traditional political authorities. Support the schools morally as well as financially, committing to donate K2,000,000 ($400) per year for operations. Each village has one headman and typically 5 to 10 villages feed into each school.