Rising Faster Coach

About this role

The context:
Across the developing world, more children than ever are in school – but they are not learning. A recent study estimated that less than 1% of school children in Sub-Saharan Africa attend a school where the teaching meets basic standards of quality. At Rising Academies, we’re changing that, and we want your help. Our mission is to create the best schools and the most powerful teaching and learning tools for the people that need it most. We’re one of the fastest-growing quality-focused education companies in Africa, and a Certified B Corp®.
About Rising Academies:
We own and operate our own great value private schools, partner with governments to improve the quality of public school systems, and use our content and technology to help other education providers. Founded in Sierra Leone in 2014, we provided emergency education to children kept out of school by the Ebola Epidemic before opening our first school in April 2015. Today, we serve more than 250,000 students across more than 1000 schools in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and now Rwanda.
And we get results: independent studies show Rising students make more than twice the progress of their peers in comparable schools. In June 2024, one of our private schools in Sierra Leone - Rising Academy Waterloo - was shortlisted in the Top 10 for the World's Best School Prizes in the Overcoming Adversity category. Sierra Leone's Minister for Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Hon. Mr. Conrad Sackey, helped announce this honor.
We keep the safety and well-being of our students at the heart of what we do. All Rising employees are expected to abide by the Child Protection Policy, and to share in our commitment to meeting the highest standards of safeguarding excellence and protecting children from harm.
About the Rising Faster Program:
The Rising Faster Program is designed to improve foundational numeracy in primary schools across Sierra Leone. The program equips teachers with structured lesson guides, regular coaching, and professional development to ensure children build strong math skills from the early grades.
Rising Faster emphasizes:

• High-quality teacher training and mentoring to strengthen classroom practice.

• Data-driven monitoring and feedback to track progress and address learning gaps.

• School support visits by coaches to provide coaching and ensure effective implementation.

• Collaboration with head teachers and communities to create safe, supportive learning environments.

• By unlocking teachers' potential and supporting school leaders, FasterMath enables students to gain the skills and confidence they need to succeed in mathematics and beyond.
About the role:
The Rising Faster Coach plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of the Rising Faster program across a cluster of schools. This position is responsible for coaching teachers, supporting head teachers, and ensuring the effective implementation of program activities that strengthen teaching and learning. The Rising Faster Coach will conduct regular school visits, provides professional development through training and coaching and ensure data is collected and used to inform decision making.
As a Rising Faster Coach you will build strong relationships with teachers and school leaders (head teachers), model professionalism, teamwork, and accountability, while unlocking their potential and improving learning outcomes for students.
The Rising Faster Coach will:

• Deliver high quality training to head teachers and teachers on program objectives and implementation, ensuring training objectives are achieved and well-managed within budget with support from Project Leads.

• Support ongoing, high quality programme implementation and improvement through regular school visits, effective stakeholder engagement, and quality monitoring and evaluation

• Collect, make timely submissions, review and use data to improve and track strategy for coaching, school improvement, teacher performance and student progress while ensuring data accuracy.

• Co-lead school improvement cycle by helping head teachers set measurable goals and co-create action plans, while ensuring accountability and ownership their school’s performance.

• Support the professional development of head teachers and teachers.

• Build respectful and trusting relationships with head teachers, teachers, and school authorities to strengthen instructional delivery, safety in schools and learning outcomes.

• Collaborate closely with program teams and project leads to model best practices, contribute to team learnings, and communicate proactively about progress and challenges for timely support.

• Ensure consistent, safe, and reliable access to transport for school visits regularly. Being able to ride a motorbike to access schools regularly is a plus.

Location and reporting:
This is a full-time position. The role will be based in our operating office in Sierra Leone. The role will report directly to the Project Lead / Program Manager in Sierra Leone. The Rising Faster Coach will be assigned a cluster of schools as their work location by the Program Manager.
Application deadline:
Applications will be on a rolling basis till 28th August 2026. The planned start date for this role is 28th August 2026.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:

• At least 2 years of teaching experience

• Demonstrated experience coaching other teachers, designing/ updating curriculum, and/ or training others on instruction is an advantage.

• Demonstrated success using data, dashboards, insights or assessment systems to drive teacher development, coaching and student achievement.

• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience leading professional learning communities or teacher workshops.

• Ability to ride a motorbike (riding license strongly preferred).

• Minimum of a Diploma in Education or related field (Bachelor’s degree preferred).
Desirable

• Experience as a head teacher or teacher trainer.

• Familiarity with…