Aprender (UK) Ltd
School Leadership Coach - Volunteer
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Role Overview
You'll play a critical role in delivering Aprender’s mission by training and directly supporting In-country Education Officers to become In-country Coaches. These Coaches cascade the training to teachers, school leaders, and education systems to improve the quality of student outcomes.
What Difference Will You Make?
The Lead Apto Coach is a critical role within Aprender, helping to transform the organisation from a small charity delivering programmes directly into a scalable organisation that develops local leaders, coaches, and systems capable of sustaining educational improvement independently. The role sits at the heart of Aprender’s mission, ensuring that the Apto model is implemented effectively and consistently while building long-term capacity within schools and education systems.
Key Contributions
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Increase Programme Delivery Capacity: Through training, mentoring, and supporting education officers, school leaders, and accredited Apto Coaches, the Lead Coach enables Aprender to reach more schools and educators without relying solely on a small central team. This creates the foundation for growth and expansion across multiple countries and contexts.
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Maintain Programme Quality: As Aprender scales, there is a risk that delivery becomes inconsistent. The Lead Apto Coach helps prevent this by providing observation, coaching, feedback, and quality assurance. By supporting educators to implement best practice and continuously improve, the role ensures that schools receive a high-quality experience and that the integrity of the Apto model is maintained.
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Develop Local Ownership: Rather than creating dependence on external support, the Lead Coach develops local ownership by strengthening the skills and confidence of coaches, education officers, and school leaders. This helps create self-sustaining systems of professional development that continue long after individual projects have ended.
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Contribute to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: Through lesson observations, coaching records, impact monitoring, and programme evaluation, the Lead Coach helps build the evidence base needed to demonstrate educational improvement. This evidence is increasingly important for attracting larger funders, government partners, and strategic collaborators.
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Strengthen Partnerships: The Lead Coach strengthens relationships with schools, NGOs, education officers, and government stakeholders. By working closely with partners and understanding their needs, the role helps identify opportunities for growth, collaboration, and system-level change.
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Reduce Dependence on Senior Leadership: The Lead Apto Coach reduces Aprender’s dependence on senior leadership by distributing expertise and responsibility across a wider team. In doing so, the role becomes a key driver of impact, quality, sustainability, and scale.
Essential Requirements
Programme Delivery & Coaching
- Experience in teaching and school leadership at Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher level
- Experience in coaching staff members
- Ability to facilitate adult learning and professional development
- Data collection, analysis, and evaluation experience
- Previous project management experience
Cross-Cultural Work
- Experience working in diverse or low-resource contexts
- Strong cultural awareness and adaptability
Behaviour Change Focus
- Understanding of how to support sustained changes in practice
- Ability to translate theory into practical action
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Communication & Relationships
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Ability to communicate clearly across different audiences
Personal Qualities
- Humility, resilience, and adaptability
- Commitment to Aprender’s mission and values
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- A reflective practitioner
Desirable Requirements
- Experience in international education or development
- Coaching qualification or training
- Experience using digital learning tools
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Key Responsibilities
The Lead Apto Coach plays a central role in delivering Aprender’s mission to improve the quality of teaching, leadership, and learning outcomes in low-resource educational contexts. The role combines programme delivery, coaching, capacity building, quality assurance, partnership management, and impact evaluation to ensure that educational improvement is both effective and sustainable.
- Establishes and maintains strong relationships with clients and partners, managing projects from initiation through to completion.
- Delivers training programmes that enable education officers to become accredited Apto Coaches.
- Supports school improvement through structured coaching and professional development.
- Focuses on capacity building and sustainability by developing local ownership of the Apto model.
- Monitors, evaluates, and learns from programme delivery to ensure high quality and capture evidence of impact.
- Builds positive relationships with schools, government officials, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
- Contributes to organisational learning and communications by providing case studies, success stories, and examples of impact.
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