Academic Quality Assurance Officer
Integrated POlytechnic Regional Center East
Total years of experience :8 years, 2 Months
Responsibilities:
- To put in place mechanism that ensures a continuously supportive learning and teaching environment
- Providing guidelines to departments on all matters concerning academic quality assurance
- Establishing the quality through self-assessment and external audit by the higher education council
- Ensuring that departments are carrying out their responsibilities in executing the approved programmers on the foundation of quality maintenance or enhancement
- To perform any other duty as may be assigned by the supervisor
Achievements:
- I designed academic rules and regulation
- I designed Academic Quality Manual
- I designed Technical Advisory Group Policy Paper
- I designed various documents for Monitoring and evaluation of academic activities
- I visited some TVET schools in eastern province for accreditation and inspection
- I do facilitate the induction of new staff and students and as well as guiding the mentor program.
- I achieved the certificate for being a trainer of INTORE in IPRC East
- I coordinate and monitor mentor-ship program
- I facilitate trainers in proper preparation of teaching documents, facilitation techniques and assessment techniques.
- I facilitate trainers to deliver in Competence Based Training and Assessment program
- I do facilitate in exam moderation where the prepared paper is on required set standards as per institution
- I quarterly make surveys on teaching and learning progress and standings so as to cope with loop holes encountered to find the solution
- I made quick reminder on academic calendar progress and implementation.
- I emphasize on students attendance monitoring
Responsibilities:
Planning, monitoring and evaluation of school development and management activities.
* Human resource development, recruitment, staffing and training
* Follow up of implementation of teaching and learning activities with respect to academic calendar * Recruitment of students, and monitoring the discipline, sports & cultural activities, ensuring drop out prevention, and creating good school environment.
* Public relations: creating relation ship between our school with different partners like government authorities, parents, schools, private sector.
* Follow up of procurement and logistics
* Ensuring accountability and transparency of monetary funds like capitation grants and school fees as well as staff motivation and etc
Achievements:
In 2013: I facilitated 2 students to achieve 3rd place award at national level organized by Ombudsman on fighting against corruption In 2012:
Together with the staff, I created 12 clubs of which one club called Unity and reconciliation club got a prize after designing a project which I facilitated in the process and this project helped the school in buying Radio, TV, Sound system and other related equipment.
Since I arrived at school I facilitated in government program to built classrooms and toilets from community efforts and since then, I left the school with 19 new classrooms, 35 toilets and the furniture s related to the school needs. I was elected by all district Head Teachers to be the Vice President of Nyagatare Sports Association due to my trust worthy I was also heading commission responsible for social matters where health and education were included and the team were responsible for following up implementation of doing district common exams. I was all along chosen as head coach of football.
Masters in Education Management and Administration involved various courses like Organizational behavior, Financial management, Managerial and Administrative ethics, Curriculum Planning and Design, Understanding the Quality of Education, Educational statistics and models, Economics of Education, Human Resource Management, Management Decision Making, Theory and Practice of Educational Supervision,
This is a four year Degree program in addition to 1 year of intensive course program of languages. I did biology courses, chemistry courses, and education courses in sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Environmental, Management, communication skills, and Computer fundamentals.