Current opportunities

The role exists to build a high-performing, future-ready educator workforce across the Pharo Schools network by designing and embedding structured professional learning, leadership development, and sustainable talent pipelines. The role is responsible for ensuring that teachers and school leaders experience clear growth pathways, strong instructional support, and a compelling employee value proposition aligned to Pharo Schools’ academic vision, culture, and long-term impact goals. Acting as the bridge between educational strategy, pedagogy, and talent systems, the role combines professional learning design, instructional leadership development, coaching, and talent pipeline building to position Pharo Schools as an employer of choice in East Africa.

The Head of Product and Innovation will lead the design, development, and scaling of Pharo Schools’ educational products, systems, and tools. This role is central to driving high-quality, consistent, and innovative learning experiences across all schools. The position requires strategic vision, a deep understanding of curriculum and curricular design, expertise in practices of teaching and learning, operational excellence, and a hands-on approach to delivering products that enhance teaching, learning, and school operations while aligning with Pharo Schools’ mission.

You’ll design, secure, and improve our collaboration platforms (Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace) with a strong emphasis on networking fundamentals, security architecture, and data protection. You’ll translate business needs into pragmatic cloud designs, lead or support migrations and improvements, and partner with stakeholders across IT, security, and the business.

This role will play a pivotal role in growing our teams from our headquarters in Nairobi. This position cuts across the organisation with a focus on bringing in the absolute best people at our organisation in terms of talent acquisition and developing our people through talent development initiatives. 

​Key responsibilities include building talent and leadership pipelines, strengthening learning and development (L&D) processes, compliance, planning, and enhancing employee experience and culture to cultivate a high-caliber, diverse team enriched with varied experiences and backgrounds. 

The Head of Brand and Business Development, exists to cement Pharo Schools as a trusted, distinctive education brand in East Africa and beyond, translating the quality, values, and impact of Pharo’s education model into compelling narratives, content, and structured marketing and sales approaches that drive enrolment, strengthen brand equity, and build trust with families and communities and within Africa. The role is responsible for driving sustainable enrolment growth and reach, ensuring that Pharo Schools can serve over 30,000 students in the next decade without compromising educational quality, equity, or mission. By building strong brand systems at global and country level, credible storytelling, and disciplined enrolment practices, the role enables scale that is intentional, values-led, and resilient. Working in close partnership with school leaders, academic teams, and the Foundation, the role balances central brand leadership with local relevance, strengthens school-based capability, and uses insight and evidence to continuously evolve how Pharo Schools engage parents, communities.

Pharo Secondary School in Sheikh is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and dependable School Laboratory Instructor to join our dynamic Science Department. In this exciting role, you will lead and teach practical science lessons primarily in Chemistry, Biology, and Physics in alignment with the Edexcel Pearson curriculum, playing a central role in developing students’ experimental, investigative, and laboratory skills through high-quality, safe, and well-structured practical instruction, while working closely with subject teachers to enhance practical learning across the school. If you are enthusiastic about science education, committed to excellence, and eager to inspire the next generation of scientists through hands-on learning, we would love to hear from you.