Consultancy

Is your School looking for professional advice, training or other forms of consultancy? Are you looking for a quality training provider?

Are you looking to set up a British/American curriculum school in Nigeria or need International school partnerships and advising for your students /school and need support in doing so?

‘‘The foundation of strong school improvement is a realistic plan that identifies the key areas for development. Our experienced consultants can help guide you through this minefield and develop a plan that sits front and centre in your school improvement efforts”.

Who Are We

Our Consultancy Service offers professional consultancy services to educators in all fields including both new start-ups and established institutions. To provide this service, we draw upon a vast pool of experienced consultants, with a successful track record of providing custom solutions to institutions across the world.

We provide a range of consultancy services to schools and colleges designed to address and overcome the key obstacles to school improvement and advancement which encompasses the effective development of the whole school workforce.

Our consultants have years of experience in assisting schools to become smarter in the way they evaluate their own performance and implement change. Our outcome focussed approach means that your plan will become the guarantee of future successes.

Our involvement can be as little or as much as your needs dictate. This allows you the time to continue to concentrate on running your school whilst we advise on, and help implement new programmes or changes.

Our services are suitable for a wide variety of educational institutions, such as privately run schools, foundations, NGO’s, government run schools, major corporations or investment groups, new start-ups, private colleges, universities and academies. We have a wealth of experience in providing consultancy services to a huge range of education institutions across the globe. Our experts have a collective background of participation in the development and management of many types of institution. Some of the many institutions our consultants have worked with include:

International schools
For-profit or non-profit institutions
Institutions running curriculum from the US, UK, Canada or other regions
Religious institutions
Language institutions
International schools
Private colleges
On line institutions

How can we help

Working together with the CEO’s and Boards of our client organizations, we can determine how best to help the organization achieve its goals and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their institution.

As part of the customized solutions we can offer, we can help with:

New institution set up
Strategic and future planning
Board governance
Institution management
Financial planning and resource management
Evaluation and support for the institution heads
Coaching for board chairs and institution heads
Curriculum development and teacher training
Institutional assessments
Regulatory requirements
Climate and faculty culture improvement
Crisis and change management
Institution and faculty recruitment
Marketing and recruiting
International student recruitment
International curriculum development

Among the many individual services, we provide as part of our institution development process, you can benefit from our help in:

Developing a compelling and unique vision for your institution
Creating a strategic work plan, mission, values, core goals, and operational plan
Developing a business plan for the start-up and initial five-year budget for your organization and supporting your ongoing financial plans
Recruitment and training of the key senior administration and board personnel to build a strong leadership team
Managing personnel needs, recruitment, contracts and job descriptions
Building your educational program and curriculum
Determining what initial program to offer and the phase-in stages for later ones.
Aligning your marketing plan with your vision to ensure you meet demand
Development of international partnerships
Arrangement for validation services
Establishing systems to manage students, records and accounting
Support in developing a procurement process
Preparation of staff policies, handbooks and manuals for staff, students and parents
Preparing for national and international accreditation.

Our Approach

Our tailor made solutions For starting your school or Improving your school (ideas to develop the school) is arrived at after doing a detailed study of your past milestones, understanding your future goals, getting in depth knowledge of the market you operate

Solutions: Our team is equipped to work on providing an end to end solution making us a one stop shop for all your school requirements.

Specific assignments: We will be glad to assist you with specific advice / solutions (school management consultancy services) tailor made to suit your needs.

Our team arrives at a comprehensive solution based on our experience with a step by step implementation process within defined timeframes.

We phase the actionable into critical, important, should be done while phasing them into immediate, in the near term, in a planned term.

Our team experienced in dealing with the various variables impacting a good school, will table a solution accordingly. Our varied experience across geographies & various verticals of education make the solution arrived at comprehensive, easy to execute within defined timeframes.

Working Steps

Step 1 is to know you better

Our team works towards understanding you better. We will make a detailed note of your achievements and understand the expectation you have from our engagement. Our team then gets down to doing an in depth analysis of the desired project by interviews with all the stakeholders involved in the project.

Step 2 is to do an expectation match and arrive at a plan

Our team then tables our understanding of the scope of work and phases out the variables to be addressed with defined timelines.
Our team has vast experience of setting up of schools right from project planning, land short listing, feasibility studies, business plan, project management, legal advice, financial structuring human resources, marketing, affiliation advisory and more.

Step 3 is to tailor make the solution to match agreed expectation and work on implementation

Step 4 is to document a proposal

We will then document a proposal spelling out the scope and responsibilities of the work agreed upon for either side.

Step 5 is to operate and manage the agreed plan

Our team of experts will operate the agreed plan within defined timeframes and bring your school management on board by handholding them through the new phase of the project.

Leadership Recruitment

Whether you are faced with an unexpected absence or are looking for a new permanent member of staff, our Consultancy Services can provide the solution. We recruit exclusively for the education sector.

Whether you need senior or middle leaders, project managers, School Improvement Partners or a team to turn a school around, we have the right candidates for you, experienced, up-to-date and ready to start work.

With our comprehensive database of senior and middle leaders, we can save you hours of wading through unsuitable CVs and provide high-quality candidates for leadership positions immediately.

Don’t let a resignation or unexpected absence have a negative impact on the staff and pupils in your school

Quality Assurance

To ensure we remain able to deliver the high quality service our customers demand, we keep a commitment to rigorous self-evaluation, improvement and quality assurance. We regularly review our process and progress as well as customer feedback to ensure that we deliver the best service possible. Our consultancy has also been specifically accredited under a number of quality assurance schemes.

As every institution is unique and has individual needs, we believe it is important to provide bespoke advice and guidance to those we work with. In the last two years, many of our institutions have enjoyed the benefits of a tailored consultancy service during which they can visit our office to talk about specific issues relating to them.

For more information contact: +234 806 779 1250 or hello@olajumokeakere.com