Campus Leadership

Overview

Supportive & Secure Learning Environment

• Ensures creating a positive and inclusive school climate focused on a culture of learning.
• Ensures a safe, secure and healthy learning environment for all students, staff and visitors.
• Ensures equal opportunities for all, free from harassment, bullying or discrimination.
• Ensures an orderly and safe environment so that everyone in the school, students and staff, feels safe and supported.

Improving Learning and Instructional Practices

• Mentors and coaches staff
• Reviews and develops instructional learning programs
• Talent retention
• Provides constructive and quality feedback
• Monitors students’ learning, collaborating with staff to collect data about student learning and using it for decision-making.
• Teaching or training groups of teachers in appropriate subjects or technical disciplines as required by the teaching and learning.

Setting Directions for School

• Shares vision and mission (communication and implementation of the school’s values, vision and mission)
• Identifies short-term and long-term goals for the campus.
• Aligns campus goals with the school’s broader perspective
• Models school values and policies; leads by example to uphold the vision and values of the school, operating at all times within the stated policies and practices of the school
• Allocation of Resources
• Aligns school’s resources with development needs and school priorities
• Focuses on using resources in strategic ways for maximum impact on student learning

School Development

• Connects school to the wider community
• Encourages open communication
• Engages staff in decision making
• Identifies development opportunities for school
• Allocates school resources to support school priorities
• Develops a system of monitoring and evaluation that encourages a whole school ethos of mutual support and continual improvement and supports the Principal in the compilation of the self-evaluation, documentation and school improvement planning
• Develops and leads monitoring, assessment and intervention programmes for students’ progress that raise student achievement and enable the school to meet or exceed its target performance.

Staff Development

• Building staff and school’s capacities and commitment
• Creates a Learning network
• Provides Mentoring/ coaching
• Plans and identifies professional development opportunities for staff
• Develops programs of CPD that support the vision and targets of the school and meet the professional development needs of the staff.
• Ensures that all teachers engage in suitable professional development activities to ensure successful implementation of the desired curriculum
• Ensures that the professional development programmes meet the specific needs of teachers and the requirements of the strategic plan
• Maintains an appropriate balance between internal and external professional development opportunities
• Maintains evidence that the professional development programmes are positively influencing classroom practice and learner achievement.
• Keeps up-to-date with research and developments in pedagogy
• Participates in leadership, peer, and self-monitoring and evaluation schemes
• Contributes to departmental development by sharing professional learning, expertise and skills with others in the team
• Actively engages in the school’s appraisal procedures
• Encourage all staff to be continually active in their own professional development and to design CPD activities that give staff opportunities to grow professionally.

Interpersonal Relationships

• Builds trust and respectful relationships with management, staff, students, parents and other stakeholders including providing support and capacity building
• Encourages conflict resolution and follows grievance procedures; resolving conflicts between students, teachers, parents or combinations of conflicts between various individuals.
• Builds trust and respect among staff and with other stakeholders; ensures students and staff maintain high standards of professional conduct and respect.
• Meets with staff and parents to discuss policies, educational activities a students’ learning or behavioural problems.
• Provides counsel and guidance to students regarding academic, personal, behavioural or vocational issues, along with enforcing attendance and discipline rules.
• Responds immediately to concerns from parents and school board administrators
• Proactively develops strong educational relationships with partner organizations.
• Maintains high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance, conduct and positive, courteous relations with students, parents and colleagues.

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent