Senior Education Leader

School Principal – Ibrahim Goth

The School Principal is responsible for leading a school team to achieve academic excellence and ensure a positive learning environment. Key responsibilities include:

• Promoting high standards of evidence-based learning and teaching, by monitoring school progress across key performance indicators, remaining focused on improvement of the school and of every single student.
• Recruiting, developing, empowering, supporting, encouraging, and retaining the best teachers in the school.
• Developing a culture of mutual and continuous learning, respect, collaboration, and coordination; in which every member of the school community - be teachers, students, staff members or parents - are valued.

Academic Responsibilities:

• Recruit quality teachers by ensuring the implementation of the Teacher Selection process.
• Develop a school improvement plan based on need analysis and ensure its implementation within the school.
• Monitor classroom quality through lesson planners and formal/informal classroom observations.
• Work on teacher quality through demo sessions and constant feedback.
• Monitor student performance by re-checking student copies and test papers as per policy.
• Organize, manage, and monitor co-curricular activities, timetable, assembly, periods, displays, library and laboratories, use of academic resources, and performance of weak students.
• Attend training sessions & conduct on-the-job training for faculty within the school.
• Conduct term tests and examinations in a transparent and timely manner.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Develop strong relationships with the community to create awareness regarding education for both male and female children and encourage them to join our schools.
• Ensure required students' strength is maintained within the school through effective implementation of enrolment strategies.
• Carry out effective outreach of teachers and actively maintain the CV bank at any given point in time.
• Coordinate with teams for staff hiring, retaining, performance management & other matters.
• Maintain school discipline and encourage positive character building of students & staff.
• Manage staff leaves and attendance ensuring minimal empty classroom days.
• Supervise the admin assistant in accounts & other matters.
• Maintain school accounts and ensure they are accurately managed, documented and up to date.
• Ensure maintenance of the building and premises.
• Supply and manage utility services in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with supervisor for board-related matters.
• Understand policies and ensure implementation of school activities as per policy.
• Timely submission of reports and other documents.

Leadership skills, ability to motivate self and others, communicate effectively, build real & meaningful relationships, take ownership of self-growth and of others, passionate to serve as a positive change agent.

At least Graduate degree. B.Ed and M.Ed would be preferred.

At least 2 years of teaching experience. At least 6 months of experience on the administration side will be preferred & is mandatory for secondary school principals.