Executive Position in a Leading British International School

Job Description

• Formulating overall aims and objectives for the school  and policies for their implementation.
• Meeting with other educational professionals, and representing the school at conferences and other events outside the school in local community and nationwide.
• Motivating, training and disciplining staff
• Ensuring the motivation of the pupils
• Ensuring an infrastructure is in place in which all members of staff and pupils feel they can register their opinion on serious matters and have a route via which they can communicate problems to senior members of staff.
• Managing facilities (e.g., classrooms) effectively to meet the needs of the curriculum and health and safety requirements.
• To act as the academic leader of the School, responsible for its day-to-day operation: scheduling of students, overseeing of the academic advising and counselling programs; monitoring student academic progress; address student academic emergencies; coordinating the efforts of department heads and the academic affairs committee, etc
• To oversee the coordination of the co-curricular and extra-curricular activity programs of the school; to assist in the planning and the presentation of school assemblies and programs; to assist in maintaining a comprehensive calendar of school events; to keep the entire school community informed of various school programs and activities.
• To observe, supervise and help evaluate the faculty in the development and implementation of curriculum; to supervise the teaching process, and to review and evaluate the academic programs
• To make recommendations to the  Board of Directors  regarding hiring and retention, and the assignment of facult
•  High expectations for pastoral care as well as extracurricular development
• To provide  necessary vision and personal drive to develop the school, to implement new initiatives and to improve educational standards

Requirements  Qualifications Required

• Master's degree from an accredited educational institution.
• Certification in Educational Leadership, or Administration and Supervision.
• Minimum of five (8) years classroom teaching experience and three (5) years administrative experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Skill to work with people in an effective manner.
• Knowledge of scheduling and supervision.
• Good Analytical and presentation skills
• Reports and presentation articulation
• Guidance and Counselling
• Good command of oral English language skills and writing ability
• Leadership skills

Elocution and Phonics Teacher:

• To teach Phonics and Elocution for Year one to Year six (United Kingdom English) .

Following attributes are essential:

• Presenting high quality, systematic, synthetic phonic work as the prime approach to decoding print, i.e. A Phonics first and fast approach.
• Enable children to learn phonic knowledge and skills using a systematic, synthetic programme (use of Language laboratory) by the age of 5 with an expectation that they will be fluent readers having secured word recognition skills by year one.
• Take daily sessions on phonics progressing from simple to more complex phonic knowledge and skills and covering the major Grapheme/phoneme correspondences.
• Assess children’s progress in Phonics and Elocution.
• Uses multi-sensory approach so that the children learn variously from simultaneous visual, auditory and kinaesthetic activities which are designed to secure essential phonic knowledge and skills.
• Demonstrate that phonemes should be blended and words can be segmented into their constituent phenomes for spelling and reverse blending of phonemes to read words.
• Ensure that children apply phonic knowledge as their first approach to reading and spelling. Children are taught high frequency words that do not confirm to Grapheme/phoneme corresponding rules. Children learns irregular words.
• Has the ability to plan progression of phonics teaching to from year one to Year six and know how to conduct examination, utilize elocution based software programme.
• Personal Trait: Passion in teaching phonics and elocution so that pupils speak correctly and confidently while reading, delivering speeches and contesting in debate competitions.
• Educational Qualification: A teaching certificate in phonics from a reputed institute. Minimum experience: 5 years, skill in using Language Laboratory.