Principal at Plumptre Advisory

Job Description

• The Principal is required to provide effective leadership and management in order to create an environment that promotes academic excellence, student well-being and a positive school community.
• The Principal's role in a full boarding school is multi-faceted, involving educational leadership, student support, community engagement, management, and strategic planning.
• The successful candidate will be expected to possess strong academic credentials, an ability to motivate and innovate as well as developing staff to secure highly effective teaching and learning.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate strategic initiatives that drive academic progress and foster exemplary pastoral care.
• Actively promote the health and wellbeing of all students and staff, ensuring the school aligns with safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Provide leadership to the Academic Team towards establishing and sustaining high-quality, expert teaching across all subjects and phases, ensuring a broad, structured and coherent curriculum which is continually assessed for its impact on learning and progress.
• Ensure a rigorous focus on student achievement, using data and assessment tools to monitor their progress, challenge underachievement and ensure students and staff fulfil their potential.
• Utilise data-driven insights to inform decision-making and shape academic strategies, overseeing the presentation of regular reports to the school leadership team and the Board, detailing academic performance, areas for improvement and strategic recommendations.
• Providing strategic leadership of school staff, ensuring that there are well-developed performance management systems in place to maintain and enhance expected achievement standards.
• Embody ethical leadership and manage staff with empathy and kindness, overcoming disadvantage, advancing equality and ensuring staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities.
• Along with the Director of Administration, ensure budgets are being adhered to, reviewed and exercise strategic, curriculum-led financial planning to ensure the equitable deployment of budgets and resources in the best interests of students’ achievements and the school’s sustainability.
• Ensure the school maintains excellent relations with parents, internal and external stakeholders, other schools, partner organisations and the local community; building the reputation of the school to ensure it is represented positively at all times.

Minimum Eligibility Requirements

• Qualified teacher with 15 years plus teaching experience (10 of which must be at Secondary School level).
• Experienced School Leader with at least 7 years of leadership experience at a high standard British international school (at least at Vice-Principal (Academics), Deputy Head, Director of Studies level).
• Minimum of a Post Graduate Degree and recognised Teacher Training Qualification.
• Experience in leading a school with the British National curriculum at secondary level and a track record of student attainment at IGCSEs.
• Well-grounded in the use technology for the workplace and for effective learning delivery.
• Strategic ability to translate the vision of the school into clear objectives that promote and sustain school improvement.
• Comfortable with managing transformational change and driving change initiatives in order to elicit measurable positive outcomes.
• Holding a National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) or its equivalent will be a distinct advantage but NOT a mandatory requirement.
• Right to work in Nigeria (this is a local contract and does not attract an expatriate quota).

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary suited to senior management (point on scale determined by background and experience). Benefits include Official Car & Driver, Housing, Health Insurance, Tuition Discount for Enrolled Children, Leave Allowance and International Professional Development Opportunities.