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Rays of Hope Centre, an NGO that provides welfare, shelter and educational support to marginalised, non-schooling youngsters and street-connected children in major Urban areas in Greater Accra, including Ashaiman, Tema and Dodowa
Job Purpose
To carry out the duties of a Head Teacher in providing professional leadership for the school, to secure its success and improvement, ensuring high-quality education for all its learners and good standards of learning and achievement.
A head teacher is responsible for setting the strategic direction, managing day-to-day operations, and ensuring high-quality teaching and learning.
Key duties include:
Staff supervision, budget management, implementing safeguarding policies, monitoring student performance, and fostering relationships with parents and the community.
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Key Tasks and Activities
Role Specific
Strategic Direction and Development of the School
- To lead the school in clearly articulating its vision, in consultation with the board of directors, stakeholders, and to keep this vision under review;
- To ensure there is shared responsibility and collaborative leadership through empowering others, thereby creating capacity in the school to move forward;
- To lead on the formulation, monitoring, evaluation and implementation of policies
- To prioritise and plan the continuous professional development of staff, linked to the school improvement plan;
- To work collaboratively with the Executive Director to plan and adhere to a balanced budget which meets the needs and addresses the priorities within the school improvement plan;
- To work with the Executive Director and BODs to ensure that the school demonstrates effective financial management;
- Ensure identified weaknesses are tackled decisively and statutory responsibilities are met, by providing timely and relevant information to the Board of Directors on:
- progress against the school improvement plan;
- pupil attainment, progress and achievement;
- the quality of teaching and learning;
- actions arising from any recent audits;
- child safeguarding, bullying, exclusions, attendance and racial incidents;
- To keep under review line management systems in the school and their impact on effective communication;
- To update, understand and create policies that guide the school and its staff.
- To ensure compliance with all applicable school policies & procedures, guidance and advice, in consultation;
- To keep up to date with and share knowledge of current issues in education.
- To ensure all those involved in the school are committed to its aims and are motivated to achieve them to help the school to thrive.
Teaching and Learning
- To ensure that the school takes account of local and national initiatives and policies relevant to teaching and learning and Special Educational Needs in the delivery of a broad and rich curriculum.
- To ensure the ongoing monitoring and regular evaluation and development of the curriculum.
- To ensure that there is a Curriculum Policy, and an SEN Policy agreed and understood by all staff which sets out common standards. Ensuring these policies are effective and meet national requirements.
- To set expectations for standards in teaching, learning, progress and attainment.
- To ensure that there is regular monitoring of teaching and learning against agreed standards, with quality feedback to staff and learners.
- To seek ways of sharing best practice.
- To ensure that staff development and performance management has a strong teaching and learning focus.
- To encourage innovative approaches to meet the individual needs of ALP learners to ensure the best possible outcomes.
- To ensure that learner assessment is accurate and learner performance information is used regularly and effectively to inform planning.
- To create and maintain an effective partnership with parents and carers to support and improve learners achievement and personal development
- To assume teaching duties to cover absence
- To lead the performance management of staff, hold them accountable for their performance and deal promptly and effectively with any poor performance.
- To monitor and review staff deployment to ensure the most effective use of human resources.
- To assist HR to maintain a single central record in line with current legislation.
- To maintain links with organisations representing staff.
- To ensure staff are able to raise concerns about poor or unsafe practice;
- To ensure that the school environment is managed efficiently and that it meets the needs of the curriculum, health and safety and fire management requirements.
- To keep in mind principles of best value in the deployment of resources.
Required Skills or Experience
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in education, management
- Previous experience of working with children is essential.
- It would be desirable that the candidate has had some solid experience in managing or running a successful School.
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