Campus Head

The Campus Head is required to work 80% of the time within school premises with students, teachers and other staff members from Sunday to Thursday. She/he is required to be emotionally strong and be able to maintain a healthy learning and working environment. The position holder is also required to travel for attending management meetings, external workshops or meetings with external stakeholders.

The Campus Head needs to manage her time effectively and efficiently to plan, implement and monitor yearly curriculum, and learning goals, staff’s professional development needs and to meet strategic challenges on the campus.
- To develop an engaging curriculum that continually evolves as the school grows and which upholds the core underlying principles of the school and meets national standards.
- Demonstrates a high level of relevant curriculum knowledge and keeps up-to-date with routine changes in the IGCSE curriculum and other related curricula.
- Designs and implements educational and curricular plans and interventions that express the expected targets of students.

**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.

**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.

**Professional Development**

**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