School Leader - Boksburg, South Africa - Nova Pioneer

Nova Pioneer

Verified Company

Boksburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Nova Pioneer is looking for an outstanding culture and instructional leader to serve as New School Leader at our Boksburg Primary School in South Africa (Johannesburg, East Rand) This is an opportunity to help create a transformative school model with the future of Africa's youth at stake.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Nova Pioneer already has 15 schools on the continent - Nine in Johannesburg and six in Nairobi.

Prior to assuming the School Leader position, you will go through core training to get you ready to lead in the Nova Pioneer way with support, participation, and leadership in the Emerging Leaders Program.

The series of experiences will be customised based on your prior experience. These experiences include shadowing a current School Leader and gaining experience with coaching teachers using the Nova Pioneer system.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

Living the Nova Culture

Fully embrace Nova Pioneer's values and promote them to students, staff, other faculty, parents and members of the outside community
Live the culture principles inside and outside of the classroom
Maintain positive, constructive and professional relationships with teachers, students, their families, and colleagues
Attend daily team, weekly staff and other meetings that arise throughout the school year
Contribute as part of the regional leadership team to support the growth and health of the collective Nova Pioneer brand

The Head of School, with the support of the Director of Schools and the Chief Schools Officer, shall have responsibility for the following key areas:

Vision and Leadership

Managing the execution of the daily operation of the school, and support all members of the community in meeting the mission, vision and instructional model of Nova PIoneer
Articulate a compelling short

- and long-term vision for the development of the school's culture and program

Establish and maintain an extremely strong and vibrant school culture consistent with Nova's core culture principles.
Manage teaching and learning, and the academic outcomes of all learners
Manage the school leadership team, and all teachers using the Managing the Nova Pioneer Way (MNPW) framework
Plan and support the implementation of Open Days, Academic events, community events, and parentcentered events.
Create and support marketing opportunities to grow enrollment and lessen attrition.
Liaise and work collaboratively with other functions that support the school (Talent, Operations, Admissions and Marketing, etc)
Manage and support central teams in meeting regional or schoolspecific outcomes

Organisation and Administration skills

Provide overall management of the school, including the planning and overseeing of the daily timetabling of classes.
Manage the execution of the teacher duty schedules as well as morning, break time, and lunch supervision.
Support and maintain effective data management systems such as student records, teacher records, attendance, etc.
Collect, analyze, share, and interpret internal and external school assessment data and ensure that data is used strategically to improve student academic performance.
Oversee planning, execution, and analysis of intervention programs targeted at the needs of diverse academic subgroups, whether remedial or enrichment.
Develop and implement systems for report cards, MAP results, and reporting other grades to parents
With the support of the Finance team, build and manage the school budget ensuring schoolbased procurement is managed within the budget and at a high standard
With the support of the property and operations team, oversee the school facilities management ensure security, campus facilities and cleaning are up to the required standard;
With the support of the Talent team, ensure that campusrequired hiring, people development and HRrelated matters are closely managed
Manage the selected aftercare program on the campus and/ or set up and coordinate Novacare
With the support of the Marketing team, take active leadership and ownership in the school's admissions process and enrollment efforts as well as student retention.
Ensure that campusrequired hiring, people development and HRrelated matters are closely managed and communicated to relevant teams
With the support of the Marketing team, take active leadership and ownership in the school's admissions process and enrollment efforts as well as student retention

Teacher Development

Lead the coaching and development of other leaders in the school, including Deans and Grade Level leads to be exemplars in all aspects of the Nova Pioneer Model.
Oversee the attendance roster and roster of absent teachers and ensure effective teacher substitute plans as necessary
Develop a school environment which is supportive of learning and high achievement among the students.
Lead and support the monitoring and evaluation of teaching and learning across the school and c