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Regional Principal

Job Posted: 18 days ago

  • Salary: Competitive

    Job Type: Permanent

  • Location: South East

Expire in: 10 days

Job Description

The Role The Regional Principal is responsible for a group of schools across the South East Region, ensuring consistency in the delivery of the curriculum and school operations in line with the school’s vision, values, and strategy. Strategically directing to build a high-performance team aligned with the school’s values, ensuring accountability for delivery of ambitious strategic goals. Working with local teams, the Board and Regional Team Leaders to ensure rigorous governance. What you’ll be doing… * Strategically coach and lead all School Principals to build a high-performance team and to ensure the ethos, values and guiding principles of the school are maintained. * Strategically lead implementation of the school’s learning framework within every school, ensuring it is the founding principle in all teaching and learning programs within Primary and Secondary. Understood by everyone – students, staff and parents. Educator and Leadership development: * Ensure that all School Principals understand and are held accountable for their responsibilities. * Strategically direct and lead to ensure Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning, leadership, student outcomes, stakeholder engagement and governance across Schools within the region. * Provide professional coaching and mentoring to direct reports to develop the quality, consistency, accountability and impact of leadership at every level in the School. * Direct the work of Principals to ensure a program of professional coaching, mentoring, and line management for staff that is individualised, value-adding and fully aligned to the school’s vision, values and strategy. * Provide reports from school visits that summarise findings and actions for the School Principal. Timetable and Curriculum: * Ensure the Timetable and Curriculum are correctly implemented and maintained in each allocated School. * Ensure the Subject Selection Policy is fully implemented and that subject selection choices demonstrate appropriate ambition, challenge and breadth. Including consultation with parents. Compliance with statutory regulations: * Provide effective scrutiny of all Schools against the relevant statutory regulations for accreditation, registration and inspection. * Support and ensure all relevant statutory regulations are met at each School. * Provide immediate and effective intervention for Schools who are not meeting one or more of the relevant statutory regulations. * Report to the National Executive Committee and Regional Board on compliance with relevant statutory regulations, timely and as required. * Always ensure ‘inspection-readiness’ of all schools in relation to inspection from any regulatory authority. * Through effective governance routines, to provide support and scrutiny of school self-evaluation and school improvement planning, ensuring accountability for accurate and effective monitoring, evaluation and improvement. * Ensure the school’s policy for Child Protection is given the highest priority and fully implemented within each School, including training for staff, volunteers, students and parents; systems for reporting and management of concerns; record keeping; recruitment; governance and regional reporting. Student Outcomes: * Ensure all Principals maintain an accurate analysis of student growth and achievement, including internal and external examinations, and that there is a robust plan for raising achievement and growth for all students, subjects and teachers – Primary and Secondary. * Ensure progress of students taught remotely has equal importance at each school, as those students taught face to face. * Implement a consistent process for reporting student progress and outcomes to parents. * Strategically ensure feedback systems provide students with the information they require to improve their performance, from formative and summative assessments. * Uphold the importance and value of academic achievement and progress, and development of self-directed skills for all students. * Lead a program to improve student outcomes and achievement across the Region. People Practices: * Work strategically with Principals and HR to ensure appropriate and consistent methods at each school for the safe recruitment and selection of staff. Including compliance with the process for employment references, police checks, record-keeping and the setting of interview questions. * Appraise allocated members of the Principal, and Regional Support Office team. * Partner with the HR team, local teams and School leadership to ensure the effective management of conflict, investigations, and disciplinary matters by School Principals; participating in the process as required. Operations: - Work with the Finance and HR, and the Regional Executive Committee to ensure School and Regional expenditure is aligned with the allocated budget. - Hold senior educational leaders and Principals to account for maintaining School resources in line with the budget. Including staffing, curriculum, and strategic expenditure. - Provide accurate budget forecasts. Regional and Global Portfolios: - Lead strategic planning and communication for Regional portfolios. - Engage with Global team meetings and strategic initiatives as directed by the senior leadership team for Education and Learning. - If directed, to lead strategic planning and communication for one or more global portfolios. Regional strategic planning: - Contribute to the strategic planning, including the annual strategic plan and regional Sprint plans. - Work with senior educational leaders, Regional functional leads, Principals to ensure Global and Regional objectives and milestones are met. - Send progress reports to the SLT, Regional Board and wider stakeholder group as required. Teaching Delivery: Where a teaching component is allocated, to teach as per Regional Teacher standards and to model the school’s learning framework as a foundation of all teaching and learning. Engagement: - Contribute to Senior Educational Leadership Team meetings as required. - Lead whole-staff meetings, student assemblies, parent meetings and webinars as required. - Foster positive relationships with the school’s community. - Contribute to and work in conjunction with the Regional Leadership Team, Regional Support Office and EA’s, including joining cross-function meetings. - Contribute to marketing and Public Relations activity as directed. Special Dimensions of the Role: - Freedom to travel around the region, including the need for overnight stays when required. - Ability to attend out-of-hours meetings. Safeguarding and Child Protection: The school is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a ‘safe recruitment process’, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks, and provision of employment references. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding, child protection and safer working practice across the school. This is in line with UK Statutory requirements. All staff are expected to adhere to these policies. Essential: - Experience in a principal or senior educational leadership position. - Experience of the application of Child Protection legislation in schools. - Experience leading educational activity across multiple, geographically distributed sites. - A successful teacher – able to understand the challenges of the classroom. - Experience leading a modern learning environment and modern learning techniques. Including the use of various learning technologies. - Experience working with a wide range of stakeholder groups, including school boards. - Experience facilitating strategic and school improvement planning processes. - Experience leading successful compliance with regulatory and statutory frameworks. - Experience in school budgeting. - Experience leading change. - Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Essential: - Qualified Teacher Status - National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) or recent leadership training - Further Leadership Training and / or certification Who are you? - Delivers outstanding stakeholder focus. - Has integrity. Inspires trust. - Has gravitas and personal authority. - Puts students at the centre and wants each to fulfil their potential. - Supportive of those in need be they student, staff or parent. - Is approachable and able to project a warm, open and caring attitude. - Demonstrable resilience and diligent

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