Profile of School
The UCSI Schools Group has 3 campuses in Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur Campus, Subang Jaya Campus and Springhill Campus. Two of its campuses focuses on British school curriculum while the other one focuses on the IB.
While maintaining a strong focus on core curriculum which includes British school curriculum with Cambridge IGCSE and International Primary Curriculum, we aim to complement the formal curriculum with a series of CCAs which students’ experiences form a cornerstone of their holistic education for the 21st century. The rapid advancement of technological innovations, global competition, and a push towards a knowledge-based economy require that our students learn to have a repertoire of soft and hard skills to enable them to succeed in a future economy that is still in the making. Through our unique CCA experiences, our students can exhibit soft skills like creativity, leadership abilities, teamwork, flexibility, communication skills, resilience and an enterprising spirit that will enable them to stay relevant for the future.
UIS focuses on eight critical characteristics in our learning content and experiences. The rapid advancement of technological innovation, global competition, and a push towards a knowledge-based economy require that our students have a repertoire of soft and hard skills. We therefore place a strong emphasis on Character Education, Global Citizen Skills, Problem-based Collaborative Learning, and co-curricular activities amongst others, forming a truly holistic education for the 21st century.
Our emphasis in education isn’t only labelled in academic and creative excellence, but to equipped students with 21st century skills such as character, communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, while inculcating virtues such as integrity, honesty, and empathy in our students. We believe that students that have a developed moral compass and practical wisdom in a challenging and fractured world will make a positive impact for life.
The Head of Secondary role is regarded as an integral position in the School Leadership Team. This role combines leadership responsibilities, with some teaching.
The Head of Secondary has responsibility for communicating information to all members of the school community, administering all internal and external assessment and acting as the primary point of contact between the school and external programme bodies.
Job Purpose
- To be responsible for the development and enhancement of administration and educational leadership of the respective section of school
- To be accountable for the continuous improvement of the respective section of school in maximising student achievement
- To provide leadership and management necessary to ensure the success of the school in fulfilling its mission and working towards its vision
- To model the values of the school at all times and in all aspects of his or her job
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children
Responsibilities and Tasks
1. Administration
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of the respective section of school
- Responsible for the deployment of teachers and the assignment of their responsibilities, in consultation with the Executive Principal (UIS SJ Campus)
- Responsible for disciplinary matters through the Executive Principal, involving students, which originate in or out of school. On a day to day basis, to assume direct responsibility.
- Maintain and develop link between school and parents
- Responsible for daily matters such as students’ attendance, staff attendance, registers and covers
- To lead regular meetings with respective section of school
- Annual 'Teaching and Learning' audit, including horizontal and vertical alignment of curricula (IEYC/IPC/Cambridge Primary/Cambridge Lower Secondary/IGCSE)
- Schoolwide professional development leadership
- Schoolwide leadership of external authorisation, accreditation and qualitative processes (for example, IPC accreditation, AIMS/CIS/NEASC Accreditation)
- Schoolwide strategic communications with parents (for example, platforms such as Toddle, newsletters, webinars, parental 'education' relating to curriculum)
2. Leadership and Management
- Develop, motivate and lead all staff to achieve the highest professional standards
- Build collaborative learning culture within the school and actively engage with other schools and agencies to build effective learning communities
- Manage change effectively
- Develop links with the community
- Manage school finances effectively in conjunction with the Executive Principal (UIS SJ Campus)
- Contribute to the development of whole school strategic planning
- Lead the development of school goals and targets that support school goals
- Communicate goals and targets to all relevant staff and students
- Ensure jobs descriptions and performance management/appraisal for all staff are based on clear roles and responsibilities, reviewed at least annually and consistent with current conditions of employment
- Ensure that all policies are kept up to date, working closely with teaching staff and the Executive Principal.
- Maintain sound procedure for security, supervision and maintenance of the school environment ensuring that all health and safety regulations are met
- Manage one’s own personal professional development while ensuring the well-being of and a good work/life balance for all teachers
- Ensure all responsibilities delegated by the Principal / Executive Principal are carried out
- Develop, and where appropriate manage, high quality extended services
- Undertake other such duties as may be reasonably expected
3. Academic
- Devise curriculum policy documents, an overall curriculum plan and schemes of work for the implementation of curriculum to meet the individual and collective learning needs of students in association with the Principal / Executive Principal.
- Lead in the design and implementation of curriculum, which inspires and engages all students
- Ensure a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on student assessment and achievement, using appropriate data and benchmark to set, monitor, track and evaluate individual student progress
- Use the assessment results to inform overall curriculum planning, termly and weekly plans as well as day-to-day teaching so that classroom practice in the school meets the known needs of the students
- Maintain accurate and proper student records and use data to help inform on student progress
- To monitor staff performance and curriculum delivery, undertaking disciplinary measures where appropriate; in association with the Executive Principal/School Leadership
- Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies; aim for outstanding standards of learning and teaching at all times
- Meet with each school staff member within the respective section to monitor their performance and development plan
- Prepare and monitor with the Principal, a Personal Performance and Development Plan
- Plan for staff Professional Development
- Challenge and remedy under-performance for students and teachers
- Ensure exemplary standards of behaviour and attendance
4. Communication
- Build effective relationship with all stakeholders through excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and taking and providing appropriate advice
- Ensure that all lines of communication within the school are respected and they are well known by all parents and staff
- Coordinate with all sections of school for smooth transition and continuity of learning
- Represent the school at educational conferences and making certain that other with curriculum development responsibilities also have this opportunity
- Produce written reports, as required, to the Executive Principal, to the Board and any individual or organisation nominated by the School Leadership Team concerning activities and curriculum and student learning
5. Marketing
- Contribute to the school’s overall marketing plan and participate in school marketing events.
- Take every opportunity to promote the school’s values and purpose
- Ensure that others associated with the school also promote the school’s values and purpose
6. Health, Safety and Student Welfare
- Participate in devising and implementing a health and safety policy in accordance with the national laws and the school’s policies and good practice
- Participate in establishing and maintaining an environment in which all users – student, staff and others – are safe
- Promote, through professional development and other activities, staff awareness of health and safety issues
- Promote, through the curriculum, teaching and other means, student awareness of issues affecting their own health and safety and those of others
- Participate in establishing and maintaining structures, procedures and a general environment in which students are supported academically, socially, emotionally and physically and in which they can develop in all these areas
Any other duties delegated by the Executive Principal that are required for this position.
Requirements
- Bachelor in Education or equivalent
- Teaching qualification (PGCE or equivalent and/or higher degree (MA/MS/MBA)
- 5 years of leadership of teaching experience
