Head of School at Pershing Hills Elementary School

Pershing Hills Elementary School - We have been at the forefront of educating young minds since 2020. We are constantly evolving, but our aim remains unchanged: to educate, to inspire and to prepare pupils from a range of backgrounds to find their passion, achieve their ambition and to prepare them for a future filled with opportunity. We understand that education is a journey and we are willing and ready not only to work and walk with parents, but to also provide quality school experience for their child.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of School

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Summary

• The Head of School of Pershing Hills Elementary school has the overall responsibility for the effective management of the School’s programme (pre-school and primary school).
• The Head of School will ensure the quality of children’s experience in the school.

Duties
Strategy and Planning:

• Review the recruitment, induction, and management of educators, carers and administrative staff
• Ensuring that the organisational systems throughout the Primary School are effective and appropriate.
• Conduct interviews of educators.
• Design marketing and promotional activities for the school to achieve termly increase in the number of children at Pershing Hills.
• Review the Transparent app for communication lines between parents and educators.
• Oversee parents’ review and comments on Transparent app
• Maintain lines of communication between parents and educators.
• Oversee parents’ forum with educators and follow-through deliberations to ensure proper implementation.

Administration:

• Define educator requirement in line with Lagos state education standards and constantly review educators’ and assistant educators’ qualification.
• Create a supportive working environment for all educators in the School, fostering their career development.
• Manage relevant disciplinary procedures for both educators and children.

Education and Research:

• Ensure the effective delivery of high-quality teaching and the maintenance of learning standards.
• Promote a culture of learning that is directed to children’s needs, and of teaching that is informed by the development interests and abilities of the children.
• Fostering the development of academic policy and initiatives within the context of the long-term strategies.
• Promote excellence and improvement in all matters of teaching, learning, and administration.
• Ensure the regular review, evaluation and development of programmes offered by the School.

Examination:

• Define performance benchmarks for educators and children based on defined indices
• Review children performances and discuss teaching methods for the children based on their peculiarities.

Technology:

• Advise on the appropriate technology to pass knowledge to the children.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Work on increasing children attendance in school by 20 - 30% every session
• Attain 80% retention of children in the school
• Maintain close contact and relationship with parents and educators
• Achieve a Net Promoter Score of 8
• Achieve a customer satisfaction rate of 80% termly.

Requirements / Qualifications

• B.Sc./ HND or NCE
• 15 and over years of experience as an educator
• Over 10 years post-work experience post obtaining early childhood raining certification
• M.Sc. is an advantage
• Effective relationship management skills
• Effective business planning and managerial skills
• Effective leadership skills
• Effective negation skills
• Effective team-building skills.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated Resume and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.