W-Holistic Business Solutions - Our client, a Private Montessori School on the mainland, seeks to recruit qualified individuals for the position below:
Job Title: Headteacher
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- The headteacher will be responsible for providing dynamic and professional leadership for the school that builds upon a change to secure its continued success and improvement, ensuring high quality education for all its students and improved standards of achievement.
Responsibilities
- Provide inspiring and purposeful leadership for the staff and pupils.
- To work in partnership with the governing body, staff and parents generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
- To continue to implement a Development Plan which will secure continuous school improvement
- To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the governing body as required.
- To ensure that management, finances, organisation and administration of the school supports its vision and aims.
- To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them, and involved in meeting long, medium and short term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school.
- Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning, high standards of achievement and good behaviour.
- Determine, organise, implement and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
- Plan, allocate, support and evaluate work undertaken by groups, teams and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities in a manner consistent with conditions of employment.
- Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating performance management and target setting.
- Set appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocation of funds and effective administration and control.
- Manage, monitor and review the range, quality and use of all available resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve pupils' achievements, ensure efficiency and secure value for money
- Continue to develop an organisation in which all the staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school.
- Ensure that parents/carers and pupils are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress and about the contribution they can make in supporting their child’s learning and achieving the school’s targets for improvement.
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as required and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
- Significant teaching experience
- Proven expertise in leading a Core Subject
- Proven record of raising standards and securing good progress through outstanding classroom practice.
Education and Experience
- Candidates should have at least 5 years experience in a Montessori School as a Head teacher.
- You should have experience of teaching primary and/or early years learners.
- Interested candidates should have a good understanding of curriculum, including the Nigerian and British Curriculum.
- Experience in a leadership position is a must.
- The Ideal candidate should understand how to implement quality assurance for the school while raising standards of all educational services.
Application Closing Date
26th October, 2015.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications and CV's to:
[email protected] with the job title as the subject of the mail.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be shortlisted.