The Senior IB World Schools (IBWS) Manager serves an assigned portfolio of private or public schools. The purpose of this role is to provide partnership to schools and provide guidance and support to schools so that they achieve their optimum teaching, learning and assessment objectives.
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The key responsibilities are as follows:
• Ensure efficient management of evaluation of allocated portfolio of schools to ensure consistency and efficiency among schools, reduce risk, provide excellent customer service and inform IBWS strategy.
• Monitor schools queries, development plans and implementation difficulties which relate to programme implementation and provide feedback reports to IBWS leadership and Schools Office.
• Act as the central point of contact for schools, maintain relations with schools and monitor their development and performance.
• Collaborate with schools to continuously support them in seeking to improve programme implementation.
• Accountable for cultivating relationship with most senior 3rd party representatives, e.g. president of board of education, superintendents of schools or education ministers.
• Accountable for relationships at a sub-regional or state/provincial/large district level e.g. UAE, China, Korea etc.
• Build, maintain and expand a network of (new) external relations (educational, governmental, etc.); detect and realize new business opportunities in close cooperation with other IB departments
• Participate and lead IBWS initiatives and projects as needed
Requirements:
• Master’s degree, preferably in Education related discipline.
• More than 3 years’ experience in school leadership.
• Previous IB programme experience as educator, coordinator, administrator desirable
• Familiarity with education systems and practices in public, private and international school systems.
• Experience in education management, school improvement and educational change.
• Experience in IB Educator Network roles such as IB school visit team member/leader, consultant and workshop leader and/or educational administrator desirable.
• Experience in educational management and innovational change
• Proficiency to gather, analyze, present data and develop insights to deepen understanding of school needs.
• Presentation and communication skills are highly developed and can be used to represent the IB externally with senior external stakeholders
• Understands financial, marketing and communication implementations beyond the core duties of their role (i.e. cross-departmental awareness)
• Maturity of conversation to interact with co-workers at senior level
• Able to perform strategic thinking
• Can bridge strategic thinking with global business context
• Ability to participate in development and implementation of new programme evaluation and the self-study processes as conditions warrant
• Deep understanding of national and international education trends and issues
