Principal

Statement of Principle

Recruitment at Nord Anglia Education

We inspire our schools, our students, and our employees to be their best.

Our work is underpinned by a commitment always to act respectfully, and with integrity, openness and courage.

Role Purpose

To lead and inspire the school community to meet the highest standards of organisational success, educationally and commercially ensuring all stakeholders are engaged and committed to this purpose, understand the part they play and strive for the best outcomes for all.

EDUCATION

• Create an environment where the NAE pillars of academic achievement, wellbeing, creativity, and global connectedness thrive.
• Deliver an appropriate curriculum using different learning tools that meet the needs of the students.
• Work with the senior leadership team to quality assure both the delivery of learning and the assessment of student attainment and progress.
• Embed a curriculum and after-school opportunities that ensures student well-being and personal development are central to the educational offer in the school.
• Develop a culture with students and colleagues to achieve high standards of behaviour, a positive attitude to learning and collaborative discussions to promote better academic outcomes for everyone.
• Establish an annual school review process that involves all colleagues, parents and students, utilising parent, student and employee survey outcomes to help define areas for continuous improvement.
• Support the deployment of the latest advances in educational research and technology to drive innovation and creativity.
• Inspire colleagues to undertake courses in NAU to enhance knowledge and skills acquisition and share best practices

PEOPLE

Develop a people plan that ensures delivery of the school development plan and improves employee engagement outcomes for all colleagues.

Recruitment

• Recruit skilled and motivated colleagues and teams, reflective of the diversity within the community, who inspire students to achieve outstanding academic outcomes.
• Provide a comprehensive 12-month induction programme for new colleagues which uses a variety of different tools including peer mentoring, webinars, leadership courses and self-study courses on NAU, and which ensures familiarity and compliance with all NAE policies.

Culture and Influence

• Be the public face of the school deploying appropriate leadership and influencing skills to grow the school's reputation in the community through external outreach Build a skilled, supportive, and collaborative school culture with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and values that are shared with colleagues and the community.
• Engage appropriately with all stakeholders to establish and nurture the school as the centre of the community and act as 'front of house' when welcoming potential new parents.

Talent Development and Training

• Grow senior colleagues' skills through collaborative working on commercial propositions such as budget setting.
• Train all colleagues on the Family Experience Journey to ensure they understand the importance of admissions and marketing in the school and that each person acts as an ambassador in the community.
• Ensure all colleagues have training in, and are responsible for, excellent communications with parents including the use of NAE and local country social media policies.
• Grow the length of tenure of colleagues either in school or within NAE.
• Establish a clear succession plan underpinned by high quality capability and talent within the school and across the NAE family.

Safe stewardship in the local context

• Ensure country and state laws that affect students, and the school community are known and adhered to.

Performance Management

• As part of the management of the school's balanced scorecard, implement a performance review programme for all colleagues linked to robust, ongoing constructive feedback and personal development opportunities.

COMMERCIAL

• Drive the NAE School annual budget to achieve FTE, EBITDA and flowthrough metrics.
• Ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of managing resources, achieving best value and with adherence to NAE guidelines and policies.
• Manage the school's balanced scorecard by:

1. Meeting all operational reporting deadlines with well-prepared, high quality content e.g. curriculum and staffing model, draft budget, CAPEX requests, and
2. Developing and supporting robust monitoring programmes, involving the school's SLT colleagues, that ensures key performance metrics and admissions and marketing initiatives meet targets and are on track.

• Through an effective integration plan (where appropriate) share and promote the NAE values and benefits to students, colleagues and parents.
• Empower and support the school's MAC team to develop an effective, personalised marketing plan that grows enrolment, promotes high re-enrolment and increases market share.
• Ensure all aspects of health and safety requirements are met e.g. criminal background checks or country specific, reference checking, and audit tasks actioned.
• Work collaboratively with the regional office and the central support teams to resolve issues swiftly, mitigate risk and realise opportunities for the school.

QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING

• University educated with an Honours Degree,
• Hold a recognized teaching qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Further degree of educational qualification (desirable)
• Hold or working toward the National Professional Qualification for Headship(NPQH) or equivalent in local country-unless a Head before 2002 (desirable)

In-depth knowledge and understanding of:

• English National Curriculum plus the International Baccalaureate Diploma and associated assessment methods (in some locations, A-levels, the French Baccalaureate and the Swiss Maturité)
• Provision of high standard English as a second language
• Awareness of current educational issues and up to date curriculum developments, internationally
• Application of effective teaching and learning strategies that achieve high levels of teaching and pupil achievement
• Commercial operations of independent schools
• Awareness of how international schools vary from state schools
• Leadership of a significantly-sized school, having responsibility for education, school operations and commercial (budget setting & control) aspects of the school
• Managing growth of a school
• School self-evaluation
• Developing and implementing a school quality improvement programme, including demonstration of raising pupil’s level of achievement.
• Experience of premises development
• Awareness of effective use of ICT
• Understanding of Boarding schools with some experience desirable
• Managing change within an organization
• Developing and implementing marketing programme, including personal involvement in school promotion
• Demonstrate research into an educational theme or topic
• Proven experience of leading, taking part in and building successful teams
• Effective experience of performance management
• Staff development
• Successful leadership (Head or deputy) within a secondary school
• An understanding of how to access and review the cost-effectiveness of major spending decision in terms of educational standards and the quality of Education
• Effective experience of performance management
• Staff development
• Successful leadership (Head or deputy) within a secondary school
• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational level
• Ability to operate as part of a wider group of schools and represent the vision of the overall group
• Ability to evaluate performance of school across a broad spectrum of areas and to put in place activities to recover performance back to targeted levels
• Ability to inspire and enthuse pupils, staff and parents
• Ability to effectively handle parental concerns, balancing the views of the customer with the educational and operational principles of the school
• Secure the loyalty and confidence of all staff, students and parents
• Delegation of responsibility to staff
• Express and instill clear educational values
• Take full involvement in the whole life of the school, to include events and after school activities
• An understanding of how to set appropriate targets for school performance, and how to prepare, monitor and evaluate an action plan in relation to those targets
• Ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of different audiences
• Have classroom credibility

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about delivering quality education
• Able to command the respect of pupils, staff and parents
• Respects the contribution of all individuals
• Organized
• Highest integrity
• Driven by wanting to improve quality and grow the school
• Reliable with an attention to detail and a commitment to quality
• Communicator – the ability to communicate inspirationally & effectively to both internal and external audiences, to incorporate successful negotiation and consultation
• Energetic
• Innovative
• Open and Honest
• Have the enthusiasm, initiative and determination to work as a role model for the school
• Determined

SAFEGUARDING

At Nord Anglia Education we are committed to providing a world class, safe, happy environment in which children and young people are able to thrive and learn. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students irrespective of race, ability, religion, gender or culture.

All post holders in regulated activity (having regular unsupervised contact with children) are subject to appropriate national and international vetting procedures including satisfactory criminal record checks from both your country of residence/birth and any country of residence within the last 10 years. The school will support candidates to obtain this.