Duties & Responsibilities
1. Strategic Planning and Implementation:
- Leverage upon research and worldwide scans to develop and execute an organisational excellence strategy aligned with the school's vision and goals
- Identify areas for improvement and implement initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
2. Strategic Performance Assessment:
- Develop methodologies to assess overall organisational excellence, for aspects of school’s focus
- Design a framework for gathering and analysing data from various school functions
- Create metrics that reflect progress in key areas, aligned with school priorities
- Synthesise data to provide insights into the school's performance in organisational excellence
- Present strategic reports with data-driven recommendations to senior leadership, with insights that inform strategic decision-making and resource allocation
3. Process Enhancement:
- Conduct internal and external benchmarking to identify best practices for reference
- Identify and evaluate key processes impacting organisational excellence
- Recommend innovative approaches to enhance overall effectiveness
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to address school-wide process challenges
- Develop metrics to measure impact of process improvements that will feedback to performance assessment of organisational excellence
4. Foster a Culture of Innovation:
- Develop strategies to embed innovation in the school's culture and practices
- Identify opportunities for innovative approaches to enhance organisational excellence
5. Change Leadership:
- Advise school leadership on the school's readiness for organisational changes, the potential barriers, and approaches to overcome them
- Support school leadership in developing change communication strategies
- Gather ongoing feedback during change implementation, informing continuous improvements
6. Resource Optimisation:
- Analyse and recommend strategies for optimisation of human, financial and physical resources required to support organizational excellence initiatives
- Collaborate with the Finance department to analyse the financial impact of excellence initiatives
Requirements
1. Education and Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Organisational Development, Education Management, or a related field
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in leading organisational excellence, change management, or related roles, preferably with experience in the education sector
- Professional certifications in relevant areas such as Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, data analysis would be advantageous
2. Knowledge and Personal Attributes:
- A creative thinker and problem solver
- Exceptional strategic thinking and planning capabilities
- Proven ability to lead and influence across all organizational levels
- Expertise in driving change and fostering innovation
- Strong work ethic and personal integrity
- Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion
- Excellent communication (spoken and written) and interpersonal skills necessary to build rapport and collaborate effectively with various stakeholders
- Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal skills
- Resilient and able to navigate a complex operating structure
- Commitment to research and continuous learning
