About This Role
This academic leadership role involves overseeing academic matters, curriculum quality, staff management, and student engagement within a school setting. The Assistant Head of School will provide guidance to academic staff, manage student development, and contribute to the institution's strategic partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Provide outstanding academic leadership
- Plan, prepare and deliver lessons and set assessment and learning activities
- Conduct administration duties
- Review and ensure the quality of all examination papers
- Conduct objective assessments on examination appeal cases
- Periodically review and develop programmes
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate teaching materials
- Improve the management of administrative resources
- Contribute to the development of partnerships with national and international academic and non-academic organisations, government and commercial sector
- Ensure academic documentations are up-to-date and accurate
- Coordinate and prepare information for inspection and quality assurance assessments
- Deliver responsive quality assurance processes and outcomes
- Represent and work closely in Academic Committees
- Manage academic staff, including appraising their performance
- Mentor and advise new academic colleagues
- Assign and manage academic workloads
- Manage and engage students during classroom management
- Engage in student development
- Advise students with respect to academic performance and pursuit of advanced studies
- Conduct and assign staff to assist in new student orientation
- Refer students with academic or personal difficulties to the appropriate channels of support
- Budget and manage costs for academic areas
Requirements
- 8 or more years in a related industry, with significant professional experience in the education field and leadership capacity
- Experience or knowledge of module and programme leadership, development and administration within a higher education environment
- Taught modules in areas such as Business, Graphic Design, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Media Communication, or English
- Ability to engage with and enable organisational change
- Evidence of engagement in professional practice and the ability to design, deliver and assess a range of modules in and related to specialist areas of professional practice
- Enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary context
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
- Experience in working with digital technology, including an interest in emerging technology and techniques and maintaining an active interest in related developments within the sector
