Achievements

Organisational Management

• Liaison between external stakeholder groups

• Report to governing organisational bodies

• Create a community of practice

• Promoting international-mindedness

• Participate and lead professional development with various stakeholder groups (students, parents, staff, and wider community) in: workshops, conferences, school visits, induction, organisational networks

• Create, oversee and follow-up action items aligned with standards and practices and the school strategic action plan

• Collaborate with leadership in staff recruitment process

• Oversee all accounting responsibilities for growing small-businesses

• Leads schools successfully through Middle Years Programme application, candidacy, authorisation and Primary Years Programme application, candidacy, self-study evaluation and beyond

• Represent the business in union and legal matters

• Write legal documents

• Collaborate with union representatives

• Undertake debt collection and court representation for clients

• Manage daily operations of an organisation, business and Non governmental organisations (NGO)

• Apply local, national and international laws and regulations

• Pay weekly and monthly wages to staff

• Appraising staff roles and responsibilities to distribute and empower colleagues and community

• Oversee the management of minor and major projects for the organisation

• Devise duty rosters and timetables for staff and various subjects for primary and middle schools

• Recording, collating and archiving materials, including the PYP Exhibition and MYP Personal Project

• Generate sustainable funding from international organisations

• Create and write international grant applications

• Represent and conduct the self in promoting quality education (UN SDG 4)

• Construct new and review current policies relating to all functions of a school (eg: inclusion, assessment, admission, language, ICT, student council, personal project, and others)

• Leads orientation of new teachers into the school and programmes

• Encourages an inquiry-based environment within the community

• Keep extremely accurate anecdotal notes

• Construct meeting minutes with clear agendas and targeted outcomes for whole school and one-to-one collaborations

• Support teachers in their lifelong learning. Mentor substitute teachers, student volunteers, student teachers, and team or external volunteer members enrolled in university programs

• Make recommendations for the purchase of suitable resources

• Identify resources within the local community to aid the implementation of school curricula

• Set up systems and promotes effective communication and collaboration among all staff members

• Conducts parent information sessions

• Publishes open, sharable academic articles

• Establishes/maintains a network with other international schools and organisations

• Promotes the organisation in both online and offline means

Learning and development

• Undertake academic, critical insider-research in pedagogy and andragogy

• Responsible for collaborative planning and whole-school implementation

• Facilitating inquiry-based pedagogy

• Support in defining school culture

• Implementing standards/outcomes-based pedagogy

• Creating whole-school curricula for primary and middle schools

• Construct policy documentation review, liaison and publication

• Ensures that the most up-to-date academic and educational publications are available

• Ensure staff members are aware of and provided appropriate professional development opportunities and in-house training

• Leads development and review of school curriculum

• Make recommendations regarding professional development 

• Support teachers in their planning process and ensure consistency within the programmes

• Create change in organisational practices for various programmes and learning support/special needs sectors

• Promotes collaboration and team work in planning, teaching, assessing

• Mentoring and coaching teachers throughout all phases

• Skilled in UK KS1 and KS2, Norwegian, Swedish, Australian, Italian and Swiss cantonal and national curricula

• Leading and supporting the International Baccalaureate (IB) authorisation and evaluation processes for both Primary Years and Middle Years (PYP and MYP) programmes

• Responsible for ensuring a curriculum scope and sequence is in place inclusive of Approaches to Learning (ATL)

• Website domain platform host for 30+ online sites built by children for assessment

• Support teachers and students in preparing for various assessments of all programmes: PYP Exhibition, MYP Personal Project

• Provide appropriate guidance and support are given to staff to implement the programme and assessment strategies

• Oversee Special Projects: Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure

• Undertake or contribute to special projects, both internally and/or in cooperation with outside agencies

Educational specifics