إرفاق
وصف الوظيفة
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ANNEX A
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GEMS Job Description |
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Job Details |
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Job title |
Work unit: |
GEMS Dubai American Academy |
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Middle School Principal |
City & country: |
Dubai, UAE |
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Job holder name: |
Direct reporting line: |
Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent |
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Job Goal |
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To provide visionary leadership and demonstrate exemplary management skills in the recruitment and development of faculty, the implementation of a superior curriculum, the assurance of long-term school financial stability, and the provision of effective communication with all the school’s constituents. To ensure the social well being and academic growth of all children. |
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Supervises: |
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Assistant Principal and assigned faculty and support services personnel |
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Interfaces with |
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Faculty, staff, students, parents, colleagues, members of the leadership team, the general school community, and officials on GEMS corporate staff |
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Key Accountabilities |
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Embrace and encourage the ethos and standards of excellence as defined in the GEMS Core Values.
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Ensure that GEMS policies, procedures, and codes of conduct are followed at all times.
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To model and encourage DAA’s Culture of Kindness and to perpetuate the school’s mission and values.
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To commit time and leadership for the successful implementation of DAA’s School Improvement Plan and to develop division-specific actions for our strategic priorities.
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To ensure that all teachers and support staff have a clear understanding of their performance expectations (e.g., job descriptions and faculty handbook) and to assist faculty towards becoming master teachers.
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To willingly mentor all faculty as well as encouraging their professional growth and career advancement.
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To demonstrate role-model traits that enable others to recognize the principal as an instructional leader.
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To instill a sense of common purpose and common pursuit toward consensus goals with regards to the decision-making process.
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To communicate effectively with students, faculty, staff, parents, colleagues and in the community (e.g., verbal, nonverbal and written communication).
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To seek the involvement of faculty and parents in a wide variety of school activities.
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To develop the leadership capabilities of teachers and to share leadership responsibility when appropriate.
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To ensure that curriculum documentation spells out content and skills, instructional methods and assessment practices.
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To use assessment results to determine whether curriculum and instructional goals and student performance outcomes are being met.
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To create an efficient, productive and caring building atmosphere where all students (and faculty) have opportunity to be recognized for their best efforts.
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To ensure that all of the School’s resources are identified and being used to serve students and faculty members alike; help both to reach their full performance potential.
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To assume the responsibility for sound financial management including accurate program budget planning and fiscal accountability.
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To have a personal commitment to seek constant professional learning and professional growth and to be a life-long learner.
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To accept the importance and necessity in attending after school student activity programs and parent events.
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To willingly take on all responsibility for the “mechanics” of the assignment; activities such as building a master class schedule, accurate record keeping, office accounting, etc.
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To be a willing and active participant in committee work.
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To carefully review all student admission applications in accordance with policies established by DAA policy and implementing regulations.
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To perform other activities as might be required for the general welfare of the school and/or as requested by the Head of School and Deputy Head of School.
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) – Measurable |
Job performance will be evaluated by the Principal in accordance with school policy and implementing regulations
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Person Specifications |
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Skills: |
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Experience: |
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المهارات
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Skills: |
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GEMS Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students and staff. A UK-enhanced DBS or equivalent police check is a pre-requisite for all appointments.
المؤهلات العلمية
Educational Specialist
تفاصيل الوظيفة
المرشح المفضل
GEMS DUBAI AMERICAN ACADEMY
GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA) is GEMS Education's flagship American school. Offering both an enriched American Curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Diploma to students from around the world, DAA prepares its students for success in the world's most prestigious universities and colleges. DAA is the only American curriculum school in Dubai to receive the KHDA rating of Outstanding and has received this rating since 2011. With over 20 years of history and academic excellence, DAA is one of the most sought-after American schools in Dubai. The school's outstanding heritage is coupled with its future design focus which embeds creative design, cutting-edge robotics and digital fluencies at its core. Through teaching, learning and innovation, students develop a mastery of multiple literacies and fluencies to support genuine world-class learning, personal growth and future readiness. DAA offers a diverse range of extra-curricular, athletic, and leadership opportunities to enrich the holistic development of each student. In addition, our original and growing WISE initiative pulls efforts of wellness, inclusion, safeguarding, and social-emotional health into a coordinated effort to support students for holistic well-being, supporting them in their growth and in their learning. Our staff teaches and inspires excellence in academics and life-long learning skills by continually reviewing and building an enriched American curriculum, promoting student achievement, encouraging integrity and nurturing a desire to learn.