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GEMS Job Description |
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Job Details |
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Job holder name: |
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Job title: |
Middle School Assistant Principal |
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Direct reporting line: |
Middle School Principal and Superintendent/CEO |
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Dotted reporting line: |
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Work unit: |
GEMS Dubai American Academy |
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City & Country: |
Dubai, UAE |
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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 wellbeing and academic growth of all children. |
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Supervises: |
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Assigned faculty and support services personnel |
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Interfaces with |
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Head of School, all Principals, other administrators, faculty, students, parents, and members of the GEMS Corporate Office. |
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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 the DAA’s School Improvement Plan.
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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 establish willingness to be a “mentor” to all faculty as well as encouraging their professional growth and career advancement.
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To demonstrate role-model traits that enables others to recognize the Assistant Principal as a leader.
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To seek management harmony and 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 (i.e. verbal, non-verbal 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 so that instructional leadership becomes a shared responsibility.
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To develop meaningful curriculum for the social and emotional wellbeing of students as leader of the HS Advisory program, including the supervision of Grade Level Advisors and student government advisors.
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To supervise and work with the attendance secretary to ensure that a reliable system of monitoring student attendance is maintained.
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To oversee and enforce the MS Disciplinary Guidelines as laid out in the HS Handbook, including the supervision and record keeping of detention.
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To be “visible” during the school day, particularly during class changes, lunch, dismissal, etc.
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To schedule and oversee the supervision duty schedule for teachers.
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To schedule and facilitate semester exams, including the proctoring schedule and distribution of exams to students.
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To participate in the development of curriculum documentation that specifies content and skills, instructional methods and assessment practices.
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To review assessment results that determines 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 aiding with the development of a master class and/or school schedule, accurate record keeping, office accounting, etc.
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To be a willing and active participant in committee work as well as a contributing member of the Administrative Team.
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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 High School Principal or the Superintendent/CEO.
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) – Measurable |
Job performance will be evaluated by the Superintendent/CEO in accordance with school policy and implementing regulations
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Person Specifications |
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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.
Job Details
Preferred Candidate
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.