Assistant Principal (Secondary)
Ark King Solomon Academy, London, NW1 6RXThis job expired on 27 April 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2020
Closing date
27 April 2020 at 11am
Date listed
6 April 2020
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale
Assistant Principal (Secondary) job summary
Assistant Principal (Secondary)
Over the last six years, King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of the highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are redefining what is possible and we are seeking an exceptional leader, ready to join the leadership team in our high-performing school and to contribute to the achieving of our mission. This is a unique opportunity to be part of showing what education can achieve.
KSA aims to transform the lives of its pupils. Our mission is to provide a rigorous education that prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond, irrespective of their starting point. Our teachers and leaders do whatever it takes to make this a reality.
As King Solomon Academy is a small school, senior leaders provide strategic and operational leadership across many areas beyond their immediate remit, and as such the successful candidate will have a real opportunity to have a significant impact on the future of the school. As a member of the senior leadership team, the leader in this role will require a leader who is 100% aligned to King Solomon Academy’s values, mission and approach. This role will provide the opportunity to be mentored and nurtured as a leader in one of the highest performing and most forward-thinking schools in the country.
We are excited to offer the role of Assistant Principal. This role will take responsibility for key aspects of the school, including most likely, leadership of one of the phases/small schools within King Solomon Academy. This role is one of a senior leader and as such, the successful participant should be ready to take on responsibility and be developed in all aspects of school leadership.
KSA is a pioneering school looking to hire exceptional people. This role provides the opportunity to excel in a supportive environment and contribute to the ongoing development of our school community.
As we are advertising during a school closure, we will be relying on a remote recruitment process. This will involve video calls to hold an initial conversation about the role for candidates with strong applications. For successful candidates at this first round, there will then be a more thorough online process, involving activities which will assess candidates’ capacity to be successful in the role.
We know that a normal part of applying for a role in a school is to spend time in the school, meeting other members of the team and pupils, so we will be creating as many opportunities to get a genuine understanding for our community through the process. To start with we would encourage candidates to read the website thoroughly to learn as much as they can about the school (www.kingsolomonacademy.org).
To apply, follow the link at http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies by 11am on Monday 27th April 2020. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Shaheen Riaz, at s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org and 0207 563 6901.
Yours sincerely,
Max Haimendorf
Principal
Job Description: Assistant Principal
Reports to: Relevant member of the Senior Leadership Team
Start date: September 2020
Salary: Leadership Scale
The role
The Assistant Principal will lead on aspects of the overall leadership of the school, ensuring that our provision in a given stage of the school is truly preparing our pupils to be successful at university and beyond. Working closely with the rest of the Senior Leadership Team, this role will take on significant responsibility for the leadership of all aspects of the school, and the successful candidate will show they have the flexibility and ambition to develop as a leader in all aspects of school leadership.
Key responsibilities
The precise areas of responsibility for this post will be agreed based around your skills and the needs of the school, but it is anticipated that you will be able to:
• Demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities and articulate clear values & moral purpose
• Promote high expectations in all areas of the academy for pupils and staff alike
• Model excellence in the classroom, leading the development of colleagues at all levels
• Confidently monitor and evaluate data and identify priorities for continuous improvement
• Train, coach and support identified teachers and leaders
• Communicate effectively & build strong relationships with the whole academy community
• Evidence successful leadership experience as a middle or senior leader
• Deputise for leaders including the Academy Principal or Vice Principal when required
• Along with other senior staff, take responsibility for:
o Safeguarding
o Pupil culture and behaviour
o Curriculum
o Teacher development
o Staff CPD
o Recruitment
Key tasks
• To lead or contribute to leading the strategic direction of teaching and learning across the whole academy, or a designated phase, through leading CPD, facilitating coaching and mentoring other identified teachers who need additional support
• To lead or contribute to leading the strategic direction of pupil culture and behaviour as well as their safety and personal development through observation and feedback, fostering excellent relationships with parents and external agencies and ensuring compliance with academy systems
• To monitor and evaluate our training programmes and improve all areas of responsibility over time
• To teach and model outstanding practice in terms of classroom teaching, culture building, preparation, marking and assessment.
• To line manage, mentor and/or coach allocated middle leaders and/or teachers to ensure they are being led and managed in the best possible way.
• Together with the other senior leaders, to provide overall leadership of the curriculum offer, to ensure that it provides our pupils with a transformational and rigorous curriculum which prepares our pupils for success in university and beyond.
• Together with the other senior leaders, ensure all consequences, positive and negative (including all detentions, homework catch ups, in class isolation, internal exclusion and exclusion), are followed and executed in line with school policy, and where there are breaches of policy to take action to prevent reoccurrence, including holding staff to account.
• To maintain positive relationships with all pupils
• To be a professional role model for all students and staff in demeanour, appearance and attitude
• To monitor standards in their area of responsibility, evaluate and contribute to wider self evaluation of the school
• To represent KSA effectively to external stakeholders.
Other specific responsibilities
• Lead line management meetings and circulate minutes promptly
• Attend and contribute to SLT meetings
• Supervise Saturday and holiday learning as required
• Supervise key parts of the school day as required (e.g. arrival or departure from school)
• Plan the provision and support for new staff
• To observe teaching, monitoring teachers’ knowledge of data, setting of homework, marking and challenge to students’ performance
Other
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Principal
Role review
This job description sets out the main duties of the post at the time of drafting. It cannot be read as an exhaustive list. These responsibilities will be discussed annually as part of the postholder’s annual performance review and are subject to change. However, it may be altered at any time subject to need in consultation with the postholder subject to the Principal’s approval.
Ark is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Person Specification: Assistant Principal
Necessary qualification criteria
• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach in the UK
• Right to work in the UK
Essential experience
• Experience of leading, coaching and managing staff
• Experience of leading a high achieving team within a complex school environment
• Experience of raising attainment in a challenging classroom environment
• Evidence of continually improving the behaviour and culture of groups of pupils
Skills and attributes
We are looking for these skills and attributes or at the very least, a candidate’s clear, demonstrable capacity to develop them:
Alignment with KSA vision
• Relentless drive to do whatever it takes to ensure all students succeed.
• The belief that with the right environment all pupils are able to excel at university and beyond.
• The courage and conviction to make a difference.
Communication skills
• The ability to listen and communicate effectively.
• Empathy and the ability to understand the needs, aspirations and motivation of diverse individuals and groups.
• The ability to influence and motivate others.
Working with others
• Develop and communicate a shared vision.
• Model desired behaviour and values.
• Empower, support and coach others.
• Hold others to account for high standards of performance.
• Understand and resolve conflict.
Problem solving
• Identify, analyse and resolve problems and issues.
• Develop plans with concrete outcomes and effective solutions.
• Evaluate results and identify necessary actions.
• Make fact-based decisions.
Resilience
• Sustain energy, optimism and motivation in the face of pressure and setbacks.
• Stay calm in difficult situations and maintain clarity of vision.
• Be adaptable in the face of adversity.
Results and learning orientation
• Awareness of own strengths and limits.
• Commitment to ongoing improvement and learning.
• A passion for teaching subject.
• Focus on achieving challenging goals and results.
• Resourcefulness and flexibility in delivering outcomes.
Leadership
• Effective team worker and leader.
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement.
• Acts as a role model to staff and students.
• Vision aligned with KSA’s high aspirations, high expectations of self and others.
Leading culture
• Able to model the importance of effectiveness of joy in learning environments and of nurturing relationships with pupils
• High expectations for accountability and consistency.
Leading the learning
• Excellent classroom practitioner and coach.
• Effective and systematic behaviour management with clear boundaries, sanctions, rewards and praise.
Other
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
About Ark King Solomon Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ark King Solomon Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org
King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of the highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are rare in that it is a genuine all-through school. Our pupils join at 2,3 and 4 years old and stay with us until they are 18.
By joining our school, you play a part in showing what is possible when children’s education is seen as a long-term commitment. We are growing a team of exceptionally committed staff who value each and every year of a child’s education equally. If you too are motivated to redress educational disadvantage in the UK, King Solomon Academy is beginning to show what is possible and you could be part of the team defining the future of education in our country.
We aim to transform the lives of our pupils. Our mission is to provide a rigorous education that prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond, irrespective of their starting point. Our teachers and leaders do whatever it takes to make this a reality.
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