Summary

A headteacher must be prepared to face a wide range of challenges and responsibilities daily. They should be able to communicate in public and spend time on their own completing administrative assignments.

Their main duties and responsibilities include:

• Creating an academic program for students that meets national standards
• Develop agendas, meetings and arrange for speakers and meeting minutes with parents.
• Working closely and communicating with students’ parents
• Helping assess students’ needs and development
• Selecting, training, supporting, and assessing staff
• Providing guidance to staff to help resolve issues with students
• Using data to track student performance and produce reports
• Working with external advisors and school governors
• Controlling school finances
• Ensuring the safety of all children in the institution/program
• Manage staff attendance, submit timesheets and enter time into the timesheet system.
• Handle authorized emergency and safety procedures
• Design school’s aims and objectives and implement policies
• Ensure policies and practices consider national, local, and school inspection research findings
• Supervise and evaluate school policy effects and take action where necessary
• Develop creative and responsive approaches to teaching and learning
• Engage self-learning by ensuring culture and ethos of support and challenge
• Exhibit and express high expectations and establish community targets
• Assess, organize and execute flexible curriculum and effective assessment framework
• Strategize development of emerging technologies to extend the learning experience
• Plan, support and assess individuals and teams’ work to ensure task delegation
• Ensure a reasonable teacher-staff schoolwork balance
• Sustain staff performance management effective systems and incorporate teachers’ appraisals and targets for School’s achievement

Minimum Requirements

• Must have served as a Deputy Headteacher
• Must have teaching experience of 3 years with 2 years in CBC System
• Must have a TSC number
• Must be in possession of a relevant Degree in Education (Primary) Diploma certificate or a P1 Certificate
• A Certificate or Diploma in Montessori will be an added advantage
• Must have a Certificate of good conduct
• Ability to lead, organize and manage a school