Dean of Students, Tatu Girls at Nova Pioneer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Specific key responsibilities for the role include:

Leading School Culture

• Working with the Principal to articulate a compelling short- and long-term vision for the development of the school’s culture and program
• Setting and modelling a consistent tone of highest expectations, joy, and growth mindset
• Leading key school rituals as needed to model and ingrain culture through setting up culture committees and mentorship programs
• Quickly identifying and responding to classroom/school culture or behavior issues
• Engaging with the many stakeholders who make up Nova Pioneer community- parents, students and teachers by:
• Coordinating and planning parent events, fora and seminars
• Writing parent communication and serving as first point of contact on parent queries and concerns
• Coordinating 1:1 parent meetings
• Managing student behavior by  voicing and popularizing school rules and regulations with the intention to build an harmonious school community 
• Coaching teachers on managing student behavior
• Coordinating student-related programs within and outside Nova Pioneer networks.

Student Support and Empowering Student Voice 

• Creating a vision and plan for student leadership development on the campus and systems and structures to support the vision.  
• Creating and managing the systems and structures to support students' leadership development.
• Listening to student concerns and raising those challenges to the administration
• Reviewing information from student suggestion box 
• Collecting monthly anonymous feedback from students 
• Supporting in the running of Town Halls 
• Supporting the running of student leadership programmes 
• Running skill development programmes 
• Meeting with student leaders 
• Identifying challenges in student leadership at the school and implementing solutions  to those challenges in a timely and effective manner.
• Identifying and bringing in internal/external speakers to support student leadership 
• Supporting the running of mentorship and advisory sessions on campus 
• Managing and supporting the student council
• Starting the student council on campus, including the student culture committee 
• Managing the implementation of all clubs, societies and extramural activities both during and after school
• Serving as liaison between institution administrators and the student body.
• Staying up to date on important student affairs.
• Preparing weekly school newsletters and sharing stories about student activities with relevant stakeholders e.g. parents.

Health and Safety

• Leading and supporting the health and safety committee, serving as the chair to foster a safe and healthy school environment.
• Organizing monthly fire drills, prioritizing students' overall safety, and maintaining accurate records of each drill.

Behaviour Management

• Developing and managing the behavior management system throughout the school
  • Reviewing all student infraction and behavior data, including both yellow and green cards.
  • Meeting with teachers to identify areas of improvement, challenges, and coaching needs.
  • Identifying trends, observes individual and group behavior.
  • Meeting with students.
• Leading the Behaviour Committee 
  • Convening meetings 
  • Ensuring all data is present for meetings 
  • Chair behavior committee meetings
• Coaches behavior issues with teachers 
  • Reviewing issues that teachers are having with behavior and coaches teachers through  observations, meetings, etc. 
  • Developing and coaching teachers diversified strategies of behavior management basing on Positive Behavioural Interventions and Support (PBIS)
• Leads academic behavior investigations 
  • Ensuring strong documentation  
• Referral to the counselor 
  • Knowledge of background of behavior and what behavior has to be referred to the counselor.
  • Follow up with cases referred to the counselor for tracking of support and changes.

Functional Support

• Work with the parent fee support team to manage the process of gating.

ABOUT YOU

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and you are TSC certified
• A Masters degree in education/ social sciences is not compulsory, it would be an added advantage.
• You have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills that encompass trust and respect
• You have excellent communication and people management skills
• You have the ability to be flexible, adaptable, innovative and creative
• You understand the complexities of working in a multi-faceted organization
• You have strong project management skills
• You have a passion for students character development
• You have high energy levels and can work in a highly confidential setting
• You have the ability to be flexible, adaptable, innovative and creative
• You understand the complexities of working in a multi-faceted organization
• You have a passion for students character development