Head of School (Expat Only)

The Head of School will be responsible to build, develop and grow CISS School. This role is responsible for the overall professional leadership and management of the school curriculum and programme of instruction. The scope of responsibilities covers: institutional culture, quality of provision and service, school accreditation, authorisation of curriculum, compliance with academic standards, quality assurance and academic staff management.
The Head of School will represent CISS in working with parents, the Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam, the Department of Education and Training in Ho Chi Minh City, the Canadian Consulate General and Embassy, and other Canadian organizations in Vietnam, partners in Canada as well as other educational organizations and the communities.

Responsibilities
1. Leadership
● Chair Leadership Meetings.
● Responsible for inviting the BoD to leadership meeting once a month.
● Lead Strategic Development of schools in consultation with the Board of Directors.
● Represent CISS at nationally and internationally at events, conferences, fairs, etc.
● Set an example for CISS principals, vice-principals, department heads and teachers to be the role model in their field.
● Speaking and publishing regularly about CISS innovation in education and continue to strengthen the school’s presence in the local community.
● Ensure that there is a strong culture of accountability at all levels of school leadership.
2. School Vision and Mission
● Develop, build and ensure the vision of the school is clearly articulate, shared, understood and acted upon effectively through school’s objectives and operational plans that promote and sustain a culture of school improvement.
● Articulate a clear vision of effective instruction and assessment to ensure a child-centred approach that regards the success of each student as the primary focus of all activities.
● Build and provide an environment that validates students' needs to feel valued, safe and secure as a prerequisite to learning under the Child Protection/School Safeguarding Policies.
● Be responsible for the accreditations of CIS and IB school, and the memberships of EARCOS, CAIS and other global educational institutes.
● Establish relationships/partnerships with international organizations, colleges/universities in Canada and other countries to make it possible for CISS students to apply and be accepted to these institutions.
● Coordinate with CISS partners in Canada in implementing the e-Learning program for Grade 12 students in Vietnam to make sure that students will be granted an OSSD based on the pathway approved by the Ministry of Education, Ontario.
● Be responsible for working and coordinating with CISS partners in implementing the educational programs at CIS & BCIS, making sure that the requirements and standards set by the educational management bodies of the government and international organizations are met.
● Establish and develop relationships with the expat community in Vietnam, including families/parents, chambers of commerce, foreign affairs organizations, international companies/corporations and organizations (the Canadian Consulate General and Embassy, CanCham, Canadian enterprises and families in Ho Chi Minh City, and in Vietnam).
3. Leading Learning and Teaching
● Lead CISS leadership team to organize and manage teaching activities including extra- curricular programs in line with CISS objectives and vision.
● Set up the application policies and enrolment procedure based on CISS standards, collaborate with CISS leadership team and other related departments for implementation.
● Determine, organise and implement a curriculum that takes into account current educational thinking and innovation in teaching and learning through data-driven decision making in schools.
● Build and provide an academic culture that ensures a consistent and continuous focus on student achievement so that all students can achieve to their highest potential.
● Implement an effective assessment framework to monitor student progress, employing the use of data and benchmark analysis.
● Monitor, evaluate and review classroom learning practices, promote improvement strategies and model effective feedback that is focused, specific, and constructive; monitor student personnel services and recording system.
● Define standards and expectations of instructional practices and be visible in maintaining oversight.
● Ensures that practices in all settings reflect high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work, engage all students, and are personalized to accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness.
4. Personnel
● Responsible for appointment, supervision and dismissal of staff, as well as, the management of the administrative staff.
● Create a model for staff appraisal and teacher appraisal as part of the Staff Growth Plan. This plan would support the schools’ strategic aspirations.
● Review of recruitment, internship, mentoring, orientation and induction procedures on regular basis.
● Review of evaluation, monitoring and key performance indicators policy and procedures on regular basis.
5. Accountability
● Meet regularly with the BoD to report and advise on aspects, including policy review, set by an agenda.
● Produce the Annual Report – a comprehensive document that reports on schools’ academic performance, admissions, financial status, development of plans of a strategic nature.
● Approve the principals’ Annual Action Plan.
● Approve Schools’ Procedure Manual.
● Work towards valuable accreditations for schools. Coordinate to ensure schools are acting in accordance with their accreditation status and keep in touch with accreditation associations.
● Create and coordinate the forums and conversations between all Khoi Nguyen Education Schools.
● Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership structure with the BoD.
6. Academic Quality
● Ensure consistency of teaching and learning quality across grade levels; this includes direct contact with students in action and sporadic direct observation of teaching.
● Lead evaluation of the quality and relevance of the curriculum programs offered and advise the BoD on future directions.
● Ensure that good practices and innovative use of resources are shared across the teaching community.
● Ensure that complaints about the teaching, learning and staff are addressed expediently and followed up as needed.
● Ensure that complaints are adequately logged.
● Ensure that staff and students’ successes are acknowledged, celebrated and recorded.
● Research professional development opportunities to provide for staff and teachers.
7. Chronology (annual operations)
● Work with the principals to ensure that the deployment of people and resources meet the financial context and budget according to the strategic plan of the schools to maximize efficiency.
● Work with the principals and approve the Annual Calendar of contact days, first and last days for students, holidays, half term breaks, etc.
● Approve the yearly calendar of meetings and reporting.
● Approve courses offered, set class sizes and approve teaching allocation in to satisfy the efficiency of staff/student ratio.
8. Community
● Engage parents and carers, community figures, business or other organization with the school to enhance the relationship between the school and the community.
● Promote linkage between the Khoi Nguyen Group Schools and coordinate events between the schools.
● Promote linkage between CISS and other local and international schools.
● Establish partnerships with external agencies for the provision of academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well being of students and their families.
● Support and take part in coordinating the Alumni Association and hosting annual meets between Alumnus and share their success stories to the public.
9. Administration
● Ensure that the CISS’ Vision and Mission are translated into policies, procedures, practices and protocols that are concomitant with transparent working practices where the parents, students and staff feel safe and empowered.
● Approve the Teacher Handbooks, Procedure Manuals, Parents Handbooks and Year book.
● Coordinate the review cycles of internal and external publication material.
● In conjunction with the IT department, ensure the adequate implementation and development of the IT systems.
● In conjunction with PR-Marketing department, monitor social media pages and parent portal.
10. Communication
● Ensure that the established school identity is marketed and the mission statement as well as our message is marketed internally and externally.
● Report regularly to the BoD about strategic alignment.
● Act as Chief Editor of CISS Journey and contribute to updating the events.
● Ensure that the minutes of meetings are circulated to the people involved in a timely manner and actioned accordingly.
● Review external communication procedure regularly and recommend policy changes.
11. Finances
● Identify areas of growth and development.
● Monitor the annual budgets from each CISS schools.
● Ensure that the budget proposals from principals are sufficient to support the Group’s strategic plans.
● Monitor spending against budget and oversee the budget holders.
● Make decisions, together with the BoD, on purchases of capital equipment, tools and equipment for teaching activities and services.
● Ensure that the HR, Admissions and the Finance departments have effective and up to date protocols.
● Oversee admission processes and procedure and promote positive experiences for parents and students.
● Monitor enrollment numbers and work with Admission department on enrolment strategies.
12. Care and Guidance
● Ensure that all staffs are trained, equipped and aware of safeguarding policies.
● Host inspectors by Toronto District School Board or any foreign government groups or officials coming to the school.
● Ensure that policies and procedures support all students’ fulfilment of their potential and ambitions.
● Ensure that parents, students and staff adhere to a harmonious and mutually supportive work environment and the school provides the highest standard of pastoral care.
● Provide students with teacher appraisal and satisfaction survey to better understand students’ wants and needs.
● Act as arbiter of permanent exclusion.
● Deliver speeches for special school events (graduation, success assembly, etc.).

Qualifications
● Strong background in instructional leadership.
● Experience with Canadian education system and K-12 school model; experience with global education system (IB, AP) would be an advantage.
● Experience in recruiting Canadian Teachers, and managing a diverse multi-cultural team and faculty.
● Proven leadership and management skills in high performing academic organisations.
● Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written.
● Strong influencing, negotiation, persuasive and collaborative skills.
● An advanced degree preferably in School Management and Instructional Leadership
● Minimum 10 years’ experience as Head of School

Contact
● Parents, Teachers and Students.
● CISS and Khoi Nguyen Education Group.
● Regular management meetings with school and executive management team.
● External contractors, consultants and suppliers.

Working condition
● Reports to Board of Directors.
● Based in the School with occasional business travel to the Canada and other countries.
● Expected to work beyond official work hours.

Terms of Employment
● CISS contractual terms and conditions for School Leadership.

- Health check
- December bonus
- Unlimited free lunch

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