Assistant Principal – Pastoral

Full Time Teaching / Education

Website GEMS Education

GEMS Education, initially Global Education Management Systems (GEMS), is an international education company. It is a global advisory and educational management firm, and is the largest operator of kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, with a network of over 70 schools in over a dozen countries. Founded by Sunny Varkey, GEMS provides pre-school, primary, and secondary education.

Assistant Principal – Pastoral

Roles and responsibilities will include:

  • Developing, maintaining and regularly reviewing effective behaviour systems to ensure outstanding learning behaviours across all parts of the school
  • Ensuring systems for child safeguarding and child protection are robust and improved across the school
  • Overseeing the Inclusion department to ensure personalized learning is supported in every aspect; be it academically, socially, or emotionally
  • Accountability for the execution of the wellbeing strategy and initiatives across the school
  • Delivering appropriate training for staff to ensure that they can effectively implement behaviour and safeguarding systems to ensure consistency across the school
  • Monitoring and evaluating the quality of students’ personal and social development and their protection, care, guidance and support
  • Ensuring appropriate systems and structures are in place to hold staff to account
  • Ensuring policies and procedures related to pastoral care, safeguarding and child protection are formalised and implemented across the school
  • Supporting the development of a culture in the school which is stakeholder focused and aims to improve levels of engagement and satisfaction for students, parents, staff and community stakeholders

To be considered for this role, you should have:

  • Experience of working with data management system
  • The ability to work constructively as part of a team understanding roles and responsibilities, including own
  • The ability to build and form good relationships with young people, colleagues and other professionals
  • Commitment to the highest standards of child protection
  • The ability to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment, without distractions
  • Full training for safeguarding in schools
  • Working knowledge of Data Protection
  • Knowledge of, and ability to utilise, ICT to access and retrieve information. Particularly Microsoft Word & Excel
  • Excellent administrative and organisational skills
  • The ability to communicate effectively with students, staff, parents and other related professionals both orally and in writing
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to work with different agencies to improve student outcomes
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt to and drive change as required

This role would be suitable for somebody with experience of pastoral systems in a large school looking to take the next step to senior leadership or a senior pastoral leader in a small school looking to extend their experience.About Your Benefits
All positions attract an excellent remuneration package

To apply for this job please visit careers.gemseducation.com.

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