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Deputy Rector

Kampala, Uganda * Full-time
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Greenhill Academy

Category: Administration Total Positions: Location: Kampala, Uganda Full-time Salary: Attractive Posted 1 year ago
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• KPI-1: Strategic oversight – Planning & Management (40%) • Develop and implement strategic plans aligned with the Institution’s mission and objectives. • Collaborate with Heads of Schools to prepare annual school business plans; and ensure that comprehensive and thorough objective-based budgeting takes place. • Provide visionary leadership to ensure organizational growth and sustainability. • Establish the long-term vision and strategic objectives for the schools, ensuring they align with the overall Institutional Mission. • Ensures effective use of resources (human, financial, material) to achieve strategic goals. • Enhance synergy: collaborates within Greenhill Schools, and external partners to maintain a unified direction. • Tracks progress against strategic goals and adjust plans as needed to respond to emerging challenges or opportunities. • Manage financial performance, budgeting, and resource allocation. • Representation: In collaboration with the Rector, Liaises with major institutions and government departments • KPI-2: Operational Oversight (30%) • Curriculum Development, Implementation, monitoring and review • Collaborate with school leadership to design innovative, inclusive curricula that align with strategic goals and national competitiveness. • Integrate modern tools, skills, and industry needs while providing oversight for effective implementation and performance tracking. • Address challenges collaboratively, lead periodic curriculum evaluations, and use stakeholder feedback to drive continuous improvement. • Performance Tracking: Ensure systems are in place to track student progress and evaluate teaching effectiveness. • Curriculum Evaluation: Lead periodic evaluations of the curriculum’s relevance, effectiveness, and alignment with educational needs. • Feedback and Improvement: Gather feedback from all stakeholders to inform enhancements and integrate recommendations to improve outcomes. • Ensure outstanding Learning and Teaching standards are maintained at all times • Maintain high academic standards by tracking key performance indicators, including exam results and assessments for the schools. • Teacher Performance: Establish benchmarks, conduct evaluations, facilitate professional development, and address areas of underperformance. • Learner Outcomes: Monitor student progress, identify performance gaps, and promote holistic development. • Quality Assurance: Ensure systems are in place to monitor quality of teaching and learning while maintaining compliance with standards. • Provide oversight in Tracking school, Teachers and Learners performance aiming for outstanding standards of learning and teaching at all times. • Ensure consistent achievement of high academic standards across all schools and grade levels. • Monitor and promote progress in key performance indicators such as exam results, student engagement, and class assessments. • Establish clear performance benchmarks for teachers and ensure regular evaluations based on teaching quality and effectiveness. • Support Heads of School in addressing underperformance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. • Quality Assurance and Standards: Ensure systems are in place to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning strategies. • Conduct regular audits of teaching practices, lesson plans, and classroom delivery to maintain consistency and quality. • KPI-3: Leadership Development, Team Management, Supervision, Performance Oversight, Recruitment, and Capacity Building of Staff: • Recruitment services • Mentor and empower SMT members: Provide mentorship and support to SMT members, cultivating a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance institutional success. • Ensure SMT targets align with strategic objectives and student achievement. Ensure SMT targets are strategically aligned with institutional goals and prioritized to optimize student achievement and academic excellence. • Culture change: Foster a positive organizational culture and promote collaboration • Performance oversight: In collaboration with the Rector, Monitor and review performance and, in particular, holding staff accountable for meeting the success criteria and delivering any improvement goals which have been identified; taking decisive action in the case of poor performance. • Ensuring that each member of the SMT fully understands the outcomes that are expected of them and that they are aware of the success criteria which pertain to their work. • KPI-4: Enhance Quality Assurance in Teaching and Examinations • Monitor and evaluate Institutional performance against strategic goals. • Ensure that all quality assurance processes and standards are documented, understood and consistently applied by team members. • Establish clear policies and benchmarks to ensure high-quality teaching practices and rigorous assessment standards. • Oversee regular evaluations of teaching methods, examination processes, and academic outcomes to maintain consistency and excellence. • Ensure the implementation of robust systems to review and improve teaching strategies and examination procedures. • Data Analysis: Use data-driven approaches to monitor trends in teachers and student performance and identify areas requiring improvement. • Promote accountability by ensuring compliance with internal and external academic standards. • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with educational leaders, teachers, and external bodies to maintain the institution’s reputation for quality in academics. • Continuous Improvement: Champion initiatives that foster innovation and continuous improvement in teaching and assessment practices. • Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory standards. • Online job fairs • KPI-5: Budgeting • Provide support to the Rector to ensure that Greenhill Schools’ budgets align with strategic objectives and are executed promptly. • KPI-6: Policies, process adherence & Compliance • Uphold GAL Vision, Mission, Code of conduct, Core values & policies. • Ensure policies, processes are adhered to at all levels • At all times behaving in a way that demonstrates the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behaviour • KPI-7: Risk Management and Innovation • Ensure that Greenhill Schools risk management processes are effectively embedded in the Schools and perform the quarterly review of the Greenhill Schools risks/risk register. Report the risks to the Rector and Risk Coordinator. • Generate new ideas/innovation initiatives and translate them into tangible outcomes. • Promote a culture of creativity, innovation, encouragement, support, challenge that will effectively develop pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural aspects (holistic development) so that they can be prepared for adult life. • KPI-8: Stakeholder Engagement • Maintain and strengthen the Greenhill brand both internally and externally. • Collaborate with the Rector and Senior Management Team (SMT) to enhance parent relations and effectively address parent appeals. • Establish transparent and effective communication channels with stakeholders, including parents, students, staff, and the wider community. • Develop and implement engagement initiatives that foster positive relationships between the school and its stakeholders. • Uphold high standards of customer service to ensure stakeholder concerns are addressed efficiently and professionally.
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QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
• Master’s degree in Education or a related field. Post Graduate diploma in a related field is an added advantage. • Over 15 years work experience, at least 10 of which should have been at Senior Management level in an Institution or organization offering education services or similar role. • Extensive experience in academic leadership, policy, and governance. • Proven ability to lead and inspire diverse teams and foster inclusivity. • Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, decision-making, emotional resourcefulness and problem solving skills. • Budget management and financial planning proficiency. • Experience or knowledge in teaching, curriculum development, and educational administration. • Awareness of trends and challenges in education sector.
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