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Head of Early Years - Huili School Nantong

school
Wellington College China
location
Nantong, China
housing
Housing Allowance provided on a monthly basis
airfair
Annual Home Leave Flight Allowance for self and eligible dependents
Start date
Start August 2021
2 years
1
  • Early Childhood
  • Director/Principal, Licensed Teacher
  • Bachelor
  • 15 years of teaching experience
  • Education
  • PGCE/QTS
  • Master Degree preferred 
  • A minimum of 10 years working experience in education required 
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in leading a school in senior-level and large financial budgets  
  • Knowledge of UK education system,  
  • Understanding of international independent education 

 

Preferred Aptitudes

  • Innovative, creative problem-solver   
  • Strong emotional intelligence   
  • Reliable, tenacious and self-motivated   
  • Culturally sensitive    
  • Passionate about quality with an eye for detail and a restless desire to reflect and improve   
  • Financially astute and commercially sharp  
  • Highly influential and personable  
  • Articulate and persuasive  
  • Globally minded  
  • Flexible and able to think on his/her feet.  
  • International medical insurance cover for self and dependents
  • Housing Allowance provided on a monthly basis
  • Annual Home Leave Flight Allowance for self and eligible dependents
  • Two child places
  • Relocation allowance

The Founding Head of Early Years will lead on preparations for the school opening in August 2022. This will comprise working closely with other members of the founding team to ensure Early Years  school recruitment, resources, curricula and admission are successfully completed. As a founding member of the senior leadership team (SLT), the Head of Early Years will need to display dedication, flexibility and the capacity to lead teams and solve problems.   

The Founding Head of Early Years will be a member of the SLT and attend Monthly Management Meetings to report progress to the Board of Governors. 

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Report to the Master on all issues relating to the efficient management and organisation of the Nursery. 
  • Provide strategic direction and leadership to the Nursery. 
  • Control budgets and finances within the Nursery and offer direction and support to Nursery School coordinators and subject leaders, as when aspects of financial responsibility are delegated to them. 
  • Review and produce all materials to inform all stakeholders and prospective pupils. 
  • Ensure the school curriculum is of an excellent quality. 
  • Provide advice and guidance on the best educational learning environments, indoors and outdoors and resources for young children. 
  • Serve as an instructional leader to develop a system for continuous improvement of teaching and learning. 
  • Ensure an orderly, stimulating and motivational culture with a strong sense of school community. 
  • Establish a strong understanding of Wellington College and its ethos and traditions. 
  • Once open, review operating budgets and provide financial accountability. 
  • Once open, manage the school in a fiscally responsible manner. 
  • Ensure that the physical resources of the Nursery are utilised as effectively and efficiently as possible. 
  • Ensure the provision of high-quality learning through excellence in service delivery and performance management of people and resources. 
  • Manage the budget for professional development throughout the Nursery. 
  • Manage the budget for educational resources throughout the Nursery.  
  • Direct recruitment and on-going deployment of staffing and manpower throughout the Nursery.  
  • Ensure policies, practices and parental communications are established and maintained to support the physical, emotional and social development of the individual student. 
  • Be accountable for the compliance of all local and any national regulations with regards to Early Years education, in collaboration with the Chinese Deputy of EY. 
  • Implement and monitor the general policies, including those for Behaviour, Antibullying, Discipline and Child Protection within the Nursery. 

 

Leadership 

  • Work with the Master and direct the Nursery middle leaders to create and implement the strategic plan which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, increasing teacher’s effectiveness and securing school improvement. 
  • Support the Master in the management and direction of Wellington College as a whole. 
  • Leadand support middle team leaders and subject co-ordinators in the process of whole school and subject self-review. To mentor all team and subject leaders in their role and signpost them to any relevant CPD which is aligned to the nursery`s strategic plans for improvement.  
  • Work with the Master to develop a strategic view for the school in its community and analyse and plan for its future needs and further development within the local, national and international context. 
  • Take personal responsibility for improving children’s eagerness to learn and mitigating the problems they face, with a responsibility to oversee the provision of education for those children who have a special educational need. 
  • Develop and maintain respect across all stakeholders, inspire individuals to contribute positively to shared ideas and plans for the school. 
  • Set the tone and model the values of the school. 
  • Share responsibility for and assist where required, the Director of Admissions in the introduction/viewing of the school by prospective parents. 

 

Educational Attainment And Delivery 

  • Create a culture and environment in which young children thrive and thus drive up educational standards and improve outcomes for all. 
  • Ensure that a modern, 21st-century bilingual curriculum is developed and delivered through effective learning and assessment practice. 
  • Drive innovation in education, ensuring that the school is able to respond to a changing external environment and that the skills, learning and aspirations of the pupils are developed and enhanced at all key stages. 
  • Ensure that a high-quality education experience is available for all pupils who attend the school. 
  • Nurture and develop the Wellington Identity through utilising the Wellington aptitudes that lie within each child and ensure this philosophy underpins a personalised learning approach whilst also promoting the Wellington Core Values. 

 

Teaching And Learning  

  • Establish and maintain an environment and a code of behaviour which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning, and high standards of achievement, good behaviour and discipline. 
  • Report and monitor the standards of teaching and learning.  
  • Provide effective links with the community to extend the curriculum and enhance teaching and learning. 
  • Maintain an effective partnership with parents to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.  
  • Ensure that professional development opportunities for all staff are linked to individual and school needs through performance management and the school development plan.  
  • Keep an accurate record of staff absence and communicate this to the relevant administrative departments. 

 

Partnerships 

  • Work in partnership with parents to raise educational standards, promote lifelong learning, and improve outcomes for all.  
  • Remain corporate at all times, promote and protect the reputation of Wellington. 
  • Support and develop public service, internationalism and social enterprise activities. 

 

Resources And Performance Management 

  • Deliver effective operational management for the school within the Nursery budget and in accordance with financial probity. 
  • Implement a performance management framework for the delivery of high quality services through high quality people performance. 
  • Work to, and report on, targets for achievement and operation of the school, and personal targets as agreed by the School Affairs Committee.  
  • Set high standards and expectations for personal, children, staff and committee members’ behaviours and actions in support of the achievement of the school’s intended outcomes. 
  • Recruit, manage, develop and motivate a committed, effective and diverse workforce that has a clear understanding of the vision of the school and where individuals have personal role clarity enabling and promoting high quality learning. 
  • Develop strategic approaches to support and monitor positive transformational change across all aspects of school life. 
  • Ensure the organisation structure and ways of working support effective education and learning. 
  • Act in accordance with legislation affecting the conduct of the school, particularly that governing health and safety matters and employment rights. 
This is a Direct to School Job
This is a Direct to School Job

Wellington College China is a partner of Wellington College in England.  It has five schools and two nurseries in China, all in exciting, international cities.   Our schools provide an outstanding education for 2,150 local and international children aged between 2 and 18 years old.

Success in public examinations is important and we celebrate it. However, at Wellington College, excellent exam results and great university destinations, in the UK and worldwide, are only part of the picture. We want our pupils to be the very best people that they can be: to be kind, to have integrity in their actions, to take responsibility when necessary, to have respect for their environment, for others and themselves, and finally to show courage when needed. The Wellington values frame the way we think about what it is be a Wellingtonian, including the ways we work and what we hope to become.

Our Huili Schools combine Wellington’s holistic, British approach to educating the whole child, with the enduring strengths of the Chinese curriculum and focus on learning.  We talk about giving our pupils the best of both worlds.  Half our lessons are in English and half in Chinese.  Half our teachers are English-speakers and half are Chinese.  It is our desire to imbue every pupil with our five core values: courage, integrity, respect, kindness and responsibility. We encourage and expect our Chinese pupils to develop the Wellington identity: to be inspired, intellectual, independent, individual and inclusive.   

Huili School Shanghai

Huili Nursery Shanghai

Huili School Hangzhou

Huili School Nantong

Tianjin International School

This is a Direct to School Job
This is a Direct to School Job
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