Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Subject Head English di The Learning Lab, Singapore Southwest (Singapore) - Maukerja

Subject Heads (SHs) are responsible for managing the teachers at their centre/zone for their respective subjects. SHs’ leadership of their teaching teams at the centre/zone is essential in ensuring that teachers demonstrate not only excellence in teaching, assessment, and parent communication, but also a strong sense of corporate citizenship in forwarding TLL’s business goals. Integral to this is the SH’s ability to work not only with their teachers, but also with the teams at their centre/zone, to develop a positive work culture that promotes TLL’s values and teaching standards, and supports teachers in doing their best to nurture, teach and develop TLL’s students.

SHs have a matrix reporting structure with two complementary aspects to their work. SHs work under the guidance of their respective Lead Subject Head to foster teaching excellence in their respective subject at their centre/zone, through mentoring, and providing professional development support of their teachers. SHs work under the Academic Director of their centre/zone to drive a high standard of operational management of the centre, ensuring that TLL’s centres present as premium learning centres and attract and retain teachers of the highest calibre.

Accountabilities, responsibilities, and main duties:

Management of Teachers and Teaching

You will manage and lead a team of teachers at your centre/zone, for whom you are to:

• Provide guidance and mentoring to ensure that your teachers’ professional behaviour and teaching practices uphold the highest level of academic excellence, which includes not only consistently exemplary teaching in alignment with TLL’s teaching and learning framework, but also timely and effective parent communication and engagement.
• Use positive communication strategies to ensure that your team of teachers feels engaged and valued in the TLL community, understand their responsibilities, the values that TLL espouses, the directions of the company, and participate actively to enable company processes and directives to be carried out successfully.
• As expected of all managers, SHs’ responsibilities include performance management and appraisal, the goal of which is to ensure that teachers are guided in understanding how to work towards consistently high standards of professional behaviour and work performance.

Parent and Student Management

• To build strong relationships with the parents and households through timely and planned implementation of communication strategies and processes at your centre, including but not limited to feedback cases and student progress reports.
• To help the Academic Director monitor the implementation of Child Protection guidelines and maintain compliance with health and safety standards and implement changes where necessary.
• To reduce cases of parent dissatisfaction regarding teacher behaviour or performance, failing which, you should liaise with teachers regarding such cases, including arrangement of observations and communication with parents, where appropriate.

Curriculum Quality and Fidelity

• To develop and maintain strong and current knowledge of your teachers’ practices and enactment of the curriculum in the classroom, and to be able to act as a catalyst of change in improving curriculum materials by providing strong channels of feedback from your team of teachers to the curriculum team.
• To ensure that curriculum materials provide your team of teachers with strong teaching resources that meet customer needs, preferences and expectations, you are to work with the LSH and the other SHs within your discipline to provide useful, implementable feedback to the respective subject curriculum teams in a timely manner.
• To use your educational knowledge and teaching expertise to contribute towards enrolment, student retention and re-registration targets, through performance management, in regard to teaching parent communication and professional conduct. You are also expected to participate in marketing initiatives including giving webinars, parent seminars and hosting open houses.
• To work collaboratively with the centre operations team on the day-to-day operational management of the centre, providing support for any operational issues that may impact teaching.

Other Responsibilities

• To teach approximately 10 hours per week, including covering classes where the teachers are absent due to annual, medical or other leave.
• To undertake responsibilities and tasks assigned by senior management and CEO to further TLL’s business goals
• To participate in the recruitment and onboarding of new teachers.

Snapshots of our ideal candidate:

•Degree in a specific discipline or Education, recognised teaching qualification, preferably with Ministry of Education or equivalent experience.

•Academic credibility with a track record of excellence in teaching, with at least 4 years’ of experience, preferably at TLL, and with both Primary and Secondary teaching experience preferred.

•Interest in developing academic leadership and education management skills,

•Ability to build good rapport across all levels, demonstrating strong organisational knowledge, good communication and interpersonal skills.

•Sound understanding of national curriculum, parent expectations.

•Resilient under pressure.

•Ability to engage parents and students.

•Comfortable with ambiguity, and the demands of working in a business-oriented fast paced environment.

•Willingness to work on Saturday and/or Sunday, if required.