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Academic Quality Manager (English)

Academic Quality Manager (English)

Dipont Education - Shanghai Office (Head Office)

Shanghai, China

Salary:
Excellent salary and benefits package
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
February 2023
Apply by:
16 December 2022

Job overview

Dipont Education is seeking an Academic Quality Manager (English) to be based in our head office in Shanghai, China. This is a high profile and dynamic position, crucial to the ongoing success of Dipont’s industry leading high school programs.

Background

For over 15 years, Dipont Education has delivered specialized curriculum through a network High School Program centers in over twenty cities across China. Curriculum varies from center to center, and includes CAIE IGCSE, AS & A-level, US College board Advanced Placement program and IBDP (International Baccalaureate Diploma Program)

The Academic Quality Manager (English) role is based in Dipont’s Shanghai head office but will operate with a company-wide responsibility, especially with regards to your subject specialism.

You will work with a like-minded team of professionals with a variety of subject specialisms to collectively support and develop pedagogy as well as being one of two experts in your own area.

About the role

Quality Assurance: You will undertake early probation and full lesson observations to ensure consistent quality of teaching and learning across all centers.

Professional Development: You will keep up-to-date with current educational developments specific to your subject area, in general pedagogy, and in education technology. You will share your insights through regular CPD sessions with teachers, as well as providing one on one support for teachers as required.

Curriculum Support: You will prepare, collect, standardize and coordinate a bank of subject resources, making these readily available for staff to use in all centers. You will lead a select group of teachers chosen from our partner schools meeting twice a year face to face to help facilitate this.

Partner Relations: You will offer support and advice to CPs if they have concerns about subject teachers. You will also be prepared to provide emergency cover within your subject area should a Centre face a major problem through loss of a staff member. Such cover will not normally extend continuously beyond five teaching days.

About you 

  • Qualified Teacher status/certification. 
  • Experienced practitioner with an excellent track record of results. 
  • Experienced at teaching a minimum of one externally examined syllabus in the specific subject area, either Cambridge, IB or Advanced Placement. 
  • Previous management experience preferable, either head of department, or role of whole school responsibility. 
  • Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 
  • Adaptable, resourceful and able to travel extensively.


You will join a growing network of educators with a focus on collaboration, support and career development. You will engage in high-quality educational practice in one of the fastest-growing sectors in global education.

About Dipont Education

We have been at the vanguard of international education in China for more than thirty years. We employ over 400 expat teachers and have more than 6,000 students enrolled in our high school programs, partnered with some of the best schools in the country. 

Early application preferred. To apply, please click here 

For further information, please contact martina.meneghetti@dipont.com or visit our website www.dipont.com.

About Dipont Education - Shanghai Office (Head Office)

Dipont Education is at the forefront of changing the way education is thought about and delivered in China. In addition to establishing and managing schools with elite Chinese and international partners, Dipont also provides innovative curricular and co-curricular programming, supported by more than 800 international educators across China.

For more than two decades, Dipont has introduced international educational ideas and resources into schools around China, through its independent international schools, international high school programmes and enrichment programmes and services.

We offer a range of career opportunities for international educators in cities across China, including Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. Visit our website for job opportunities.

Independent international schools

In partnership with exceptional schools, Dipont Education has created a new model for K-12 education in China.

Through partnership with King’s College School, Wimbledon, one of the UK’s top schools, and highly regarded Chinese schools, our independent schools provide an internationalised learning experience while maintaining the requirements of the Chinese curriculum.

Wuxi Dipont School of Arts and Science is operated with Nanjing Foreign Languages School, while Hangzhou Dipont School of Arts and Science is a partnership with The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. Both are among the best schools in China. In September 2021, we will open King's College School Chengdu.

The schools occupy state-of-the-art campuses and cater to Chinese and international students aged 3-18.

International high school programmes

Dipont works with partner schools around China to offer international curricula to students once they have completed their nine years of compulsory education in the Chinese system.

Studying in the schools’ international curriculum centers offers students the chance to gain the qualifications needed to study at higher education institutions overseas primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Enrichment programmes

Dipont delivers enrichment activities through 15 ENREACH learning centers, located in cities across China.

Delivered at weekends or during school holidays, ENREACH programmes and services provide the best of western and Chinese education to create critical, creative, independent thinkers who are successful in international colleges and education programs.

Programmes combine advanced courses with cultural, social and recreational opportunities and provide students with academic challenges designed to fit their abilities and interests.

Head Office: Dipont Education, 33rd floor, 1788 West Nanjing Road, Jing’an Shanghai, China.

Website: http://www.dipont.com

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