Assistant Principal for Humanities

The Role:

The Assistant Principal for Humanities will ensure excellent provision for KS3, KS4 & KS5 to truly prepare our pupils to be successful at university and beyond. Working closely with the rest of the Strategic Leadership Team, this role will be accountable for standards and achievement of pupils within the faculty. This will involve the line management of Subject Leaders, including necessary support and monitoring. In addition, ensuring high standards of teaching and learning to continue the drive to raise standards of attainment so that all students make excellent progress.

As a member of the Academy’s Strategic Leadership Team, the successful candidate will contribute towards the Academy Improvement Plan of the whole academy. The successful candidate will be expected to take on a whole academy responsibility based on their experience, skills and interests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities and articulate clear values and moral purpose
• Standards and achievement for all areas within the faculty
• Subject coordination across the Academy
• Model excellence in the classroom, leading the development of colleagues at all levels
• Confidently monitor and evaluate data and identify priorities for continuous improvement
• Train, coach and support identified teachers and leaders
• Communicate effectively and build strong relationships with the whole academy community
• Evidence successful leadership experience as a middle or senior leader
• Deputise for other leaders including the Academy Principal or Vice Principal when require

Along with other senior staff, take responsibility for:

• Safeguarding
• Student culture, behavior and leadership
• Enrichment Curriculum
• Teacher development
• Staff CPD

Key tasks

• Through leading CPD, facilitating coaching and mentoring other identified teachers who need additional support
• To monitor and evaluate our training programmes and improve all areas of responsibility over time
• To line manage, mentor and/or coach allocated middle leaders and/or teachers to ensure they are being led and managed in the best possible way
• Together with the other leaders, provide overall leadership of the curriculum offer, to ensure that it provides our students with a transformational and rigorous curriculum which prepares our them for success at university and beyond
• Together with the other leaders, ensure all consequences, positive and negative (including all detentions, homework catch ups, in class isolation, internal exclusion and exclusion), are followed and executed in line with school policy, and where there are breaches of policy to take action to prevent reoccurrence, including holding staff to account
• To maintain positive relationships with all students
• To be a professional role model for all students and staff in demeanour, appearance and attitude
• To monitor standards in their area of responsibility, evaluate and contribute to wider self-evaluation of the school
• To represent Ark Globe Academy effectively to external stakeholders

Other specific responsibilities

• Lead line management meetings and circulate minutes promptly
• Attend and contribute to SLT meetings
• Supervise key parts of the school day as required (e.g. arrival or departure from school)
• Plan the provision and support for new staff
• To observe teaching, monitoring teachers’ knowledge of data, setting of homework, marking and challenge to students’ performance

Role review

This job description sets out the main duties of the post at the time of drafting. It cannot be read as an exhaustive list. These responsibilities will be discussed annually as part of the post holder’s annual performance review and are subject to change. However, it may be altered at any time subject to need in consultation with the post holder subject to the Executive Principal’s approval.

Qualification Criteria

• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK

Experience

• Evidence of being an outstanding teacher
• Experience of implementing behaviour management strategies consistently and effectively
• Experience of leading successful enrichment and extracurricular activities which inspire and motivate learners

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge in their curriculum area and pastoral provision
• An understanding of what an outstanding education looks like in the classroom
• An understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high expectations

Behaviours and attitude

• Model professionalism and high expectations at all times
• Contribute to the coordination of vision and strategy for the academy
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
• Evidence of the skills and competencies to develop effective relationships with parents, the community and other stakeholders

Leadership and Management

• Contributed to and deliver the vision for the school so that it is owned by all staff, students and parents
• Effective leadership of pastoral care and student well-being to achieve improved outcomes for students
• Initiated and lead on projects and programmes that have ensured challenging objectives have been met
• Experience of line managing staff to ensure high levels of consistency and leadership
• Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every student
• Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Teaching and Learning

• Consistently teaches excellent lessons that motivate, inspire and improve student attainment
• Use regular assessments to monitor progress and set targets, and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring and apply this process to your line management
• Ensured that all students, irrespective of their starting point, made exceptional academic progress

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.  

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.