JOB DESCRIPTION
‘Diploma Programme (DP) Coordinator’
Summary:
- Neev recognizes and promotes the role of the DP Coordinator as a pedagogical leader.
- In addition to being a great teacher, you will be part of the school’s leadership team that
works collaboratively to ensure that the IB programmes are delivered to the highest
standard possible.
- As Orchestrators you steer the process of change at a distance by facilitating the process
from within and by getting things in place through a process resembling orchestration
and carrying out three major tasks
o Chef (of Curriculum Elements)
o Pacesetter (of the Implementation Process) &
o Connector (of People, staff and stakeholders).
- Managing dependencies between activities and good coordination is nearly invisible
and most often recognised when it is lacking, requiring support from the teaching staff
to be successful in the role.
- Coordinators must provide a flexible environment through differentiated support to
allow teachers opportunity, incentive, and time to change their own classroom
practices, and experiment with teaching approaches to discover practices that work for
Neev.
Main working relationships - Section Head, Department HODs, Teachers, IB, coordinators
(CAS, TOK, EE), Career Counsellor
Main Responsibilities:
To coordinate, lead, and ensure effective curriculum planning and recording.
Person specification:
- Willingness to lead through collaboration and develop a coherent team approach to the
implementation and delivery of the Programme.
- Capacity to lead a team of educators as a pedagogical coach for the programme
- Active in driving the programmes curriculum development and curriculum
organisation.
- Assist the head in organising the programme on a day-to-day basis, including forward
planning, general admin, programme events and professional development.
- High level of cultural awareness and international mindedness.
- Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate lessons which stimulate and motivate students to
learn.
Day to day Responsibilities
- Maintaining a 40- 50% teaching schedule, the remaining portion of the time is spent
working closely with stakeholders, sharing the responsibility of pedagogical leadership,
by ensuring that the program is taught, planned and assessed collaboratively at all
instructional levels.
- Facilitate discussions with teachers on pedagogical aspects of the programme.
