About Christel House: Christel House is a non-profit organization that specializes in educating and transforming the lives of impoverished children around the world.
Job Title: Head Mistress
Job Overview: The Head Mistress is primarily responsible for driving and overseeing the smooth running of the academic program of the school. She participates in decision making process as part of the senior leadership team and plans improvements that address the school’s academic goals. The principal works as a team leader supervising the planning and implementation of the academic curriculum as well as the co-curricular activities.
Main Roles & Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
Develop strategy linked to [in consultation with Deputy Principals (DPs) and Instructional Coaches ( IC) ]:
- Whole school yearly priorities [academic and non-academic]
- Implementation plans [including milestones and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) linked to the above
- Any other changes at the school level
Reviews:
- Other Programs and Services (P&S) teams' yearly priorities and implementation plan
- Domain Experts’ (DEs) subject-level priorities and goals [with DPs and IC]
- IC's plan in terms of DE development goals and strategy [along with DPs]
Leadership Development and Training
Leadership Development of DPs through:
- One on one sessions
- Combined learning walks and observations – aimed at upskilling and creating shared understanding
- Observation of other spaces led by the DPs followed by feedback [section meetings, result analysis etc.]
Leadership development of IC through:
- One on one meetings to share feedback and suggestions
Leadership development of the heads of RTI / Special Education, Library, Character Development Program (CDP) and Career Guidance Program (CGP) [internal] through:
- One on one check-ins with heads
- Feedback on the head's lesson plans
- Observation and feedback of their classes
- Appraisal discussion of all the heads reporting to them
Teacher training and professional development
Teacher training:
- Creates whole school trainings along with the DPs and IC
- Reviews subject / DE's department level trainings along with the DPs and IC
- Teacher development [mainly through]:
- Learning walks and classroom observations of main and RTI classes as well as CDP and internal CGP classes followed by sharing trends / observations with the heads of the respective departments
Curriculum and learning standards
- Reviews curriculums of all grades and subjects [along with DPs] and other P&S teams
- Ensures scaffolding of curriculum across section based on learning standards, board requirement and needs of the school
- Does checks with DPs and other P&S Heads to monitor implementation of curriculum
- Drives periodic review and upgradation of learning standards
Assessments
- Does random checks / sample reviews of assessments across sections and for different subjects [spread through the year]
- Ensures standard of assessments being consistent across primary, middle and high school
- Gets an overview of Formative and Summative Assessment data from DPs and checks with DPs to get updates on the next steps and impact
School culture
- Role models and actively works on school culture rooted in organizational values
- Deals with high level escalations in terms of teacher issues / expectation,
- Deals with high level escalations in terms of student disciplinary issues
- Monitors and evaluates aspects linked to the student values (in focus) at a whole school level and supports DPs as required
Focus Areas
- Reviews implementation of focus areas [through learning walks, focus groups etc.]
- Leads monthly M&E meetings for focus areas [which will also include the DPs, IC and STM] and supports DPs wherever required
Meetings
- Leads business plan-related meetings for academics + other P&S departments [strategy + operational planning] after the initial HOA-led meeting
- Leads weekly heads meeting
- Lead whole school meetings
- Lead leadership meetings
- Leads monthly focus area M&E meetings
- Leads check-in meetings with DPs and other P&S heads
- Leads all professional development planning meetings
- Leads DE meetings [academic related aspects] which are not led by the IC and the Head Education Strategy and Learning (HESL)
- Leads performance appraisal meetings of people who report to them
- Participates in review meetings for focus areas led by HESL
- Participate in result analysis meetings and department meetings when feasible
- Participates in leadership stepbacks
- Participate in leadership training meetings
- Reviews section meetings and gives feedback [take turns in going to different section meetings]
- Participates in international professional development meetings
- Reports
- Review monthly report
- Reviews Business Plan
- Reviews budget
Other Important tasks:
- Monitors academic progress of students and strategizes (in collaboration with DPs) to enhance student learning levels
- Review implementation of the school’s focus areas along with the Deputy Principals and Instructional Coaches.
- Contributes to the development of systems and structures to improve teacher practices within the school.
- Undertakes additional tasks as assigned by the Head of Academics to support the overall functioning of the school.
- Review student admissions
- Drives the hiring process in association with HOA and DPs
- Liaises with external agencies to explore opportunities for inter-school events and teacher development
- Ensures that all Education Board-related documentation is carried out in a timely manner
- Coordinates with allied programs and services for the smooth functioning of the school
Pay: Up to ₹50,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Food provided
- Health insurance
- Leave encashment
- Provident Fund
Work Location: In person
