Head of Art-secondary

8 months ago

UAE, United Arab Emirates Yasmina British Academy Full time

Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding English Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognised and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Yasmina British Academy is an exceptional place to work. It has an exciting, diverse and progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE and A Level result in the UAE. Furthermore, the Academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated Yasmina British Academy as ‘Outstanding’ in all six performance standards, putting it amongst the top schools in the UAE.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assist academy in achieving its overall vision and strategic intentions and to contribute to the achievement of relevant targets as set out in the academy’s improvement plan and self-evaluation form
- Comply with the academy’s Performance Management Policy ensuring challenging annual targets are set and to fulfil the role of performance management reviewer if directed to do so by the principal
- Lead strategic direction and development of the department, including but not limited to setting the vision, analysing data, improvement planning, target setting and ongoing self-evaluation.
- Create a culture of high performance.
- Further develop an outstanding teaching and learning culture ensuring outstanding achievement for all.
- Lead on curriculum development ensuring outstanding provision for all, including an enhanced extra and co-curricular programme.
- Lead and manage staff, including but not limited to overseeing staffing, recruitment, performance appraisal and professional development.
- Communicate effectively and proactively with all stakeholders.
- Play a lead role in developing key policies and practices that support the Academy’s overall aims, vision and values.

**Setting the strategic direction and development of the Department through**:

- Developing policies and practices leading to high quality outcomes for all students at all Key Stages within the department.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of learning and teaching and of systems/practices; evaluating their impact on student progress and standards and thereby identifying further areas for development whilst encouraging the sharing of best practice and fostering a culture of high reward and praise.
- Ensuring that all practices promote student progression; improved achievements; a positive ethos and the commitment of staff to shared goals.
- Developing a department development plan through collaborative work that dovetails and supports the whole academy’s development and its commitment to raising standards.

**Leading on Learning and Teaching through**:

- Monitoring and reviewing students' progress through the use of appropriate data; home learning; student voice; lesson observations; student work reviews and parental engagement.
- Identifying through Performance Management, individual training needs and ensuring that those needs are met.
- Identifying and implanting strategies to enhance Learning and Teaching within the Department including the use of emerging learning technologies.
- Modelling outstanding practice in Learning and Teaching.
- Involving external advice and expertise where this would further benefit and enhance the learning agenda and therefore student progress, achievement and standards.

**Leading on Curriculum, Data and Recording and Reporting through**:

- Leading curriculum development and resourcing.
- Ensuring that appropriate and relevant schemes of work are developed, in place, and regularly reviewed and evaluated, for all year groups and courses. These must include suitable provision for SEN/POD, G&T, and EAL students
- Ensuring that students are prepared effectively for examinations, and other assessments.
- Analysing and interpreting relevant school data, to inform policies and department/school SEF writing
- Using performance data to inform learning episodes and therefore ensuring the Learning and Teaching continue to ‘add value
- Monitoring student progress and achievement against targets, identifying students who are underachieving and where necessary create and implement effective plans of action to support those students.

**Leading and Managing Staff**
- Setting clear expectations and establishing constructive working relationships with colleagues at all levels within the Department.
- Developing responsibilities and delegating tasks appropriately.
- Engaging in Performance Management as required by the academy's policy and using the process to develop personal and professional effectiveness of self and others.
- Leading the Professional Development of identified staff to enable all members to achieve expertise in Learning and Teaching.
- Foster a sense of 'people' and 'team spirit' through a culture of high reward and praise.
- In collaboration with the SLT, ensure departmental systems and practices support whole academy policies and th

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