Head Of Primary - Aug 2024 - Chengdu, China

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Head of Primary
Chengdu, China
Region: Far East and South East Asia
Start Date: August 2024
School Curriculum: Schools own / AP
Age of Students: from 3 to 18 years
The BASIS Group
BASIS International and Bilingual Schools is a rapidly growing network of schools in China with a tradition of academic excellence and rigour. Their first school opened in Shenzhen in 2015 and since then they have opened schools in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu and Wuhan, with two new schools coming to Shenzhen in 2024.
The BASIS mission is to provide students with transformative early childhood and K K-12 education. With the cutting-edge BASIS Curriculum, through exceptional teaching and faculty mentoring, they will produce graduates who have broad intellectual capabilities, international perspectives, critical thinking proficiency, and creative problem-solving skills to be leaders in their future academic and professional lives. BASIS graduates have been accepted into some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the world, including Princeton, Oxford, Cornell, Imperial College London, MIT, University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins, and many more-with an overall acceptance rate of nearly 100% for Top 50 U.S. universities.
Teaching in China with this school group offers many unique benefits and opportunities. Teachers enjoy excellent facilities and resources, a higher standard of living with perks such as paid housing, and the opportunity to explore and continue their own learning as part of a new culture and geographic area. The group’s network of schools in China is rapidly growing, offering excellent opportunity for growth, promotion and development.
BASIS Chengdu
The BASIS International/Bilingual Chengdu campus opened its doors in August 2022, with international and bilingual students housed on one site. There is an overall capacity for 1900 students, and boarding facilities on-site. The impressive campus covers an area of about 88,000 m2, with an auditorium, a library, a black-box theatre, a cafeteria, a gymnasium, and two sports fields with running tracks of 200-300 metres. Teaching facilities include standard classrooms, specialised classrooms for labs, fine arts, music, etc.
Living and Working in Chengdu
Although one of China’s less explored cities - Chengdu is a key economic hub in southwest China, with a population of 14 million, including 14,000 ex-pats working for a variety of companies, including Intel, Toyota, Microsoft, and various international schools. Chengdu has a high standard of living but lower living costs and this has given the city the reputation of being easy to move to and hard to leave. It is a popular tourist destination; famous as home to the Pandas, Sichuan food, mountains, temples and Giant Buddha’s.
Requirements
Requirements and Responsibilities
Highly focused on academic outcomes, the Head of Primary is responsible for establishing student support programmes that lead to exceptional student outcomes. Through elevated expectations of student capabilities and a willingness to ensure that all students have the support they need to be successful, this person will take a data driven approach to assessing the needs of the students and allocating the resources needed to enhance the students’ educational experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate primary academic programmes to support students in situations relating to social integration in/out of the classroom
• Instruct teachers on child development best practices
• Create procedures for extreme behaviour occurrences
• Monitor parent communications
• Manage parent expectations
• Create procedures for collecting or organising substitute plans and recruiting Teachers and Teaching Fellows for substitute duty, which the Curriculum Coordinator then manages

Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s preferred
• 3-5 years experience in an educational setting
• Administrative experience in an educational setting preferred
• Open to new ideas in teaching.
• Knowledgeable, passionate, and believe in transforming education.
• Able to motivate students to reach their highest potential while also elevating own skills through peer collaboration and a culture where learning is of the utmost importance.
• Being a brand new school, flexibility is important, as are strong relationship-building skills and the ability to build a strong school community.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive: Salaries for teaching roles are approximately $55-65k USD per annum (360-420k RMB), more for leadership roles
• Start and end of employment travel provided
• Housing provided by the school
• Moving in allowance
• Free tuition for 2 students (3 for teaching couples) if dependent visas are being issued
• Generous Bonus Structure, including compliance bonus, attendance bonus, and retirement bonus
• Global Insurance
• 3-year contract
• Fantastic chance to join a successful and expanding global network of schools with opportunities for career growth and advancement

About Us:

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What’s Next:
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• Coordinate primary academic programmes to support students in situations relating to social integration in/out of the classroom
• Instruct teachers on child development best practices
• Create procedures for extreme behaviour occurrences
• Monitor parent communications
• Manage parent expectations
• Create procedures for collecting or organising substitute plans and recruiting Teachers and Teaching Fellows for substitute duty, which the Curriculum Coordinator then manage