Nursery Headteacher

at  Teach Away

Contract Length: 1 year
Number of Vacancies: 2

Student Level:

• Early Childhood

Eligible Candidates:

• University Graduate, Licensed Teacher, Director/Principal

School Requirements:

• Education Required: Bachelor
• Minimum Teaching Experience: 3 years of teaching experience
• Major: Bachelor of Early Childhood Education + Educational Leadership Qualification
• Required Certificates:

Teaching Credential/License

Job Benefits:

• Paid annual leave of four (4) weeks
• Standard Medical Insurance (employee only)
• Seventy percent (70) percent tuition discount for the first eldest child and fifty (50%) discounts on tuition fees for the younger child/children enrolled at Shomoukh Early Childhood Education
• Omani Visa fees coverage (employee only)

Job Description:
Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Promote a secure foundation to achieve high standards in all areas of the nursery’s work.
• Develop programs for enabling nursery students and families to meet academic goals.
• Hold clear values and goals to ensure providing a world-class education for all year groups at the nursery.
• Maintain strong governance and actively support the governing board to understand its role and deliver its functions effectively; in particular, its functions to set nursery strategies, goals, development plans, expansions, and projects and hold the Head Teacher to account for students, staff, and financial performance.
• Maintain high-quality education by efficient management of teaching and learning and using student-cantered learning to realize the potential of all students.
• Maintain optimistic behaviour, positive relationships, and attitudes towards students and staff, and towards parents, government officials, and members of the local and international community.
• Promote a culture that maintains excellence, equality, and high expectations of all students.
• provide vision, leadership, and direction for the nursery academic team, students and parents and ensure that the nursery is managed and organized to meet its aims, targets, vision, and mission.
• Ensure the top level of professional representation of the nursery mission, vision, values, accomplishments, and goals in front of the students and staff, and towards parents, government officials and members of the local and international community.
• Lead integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity, with adherence to the policies, regulations, and instructions of the company, the nursery, the Omani Ministry of Social Development, and the International Education Standards.
• Maintain wide knowledge and understanding of education and nursery systems locally, nationally and globally, and pursue continuous development of the nursery and the academic team.
• Work with strategic and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles cantered on the nursery’s vision, mission, and marketing and development plans.
• Inspire and influence others - within and beyond the nursery - to believe in the fundamental importance of education in young people’s lives and to promote the value of education and how the nursery vision and mission fit with these values.
• Implement ambitious standards for all students through enhancing and assuring a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on students’ outcomes and yearly improvement plans.
• Ensure that the nursery’s systems, organization, policies, procedures, and processes are well structured, efficient, and fit for purpose, keeping the principles of transparency, integrity, and probity.
• Evaluate the nursery’s performance to identify the priorities for continuous improvement and raising standards; ensuring equality of opportunity for all and keeping the nursery’s growth, improvement, and enhanced students’ performance as a main priority.
• Secure an excellent level of education through an analytical understanding of how students learn and of the core methodologies of successful classroom practice and curriculum design, leading to rich curriculum opportunities and pupils’ outstanding results.
• Spot all emerging challenges, coach and aspire current leaders in a climate where excellence is the standard, leading to clear succession planning.
• Ensure Annual Yearly Progress meetings and execute programs to conform academic success.
• Establish policies as per Nursery’s performance management, succession planning, and staffing requirements.
• Review and update nursery policies and procedures every year and keep them updated as per the international child rights policies and the Omani Laws.
• Arrange expenditures and budgets with Nursery Finance to satisfy financial obligations.
• Encourage nurseries in the community and foster relationships within the surrounding private and public nurseries.
• Attend different levels of meetings and represent the nursery in front of the Omani Government and public sector representatives.
• Create, manage, and ensure attractive, organized, functional, healthy, and safe facilities giving attention to the different age groups and to the Omani and International cultures.
• Maintain a safe, calm, and well-ordered environment for all students and staff, focused on safeguarding students and developing their exemplary behaviour in the nursery and the wider society.
• Establish strict, fair, and transparent systems and measures for assessing the performance of all staff, addressing any under-performance, supporting staff to improve, and valuing excellent practice.
• Work with other nurseries and organizations - in a climate of mutual challenge - to champion best practices and secure excellent achievements for all students.
• Ensure the procedures of health, safety, environment, and welfare of students, parents, and staff members within the nursery premises.
• Establish procedures and regular drills trainings for emergencies and disasters.
• Distribute leadership throughout the organization, creating teams of colleagues who have specific roles and responsibilities and hold each other accountable for their decision-making.
• Ensure that the resources are efficiently and effectively used to achieve the nursery’s aims and objectives and for the day-to-day management
• Lead the nursery’s representation in the community and the educational associations on domestic and international levels to communicate the nursery’s well-being and accomplishments.
• Support nursery start-up activities like presentations, orientations, open days, social media advertisements, marketing campaigns, staff induction programs, and all levels of preparations.
• Secures the commitment of the wider community to the nursery by developing and maintaining effective relations and partnerships with, for example, neighbouring nursery’s, other services and agencies for children, higher education institutions, governmental authorities, and employers.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to ensure the proper communication and the utmost level of communication and satisfaction of parents.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to create efficient marketing plans for the nursery and to enhance proper communication with the community.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to collect detailed information about the number of students and prepare a proper plan for the number of needed academic staff members.
• Liaise with the Human Resources Department to assure recruiting the needed number of staff, and avoid being overstaffed or short-staffed.
• Liaise with the Human Resources Department to assure Creating an environment where all staff are motivated and supported to develop their skills and subject knowledge and to support each other.
• Head the academic role of the recruitment committee, assess the new applicants, and report to the Human Resources Department regarding the proper potential applicants.
• Liaise with the Human Resources department to prepare proper yearly CPD plans for the academic team.
• Assure proper communication between all departments of the nursery.
• Arrange weekly, monthly, and termly meetings with the nursery SLT members, to assure the implementation of the year’s target and the nursery’s development plan.
• Review, assess, and update the nursery vision and mission as per the regulations and standards of the international nurseries and the Omani Ministry of Social Development.
• Liaise with the events coordinator to plan, prepare and organize trips, events, and different levels of activities within the nursery or domestic and international communities.
• Keep updated with the rules, policies, procedures, requirements, and instructions of the Ministry of Social Development and the international curriculums followed by the nursery.
• Seek international and governmental accreditations for the nursery, and ensure preparations of the international standards required for accreditations.
• Oversee nursery activities to ensure educational goals and outcomes’ fulfilment.
• Support the accreditation process with the growth of the new nursery.
• Offer consistent and compassionate customer service to students, parents, and referral sources.

• Promote a secure foundation to achieve high standards in all areas of the nursery’s work.
• Develop programs for enabling nursery students and families to meet academic goals.
• Hold clear values and goals to ensure providing a world-class education for all year groups at the nursery.
• Maintain strong governance and actively support the governing board to understand its role and deliver its functions effectively; in particular, its functions to set nursery strategies, goals, development plans, expansions, and projects and hold the Head Teacher to account for students, staff, and financial performance.
• Maintain high-quality education by efficient management of teaching and learning and using student-cantered learning to realize the potential of all students.
• Maintain optimistic behaviour, positive relationships, and attitudes towards students and staff, and towards parents, government officials, and members of the local and international community.
• Promote a culture that maintains excellence, equality, and high expectations of all students.
• provide vision, leadership, and direction for the nursery academic team, students and parents and ensure that the nursery is managed and organized to meet its aims, targets, vision, and mission.
• Ensure the top level of professional representation of the nursery mission, vision, values, accomplishments, and goals in front of the students and staff, and towards parents, government officials and members of the local and international community.
• Lead integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity, with adherence to the policies, regulations, and instructions of the company, the nursery, the Omani Ministry of Social Development, and the International Education Standards.
• Maintain wide knowledge and understanding of education and nursery systems locally, nationally and globally, and pursue continuous development of the nursery and the academic team.
• Work with strategic and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles cantered on the nursery’s vision, mission, and marketing and development plans.
• Inspire and influence others - within and beyond the nursery - to believe in the fundamental importance of education in young people’s lives and to promote the value of education and how the nursery vision and mission fit with these values.
• Implement ambitious standards for all students through enhancing and assuring a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on students’ outcomes and yearly improvement plans.
• Ensure that the nursery’s systems, organization, policies, procedures, and processes are well structured, efficient, and fit for purpose, keeping the principles of transparency, integrity, and probity.
• Evaluate the nursery’s performance to identify the priorities for continuous improvement and raising standards; ensuring equality of opportunity for all and keeping the nursery’s growth, improvement, and enhanced students’ performance as a main priority.
• Secure an excellent level of education through an analytical understanding of how students learn and of the core methodologies of successful classroom practice and curriculum design, leading to rich curriculum opportunities and pupils’ outstanding results.
• Spot all emerging challenges, coach and aspire current leaders in a climate where excellence is the standard, leading to clear succession planning.
• Ensure Annual Yearly Progress meetings and execute programs to conform academic success.
• Establish policies as per Nursery’s performance management, succession planning, and staffing requirements.
• Review and update nursery policies and procedures every year and keep them updated as per the international child rights policies and the Omani Laws.
• Arrange expenditures and budgets with Nursery Finance to satisfy financial obligations.
• Encourage nurseries in the community and foster relationships within the surrounding private and public nurseries.
• Attend different levels of meetings and represent the nursery in front of the Omani Government and public sector representatives.
• Create, manage, and ensure attractive, organized, functional, healthy, and safe facilities giving attention to the different age groups and to the Omani and International cultures.
• Maintain a safe, calm, and well-ordered environment for all students and staff, focused on safeguarding students and developing their exemplary behaviour in the nursery and the wider society.
• Establish strict, fair, and transparent systems and measures for assessing the performance of all staff, addressing any under-performance, supporting staff to improve, and valuing excellent practice.
• Work with other nurseries and organizations - in a climate of mutual challenge - to champion best practices and secure excellent achievements for all students.
• Ensure the procedures of health, safety, environment, and welfare of students, parents, and staff members within the nursery premises.
• Establish procedures and regular drills trainings for emergencies and disasters.
• Distribute leadership throughout the organization, creating teams of colleagues who have specific roles and responsibilities and hold each other accountable for their decision-making.
• Ensure that the resources are efficiently and effectively used to achieve the nursery’s aims and objectives and for the day-to-day management
• Lead the nursery’s representation in the community and the educational associations on domestic and international levels to communicate the nursery’s well-being and accomplishments.
• Support nursery start-up activities like presentations, orientations, open days, social media advertisements, marketing campaigns, staff induction programs, and all levels of preparations.
• Secures the commitment of the wider community to the nursery by developing and maintaining effective relations and partnerships with, for example, neighbouring nursery’s, other services and agencies for children, higher education institutions, governmental authorities, and employers.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to ensure the proper communication and the utmost level of communication and satisfaction of parents.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to create efficient marketing plans for the nursery and to enhance proper communication with the community.
• Liaise with the nursery Administration Department to collect detailed information about the number of students and prepare a proper plan for the number of needed academic staff members.
• Liaise with the Human Resources Department to assure recruiting the needed number of staff, and avoid being overstaffed or short-staffed.
• Liaise with the Human Resources Department to assure Creating an environment where all staff are motivated and supported to develop their skills and subject knowledge and to support each other.
• Head the academic role of the recruitment committee, assess the new applicants, and report to the Human Resources Department regarding the proper potential applicants.
• Liaise with the Human Resources department to prepare proper yearly CPD plans for the academic team.
• Assure proper communication between all departments of the nursery.
• Arrange weekly, monthly, and termly meetings with the nursery SLT members, to assure the implementation of the year’s target and the nursery’s development plan.
• Review, assess, and update the nursery vision and mission as per the regulations and standards of the international nurseries and the Omani Ministry of Social Development.
• Liaise with the events coordinator to plan, prepare and organize trips, events, and different levels of activities within the nursery or domestic and international communities.
• Keep updated with the rules, policies, procedures, requirements, and instructions of the Ministry of Social Development and the international curriculums followed by the nursery.
• Seek international and governmental accreditations for the nursery, and ensure preparations of the international standards required for accreditations.
• Oversee nursery activities to ensure educational goals and outcomes’ fulfilment.
• Support the accreditation process with the growth of the new nursery.
• Offer consistent and compassionate customer service to students, parents, and referral sources