JOB DESCRIPTION
VICE PRINCIPALThe successful candidate will work within the agreed Terms and Conditions of Service for Vice-Principals.The Vice-Principal will be required to deputise for the Principal when necessary and take an active part in all aspects of school life. The Vice-Principal’s duties will include promoting and developing the school’s integrated ethos and supporting the Principal in ensuring the school’s ethos, vision and values are upheld, clearly understood, inclusive of all stakeholders and relevant to the pupils in our care. In addition to a full-time teaching commitment and membership of the School Leadership Team, the Vice-Principal’s duties will include:1.Leading, inspiring, and raising standards in pupil outcomes by modelling high-quality learning and teaching and contribute to effective monitoring and evaluating.2.Assisting the Principal in all areas of leading learning and teaching, school administration, management and organisation, and contributing to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of school policies. 3.Assisting the Principal with School Development Planning, School Evaluation, Self-Evaluations, Staff Development, training and capacity building. Assisting the Principal in providing reports/reporting to the Board of Governors on whole school development, as may be required, from time to time.4.Curriculum Co-ordination including overseeing the development and delivery of the curriculum across the Key Stages and co-ordinating a key stage or subject area (if required).5.Assisting the Principal in co-ordinating curriculum development, including planning, benchmarking, target setting, PRSD, monitoring the quality of provision and delivering and monitoring targeted pupil intervention programmes with a view to ensuring all pupils have the best opportunity to achieve their potential. 6.Assessment co-ordinator for the school.7.Assisting the Principal in the promotion of positive behaviour, assertive discipline and addressing bullying type behaviour.8.Serving as a member of the Safeguarding Team, holding the role of Deputy Designated Teacher for Child Protection, and overseeing risk assessments related to pastoral care and the safeguarding of pupils.9.Acting as line manager for classroom assistants (as required).10.Assisting the Principal with financial administration, including budget planning, projections, allocations, monitoring expenditure and reconciliations. 11.Responsibility for creating and monitoring timetables, rotas and calendars. 12.Maintaining, developing and promoting formal and informal links with parents/carers, including participation in relevant committees/associations.13.Assist the Principal in organising major school events.14.Responsibility for extra-curricular activities.15.Assisting with lunch time cover.16.Undertaking such other duties as the Principal may require.This job description may be amended at any time after discussion with the Principal. A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate relevant experience, knowledge and skills associated with the following key areas.Shaping the Future
1. Keep abreast of and anticipate educational trends;
2. Think strategically to build and communicate a shared coherent vision;
3. Create an ethos and provide direction, which promotes a culture of high expectation, successful learning and achievement;
4. Inspire, challenge, motivate and empower others to carry the vision and ethos forward;
5. Model the values and ethos of the school.
Leading and Managing Staff
6. Provide high quality leadership to secure improvement;
7. Collaborate and network with others within and beyond the school;
8. Foster a culture of shared/ distributed leadership;
9. Develop, empower and sustain individuals and teams;
10. Support the development of an open, fair, equitable culture and manage conflict effectively;
11. Support and challenge performance in order to raise standards;
12. Work with others to lead professional development for all staff within the context of the school’s development plan in order to support effective teaching and learning.
Leading Learning and Teaching
13. Cultivate enthusiasm for and commitment to the learning process.
14. Lead and manage the development of an effective learning and teaching culture.
15. Lead and manage the self-evaluation process; work with staff and others to analyse a range of data, interpret outcomes and plan for improvement.
16. Ensure effective implementation of the NI Curriculum, share good practice and work with others to challenge and address pupil under-achievement.
Developing the School in the Community
17. Lead and manage the development and promotion of a positive image of the school within the local community and beyond;
18. Develop and maintain strong and effective relationships with parents and the local and wider community;
19. Ensure effective channels of communication are in place between the school and the local and wider community;
20. Listen to, reflect and act on community feedback;
21. Recognise and lead others to ensure that strategic planning takes account of the richness and diversity of the school’s communities and community feedback;
22. Work closely with other relevant statutory and voluntary agencies to enhance the education of all pupils.
Managing the Organisation
23. Prioritise, plan and organise themselves and others;
24. Think creatively to anticipate and solve problems;
25. Make sound decisions based on a range of informed judgments;
26. Establish and maintain appropriate structures and systems;
27. Lead and manage the development and implementation of the School Development Plan;
28. Delegate tasks and monitor their implementation;
29. Manage resources efficiently and effectively: human, physical and financial.
Ensuring Accountability
30. Create and develop a culture in which all Governors and staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school;
31. Combine the outcomes of regular self-evaluation, ETI inspection evidence and other external evaluations in order to develop the school;
32. Lead and manage the process of monitoring and evaluating effectively school outcomes, policies and procedures;
33. Work with the leadership team and others to recognise and disseminate effective practice and challenge and address unacceptable performance;
34. Work closely with and provide effective reports to Governors on the school’s progress and development.
Conditions of ServiceThe conditions of service for this post will be in accordance with the Regulations of the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.