AHT: Data, Assessment & Digital Learning

Raha International School, Gardens Campus

Job Purpose:

Maintain clear policies on assessment practices and ensure they are standarised and understood at all levels

Ensure student assessment systems are robust, reliable and valid. That they can be used to inform future planning, used to track student progress, used to track staff performance and used to inform parents how well their children are performing

Strategic lead for contruction of the timetable, for each cycle

Implement a strategy for improving student attainment and progress

Lead middle leaders (whole campus) in understanding and utilizing the assessment system for the purposes above and for external inspection purposes

Liaise with IT staff over fully utilizing our Data Management System (iSams) and Toddle

Support the process of the reporting of performance data to parents

Ensure that all external examinations, tests and surveys are administered efficiently and effectively (in liaison with curriculum co-ordinators as appropriate)

Support staff in the analysis and interpretation of relevant data for inspection and accreditation visits

Working with counterparts in other phases over transition of data between phases

Leadership of whole campus digital learning strategy

Engaging with regulatory bodies, external agencies in relation to assessment, data and other areas associated to the role

Key Relationships (Internal and External):

Vice Principal, Senior Leadership Team, Heads of Department, Students and Parents, Teachers and Support Staff (in particular data administration team.

Key Accountabilities:

The responsibilities of each senior leader are role dependent and will be delegated by the Vice Principal/Heads of School. However, the overriding aims of every senior leader are as follows.

• Foster an aspirational school culture and get the best out of teachers and leaders through coaching, delegation, holding them to account and inspiring them to act. Ensure that genuine distributed leadership leads to collective responsibility and accountability.
• Make informed decisions and devise school improvement plans, that are values driven and based on evidence from effective self-evaluation. Recognise opportunities and threats and manage the complexity of leading in a large international school, in order to successfully lead staff through institutional developments.
• Communicate, build relationships and inspire confidence in all stakeholders, especially young children, from a variety of backgrounds.
• Support the Head of School in leading professional development in Teaching and Leadership across the school, in order to build the capacity for further institutional development. Support the Head of School in recruiting and retaining staff that epitomise the ethos and approaches of the school and the IB.
• Promote the school through public speaking, social media and through building relationships with external organisations.
• Supporting the Head of School to manage the day to day running of the school in order to maximise opportunities for student success.
• Contribute effectively to the appropriate school leadership team and play a wider role in developing leadership across Uptown and Taaleem.
• Lead the safeguarding and pastoral care of students, ensuring that barriers to learning are removed or mitigated for.
• Prepare all personnel, systems and avenues of communication for all external Inspections, evaluation visits and accreditation visits