Student Supervisor - (Pastoral Care) Aldar Academies

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi s leading school group. The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Front of house for the Pastoral Team.
• Effective, sensitive and personable communication skills with students, parents and staff. Communication may be in written form, e-mail, via phone or in person.
• Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships by developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time
• Support of reception staff and attendance officer in regards to students whereabouts.
• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students.

Use of Internal Systems

• Have an awareness of school wide systems that impact the Pastoral Team. e.g. Reporting, Assemblies, Admissions, Clinic, Heads of Department.
• Play an active role working with the Pastoral Team to plan, implement and improve both internal or external systems or processes by thinking logically, creatively and collaboratively. e.g. attendance, punctuality, starters and leavers, lockers.
• Managing the calendars of the Assistant Principal, Heads of Year and Heads of Key Stage.

Managing the planning, organising and scheduling of events.

• Working closely with relevant Assistant Principal, Heads of Year, Heads of Key Stage as well as working with admissions, housekeeping, IT and external providers if required. e.g. GCSE Open Evening, Information Evenings, Annual Awards, Assemblies and reward parties.
• Keeping abreast of internal events and identifying and managing clashes of venues / year groups and times.

Data

• Ensuring all pastoral information and data is: accurate, timely, approved, reliable, clear and fit for purpose. E.g. attendance, punctuality, internal interventions and rewards
• Maintenance of robust and accurate data / records and monitoring specific legal and organisational systems within school as appropriate.

Other Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively, sensitively, responsibly with line managers, colleagues, students, and customers / parents by providing information by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person which is accurate, timely and concise
• Establish and Maintain Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time
• To participate in the school s community activities.

Follow up on attendance

• To provide administrative support to the Heads of Pastoral Primary in accordance with school policy and procedures. For example, written correspondence and telephone calls to parents; dealing with messages and enquiries; maintaining records; producing reports/ spreadsheets.
• To provide administrative support for school pastoral systems relating to Reflections, uniform, attendance, home-school agreements, leave of absence forms.
• To act as an interpreter at parent-student meetings, as required.
• To translate key written correspondence from English to Arabic, or vice versa;
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• POC for organisation of ECA,s, Trips, activities and Events between students, parents, teachers and Authorities.
• Main point of contact of the trips and visits organiser at school level.
• Any duties as required by the line manager