School Educational Manager
Job Description
- Lead the overall academic function, ensuring alignment with the school's strategic objectives and student outcomes.
- Develop and oversee the annual academic plan covering teaching, learning, assessment, staffing, and improvement priorities.
- Lead the recruitment, onboarding, supervision, and performance management of academic staff, including Teachers, HODs, and the Quality Supervisor / Internal Verifier.
- Establish academic standards, policies, procedures, and performance expectations.
- Take accountability for the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning across the school.
- Monitor teaching quality, student achievement, progression, attendance, and engagement, and lead appropriate improvement actions.
- Ensure effective teaching strategies, learner engagement, differentiation, and appropriate use of learning resources.
- Supervise curriculum implementation, ensuring alignment with qualifications, assessment requirements, industry needs, and career pathways.
- Oversee assessment planning and implementation and ensure assessment evidence is used to improve teaching and student achievement.
- Review academic and assessment data to identify gaps, trends, and improvement priorities.
- Maintain overall accountability for academic quality and compliance, in collaboration with the Quality Supervisor / Internal Verifier.
- Ensure academic processes and practices meet institutional, qualification, and accreditation requirements.
- Review quality findings and ensure corrective and improvement actions are implemented and followed up.
- Lead academic staff development through coaching, mentoring, observation, feedback, and targeted professional development.
- Build the leadership and academic capabilities of HODs and teaching teams.
- Promote professional accountability, reflective practice, and continuous development.
- Develop and manage strategic industry and academic partnerships that enhance practical learning and student employability.
- Ensure industry requirements and labor-market trends are reflected in curriculum, teaching, assessment, and career preparation.
- Lead industry engagement opportunities such as workplace visits, projects, internships, guest speakers, and industry-led learning.
- Use structured industry feedback and partnership outcomes to drive curriculum review and continuous academic improvement.
- Lead the academic improvement agenda using student performance, quality findings, stakeholder feedback, and industry input.
- Promote innovation in teaching, learning, assessment, and educational practices.
- Lead the effective use of digital systems for academic planning, tracking, assessment, reporting, and decision-making.
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Key Skills
Curriculum implementation
Academic planning
Use of digital systems for academic planning
Assessment planning and implementation
and decision-making
