Faculty Leader - Arabic

Job description / Role

Responsibilities:

Curriculum:
- Have a thorough understanding of student attainment and progress across the year group
- Keep up-to-date with new teaching and learning strategies and resources (approved) internationally.
- Ensure that the curriculum is implemented thoroughly and effectively and that schemes of work and faculty development plans are maintained and regularly updated.
- Maintain effective communication with the exam officer/external examiners to ensure up to date curriculum and compliance.
- Work with the HOS /Exams officer to manage internal audit/verification processes where appropriate
- Ensure the use of international benchmarks to set challenging targets, monitor student achievement and implement intervention strategies where required
- Ensure that effective formal and informal assessments are appropriately set, moderated and are following the school's assessment and moderation policies. Keep moderation folders up to date.
- Liaise with ACe department and G&T cords to ensure appropriate support and extension is present
- Ensure that there is progression of the subject through the school FS- Year 13 (pathways), where appropriate
- Actively plan and implement options evenings, sixth form applications, booster sessions and student mentoring.

Professional Development
- Ensure that teachers have access to appropriate resources and are targeted for training to support curriculum development and delivery.

Reporting
- Collaboratively develop the SDP. Create, maintain and regularly update an action plan in line with the schools policy on self-evaluation, ensuring that all teachers understand their role within it.
- Maintain thorough records in terms of student subject punctuality and attendance, teacher performance management.
- Report on faculty progress against SDP and targets to SLT regularly throughout the year
- Ensure that student performance data is shared with the appropriate group of people, i.e. new students entrance test data and data at the point of transition
- Oversee faculty members use of the GLG

Requirements

Other
- Promote excellent teamwork and collaboration, developing highly effective working relationships; provide guidance, support and motivation.
- Follow and support all school aims, policies and practices including Teaching and Learning Policy,Behaviour Policy, Marking and Reporting Policy and Assessment Policy as well as the non-negotiables.
- Develop and maintain subject specific policy where required.
- Be responsible for managing the annual faculty budget in collaboration with the SLT and Finance Committee. Work with the HOS to develop exam fee structure.
- Support the HoS with departmental staff recruitment when required.
- Support teachers within the department in terms of student behaviours and pastoral care, liaising with the HoS, PL, LM or parents, where appropriate.
- Contribute to extracurricular activities Inter-House competitions, intra and inter school events, educational visits, performances, parent consultations, prize-day, charity drives and other student events.
- Check all reports before each release date
- Report any health and safety concerns to the Manager School Operations
- Undertake other professional duties as reasonably delegated by the ExecSLT/PL (break duties, exam invigilation, detention and cover, after-school duty, Support/Activity classes, exam marking, MoE formalities etc.)
- Any additional responsibilities as assigned by the Principal

About the Company

GEMS Education is a pioneering education company with an international network of award winning K-12 schools. Over the past 55 years GEMS has grown from one school to being a truly global company with one incredible mission – to make quality education available to every student. Over 20,000 education professionals unlock the potential of over 250,000 students across 14 countries each and every day, preparing children of all ages for real world success.