Rosslyn Academy is an established and vibrant Christian international school that serves over 650 students from the missionary, diplomatic, and business communities. The Superintendent (Head of School) provides overall executive, academic, and spiritual leadership to the institution.
Professional Responsibilities
Modeling and Leadership
- Model a personal commitment to Christ and Bible-based Christian living.
- Seek to inspire others to Christian commitment, faith, and living.
- Contribute towards and maintain a positive Christian spiritual environment.
- Exhibit characteristics of being a life-long learner.
- Maintain a positive academic environment focused on growth and excellence.
- Consistently model professionalism.
- Provide leadership that ensures that all activities of the school are congruent with the school vision and mission.
- Annually ensure that short and long range school-wide and professional goals are established at the necessary levels.
- Consistently demonstrate a knowledge and use of effective team-building strategies.
- Consistently use leadership strategies that empower and motivate faculty, students, and parents.
Curriculum
- Ensure that the curriculum fully supports the mission and purpose statements of the school.
- Cooperatively work with the Director of Teaching and Learning and school principals to establish the curriculum development and review process.
- Annually assign leadership to conduct the curriculum review and development process, per the curriculum review schedule.
- Keep the Board of Governors informed of significant curricular revisions.
Supervision
- Ensure that the organizational system with its clearly defined lines of authority and responsibility is consistently upheld throughout the school.
- Ensure that positive personnel practices are used consistently.
- Evaluate the personnel who are under his/her direct supervision according to the organizational flowchart and evaluation policies.
Administrative Duties
- Ensure that Board and Administrative policies/directives are administered fairly and consistently throughout the school.
- Prepare and present a Superintendent’s report for each Board of Governors meeting.
- Evaluate the school’s progress toward its vision, mission, strategic plans, and annual goals and communicate this progress to the Board of Governors.
- Develop, with the appropriate administrators, recommendations for new Board level policies, personnel recommendations and contracts, annual budgets, and development plans in order to subsequently recommend to the Board of Governors.
- Ensure compliance of all school policies and practices with established Board policies, accreditation standards, and Kenyan legal guidelines.
- Provide leadership for continued school growth and accreditation.
- Ensure that viable administrative policies, procedures, and position profiles are maintained and revised.
- Provide for an effective recruitment of, and orientation for, new personnel.
- Ensure the school is staffed with adequate faculty and staff.
- Cooperatively work with administration to develop, maintain and operate a program of in-service training and education for all educational staff.
- Collaborate with the Director of Communications and Admissions to maintain a master calendar, communicating to all necessary constituents the master schedule and special events.
- Oversee and support the Director of Communications and Admissions in promoting the school through strategic marketing, public-relations, and admissions initiatives.
- Provide oversight for the annual budgeting process.
- Responds to abuse, harassment, significant health, and suicide issues as per policy.
Qualifications
- A personal commitment to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
- Exhibit a continuing sense of God’s calling to service at Rosslyn Academy.
- Demonstrate a respect for diversity of culture, religion, and different Christian traditions.
- Demonstrate an appreciation for the diversity of the body of Christ.
- Possess a minimum of a Master’s degree in education from an accredited tertiary body.
- Hold a valid teaching and subsequent administrative certificate from an authorized governmental agency in North America and/or the Association of Christian Schools International.
- Show evidence of recent professional growth.
- Give evidence of previous successful teaching and administrative experience in a North American setting.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of child development, curriculum development and program evaluation, effective instructional strategies, learning assessment and diagnosis, and research related to learning.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing.
- Demonstrate the ability to use technology for word processing, data management and telecommunications.
- Demonstrate a life congruent with the Basic Tenets of Rosslyn Academy.
- Previous international travel and senior administrative experience is preferred.
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