JOB TITLE: Headmistress

LOCATION: Nashik - Deolali Camp

REPORTING TO

PodarPrep in PIS – Academically to Mentor at Head office  and administratively to Principal

JOB PURPOSE

Devising and using fruitful procurement and sourcing strategies. Discovering profitable suppliers and initiate procurement partnerships. Negotiating with external vendors to secure advantageous terms.

Ensuring maintenance of curriculum and administrative quality standards at the centers with regular teacher supervision and training along with rapport building with parents.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Child safety management:  

·        Ensuring safety of each child at all cost. (In class, toilets, outdoors, bus, field trips)

·        Ensuring zero tolerance policy implementation at the centre

Curriculum planning:  

·        Planning and executing the session curriculum in consultation with the general curriculum of Jumbo Kids which should be planned a month in advance.

·        Responsible for the celebration of all the events through the year.

·        Holding of weekly curriculum meets with teachers as given.

·        Planning and organizing field trips.

Teaching and faculty supervision:

·        Ensuring regular attendance by all teacher and helpers.

·        Monitoring daily performance of teachers and helpers to ensure quality of learning and care is being   provided by each of them in a diligent and personalized manner.

·        Teachers (Leading the session activities while training the Teachers and Assistant teachers to become independent).

·        Ensuring timely intervention to prevent inappropriate conduct by teachers or helpers.

·        Interviewing new teachers to be recruited in the concerned session.

·        Guiding the staff for the work to be done during events & functions.

·        To ensure that hygiene of the toilets are maintained.

·        Timely discussion with staff if they are facing any problem & forwarding it to centre manager.

·        Ensuring timely training is been given to teachers on curriculum, discipline management, classroom teaching etc .

·        Ensuring regular maintenance of the centre

Teaching aids/Display management:

·        Conducting regular training with teachers with the dockets and ppts given by head office.

·        Ensuring teaching aids are properly maintained

·        Ensuring that all the display boards are attractively decorated with expressions of children’s activities

·        Maintaining toys, teaching aids and books in proper condition and raising a requisition for replenishing them as and when required.

Parent teacher interaction:

·        Monthly newsletter as given by head office to parents outlining activities conducted during the previous month

·        Interacting with existing parents on a daily basis

·        Organizing orientation programmes for parents

·        Report writing – ensuring that reports for the children in the concerned session are written as per standards established and given to parents on a regular basis.

·        Planning regular celebration events (Diwali, Children’s day, Kite flying etc.) with parent involvement, in consultation with the centre manager.

·        Sending report to H.O on parental feedback.

·        Filling of google sheets timely as rolled by head office.

·        Ensuring rapport building with parents.

Admissions and marketing:

·        Responsible for admission growth at the centre for PJK

·        Responsible for organizing marketing events in the school and outside for garnering admissions.

·        Responsible for enquiry handling, follow ups and conversion to admissions.

·        Responsible for maintaining the PJK social media pages daily.

PIE:

·        Responsible for admission growth at the centre for PIE

·        Responsible for holding lectures and other related events as given by Head office as per the PIE planner

·        Responsible for enquiry handling, follow ups and conversion to admissions

SKILLS:

-        Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills

·        Strong working knowledge of inventory planning and forecasting techniques.

·        Inquisitive, detail-oriented with strong quantitative analytical skills and innovative approach to problem solving.

·        Good leadership skills; ability to motivate and direct a staff

·        Honesty and integrity.

KEY CUSTOMERS:

Internal/External

·        Children

·        Parents

·        Vendors

·        Accounts/Finance department

·        Human Resource

·        IT

·        Other departments/Principals