JOB TITLE: Headmistress

DEPARTMENT : Podar Jumbo Kids

LOCATION : Podar International School

REPORTING 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Child safety management:  

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

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 festivals through the year.

· 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.

· Developing new age appropriate activities (in consultation with the centre manager and academic consultant) that engage children in a playful manner.

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

· Discussing teacher and helper performance with the centre manager and giving feedback to each of them along with centre manager.

· 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 .

Teaching aids/Display management:

· Conducting workshop for teachers & training them on teachings aids & flannel board display 

· Ensuring teaching aids are created in a timely manner and 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 letter to parents outlining activities conducted during the previous month

· Interacting with existing parents on a daily basis

· Supporting the centre manager for organizing orientation programmes for parents of new daycare and playschool batches

· Coordinating the open house along with the centre manager

· 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.

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. 

Interested candidates please share their resumes on hrd.rohit1@podar.org