Executive Head

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa ADvTECH Support Office Full time

Who we are


The ADvTECH Group, founded in 1978 is a JSE-listed company, Africa's largest private education provider and a continental leader in quality education, training, skills development, and placement services.


The Group reports its performance in a segmental structure reflecting the Schools and Tertiary as two separate education divisions, and Resourcing as the third division.

ADvTECH's Schools division comprises 9 brands with more than 109 schools across South Africa and the rest of Africa, including Gaborone International School in Botswana, and The Makini Group of Schools and Crawford International in Kenya.


Our Purpose


We aim to GROW a reputation for our ability to make a real difference to the people we serve, for our connectedness and partnerships with African and global markets and players, for the relevance, quality and usefulness of our offerings, and for the enterprising and agile way in which we tackle our task.

We will ACHIEVE this by focusing on our customers and taking a lead from our markets, by our innovative approach, especially in harnessing the power of technology, and by striving for excellence and sustainability in all we do

  • We invite qualified, progressive and passionate people to join our team. Individuals who are relentless in pursuing excellence, who present themselves with energy and vigour, and who are dissatisfied with the status quo will find a career home with us at ADvTECH. _
  • We are currently recruiting for leadership positions within our school's division. Executive Heads with solid commercial competence and a passion for Teaching & Learning will find homes within our school brands._

_To view all our brands, click on the link below :_

Brand
Opportunities exist in all brands

Phase / Department
Pre-Primary, Preparatory and College

Job Title
Executive Head

Line Manager
Managing Director

Location
Johannesburg
- **Key Purpose Statement**Reporting to the Brand Managing Director, the role of the Executive Head is to execute the Brand strategy by providing leadership and guidance to the academic and support staff across three schools (Pre-primary, Prepatory and College) to drive both commercial and academic success.

The incumbent will effectively position their campus for sustainable growth as a preferred supplier of private education to maximise the return on investment for all stakeholders:
students, parents, staff and shareholders.


The Executive Head will lead the resources under their control to provide and engaging and productive teaching and learning environment for students and teachers.

He/she will partner with the central academic team to build and maintain a strong reputation for academic excellence, innovation in pedagogy and an operationally efficient entity.

- **Principal Accountabilities**Management of Campus commercials

  • Compiles the campus preliminary and annual budgets, keeps track of monthly spend and drives an ethos of creating value for the customer by reducing waste.
  • Actively monitors the key financial KPIs and makes informed decisions on shifting the levers that key inputs into these measures to achieve targets. Eg. Paycost ratios, EBIT etc.
  • Supervises the effective management of the continuous debt collection process; including the age analysis of the debt. Enables the Head of Schools to manage the relationship with the parent but is responsible for enforcing suspension of the students where necessary.
  • Signs off all quotes, CAPEX requisitions, cheques and fee credits.
Execution of Academic Strategy

  • Executes the academic policies and procedures for all academic and support staff and drives the effective implementation of new Group and Brand policies.
  • Oversees the timetabling process and ensures that there are sufficient resources (e.g. classrooms, teachers) available to accommodate students.
  • Analyses the academic results across campuses to ensure the quality of the academic offering remains superior. Where issues arise, contribute to the problem solving by driving the development of robust plans to remedy these. Eg. Summer school, winter school etc.
Creating Brand Awareness in the Community

  • Liaises directly with the Brand Marketing and Sales Manager to position the campus as a priority to the brand agenda. Understands the unique brand proposition and ensures all students and staff live this brand on campus.
  • Engages in wordofmouth marketing for the school
  • Identifies media opportunities and leverages school accomplishments for publication in the local press
  • Forecasts registration targets for new students and academic staff as well as for rollover students and actively involves oneself in all open days.
  • Coordinates all communications to the customer to ensure one voice, one message and one tone is delivered.
  • Monitors the Net Promoter Score to understand the trends and creates plans to resolve issues outlined by parents and students in collaboration with the marketin

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