Academic Head- Crawford International

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa ADvTECH Full time

This position forms part of the national brand office support structure for the schools in the brand group and works in alignment with the academic strategy for the Group that is under the custodianship of the Central Academic Team (CAT). This position therefore has a matrix accountability function - being responsible directly to the brand management as well as having an accountability responsibility to the Group Academic Head in CAT.

This is a professional leadership position, the incumbent will need to exercise influence and authority over schools and their teams to deliver on the academic strategy of the group and the brand.

**Key Areas of**

**Responsibility Include**:

- **Alignment of brand academic strategy with Group strategy and focus on brand differentiation**:

- Leading review and development of the brand academic strategy in consultation with the Central Academic Team and brand management
- Working with schools’ leadership to align brand value propositions with the academic strategy.
- Communicating and monitoring performance goals against the strategy.
- Definition and development of the tactics, goals, and processes to achieve that strategy.
- Oversight of brand implementation against strategy.
- Development and oversight of professional development and associated activities to improve brand performance.
- Budget and cost management - Develop and manage the academics function budget.
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Academic performance benchmarking and improvement**:

- Driving data literacy in the schools by communication of findings and collaborative agreement with school management of improvement strategies.
- Monitoring implementation of the performance improvement strategies at brand level.
- Develop a strategic and tactical plan to drive academic excellence for all phases in the brand
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Teaching and Learning**:

- Working with the central team to develop school competency in the brand for the implementation of progressive teaching and learning methodologies and technologies.
- Oversight and leadership of implementation and impact monitoring of agreed strategies.
- Oversight of implementation of the framework for the use of ICT in teaching and learning
- Oversight of implementation of appropriate technologies to support learning and teaching in the brand.
- Oversight of the brand adoption of learning management systems as next phase of blended learning.
- Ensure and assure development of teacher skills in brand schools.
- **
Curriculum alignment and monitoring**:

- Ensure brand implementation of the appropriate differentiation and standardisation projects that will enable common assessments and benchmarking including but not limited to timetable efficiencies and models.
- Oversee implementation of scope and sequence project in brand schools.
- Identify and support projects to share best practise and learning material.
- Support the running of brand differentiated curricula where appropriate.
- **
School effectiveness and efficiencies**:

- Collaborative work to ensure effective and efficient staffing and other resource models for schools in the brand aligned with impact assessments and group standards.
- Ensure school compliance with the requirements of national and provincial requirements in the academic space.
- Identify and promote implementation of common resources where suitable between the schools in the brand and with other brands - making use of both traditional and digital platforms.
- Ensure that brand represented on all matters related to the student information system insofar as related to academic matters. Coordinate input and manage compliance.
- **
Innovation**:

- Evaluate trends and products to identify those with the potential for impact on teaching and learning and work with CAT to implement and adopt where appropriate.
- Monitor and evaluate impact and adoption.
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Differentiation (brand and divisional)**:

- Ensure inclusion of brand differentiators as well as compliance in terms of global competencies and RDI
- Develop and implement programmes/ competitions/ other differentiators in the academic space in collaboration with CAT.
- Development of the brand academic strategy and policy to drive the delivery of our value proposition, i.e. Academic pillars aligned to IB and IEB requirements.
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Data driven decision making**:

- Ensure brand compliance with common assessments as standardised assessments across schools.
- Develop robust and relevant measurement mechanism and process to ensure that the quality of the academic delivery is in line with the Academic excellence target of the Brand.
- Use benchmark testing data to compare and develop performance and align performance goals and strategies.
- Embed a goal-oriented approach to results including deliberate use of data from Jumptrak baseline and benchmarking, ACER IEB, and grade 12 final results.
- Implement the timetabling and load management strategy of the Group and contribute to its refinement
- Drive use of KITSO and other dat

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