Executive Head of School

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa ADvTECH 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.

**Overall Job Purpose**

To execute the Brand strategy by providing leadership and guidance to the academic and support staff across three schools (Pre primary, Primary and High) to drive both commercial and academic success.

**Brand**
- Pinnacle College Linden

**Phase / Department**

Pre-Primary, Preparatory and College

**Job Title**

Executive Head

**Line Manager**

COO

**Location**

Linden

**Responsibilities**:
**Output 1 - 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 KPI’s and makes informed decisions on shifting the levers that are key inputs into these measures in order to achieve targets.e.g. Paycost Ratios, EBIT
- Supervises the effective management of the continuous debt collecting 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

**Output 2 -** 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. E.g. Summer School, Winter School etc.

**Output 3 -** Human Capital Management**:

- Leads and guides the school leadership teams by creating alignment across all schools in all areas, with a specific focus on the brand message
- Ensures that academic and support staff roles and responsibilities are clarified and performance objectives are set
- Manages and conducts performance reviews in accordance with policies and procedures and takes corrective action where necessary. Provides continuous feedback to leadership teams
- Ensures that a management succession plan is implemented with focused development driven for identified individuals
- Builds a pro-active environment where the academic and support staff can take responsibility for results
- Leads the Growth Culture by example and drives the establishment of this by targeting staff growth - both teachers and leaders
- Manage strategic Human Resources in accordance with policies, procedures and legal requirements
- Monitors staff labour turnover across the campus, unpacking reasons for leaving and ensuring issues are resolved appropriately
- Ensures that Employment Equity targets are achieved

**Output 4 **-** 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
- Forecasts registration targets for new students and academic staff as well as for roll-over students and actively involves oneself in all open days
- Engages in word-of-mouth marketing
- Coordinates all communications to the customer to ensure one voice, one message and one tone is delivered
- Monitors the NPS score to understand the trends and creates plans to resolve issues outlined by parents and students in collaboration with the Marketing team and the schools’ leadership teams
- Liaises directly with parents in appropriate fora to support the Principal and create brand awareness. Contributes to regular parent newsletters as an opportunity to drive the brand culture
- Oversees the registration process and the graduation process, ensuring they are aligned to the unique selling proposition of the brand
- Ensures that the overall impression of the campus is aligned with the brand promise and that the customers (parents and students) understand this
- Monitors student retention / exits, completes diagnoses to unpack reasons for leaving and creates plans to address these issues

**Output **5 - **Facilities Management**:

- Effectively allocate resources

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