Head of Department: Afrikaans

**At Curro,**we care.**:
**Head of Department: Afrikaans**:
**HeronBridge**

**Vacancy Reference: 26692**:
Join Curro's leadership team and be a catalyst for change. We're seeking forward-thinking leaders to ensure our learners receive the best academics and grow into well-rounded individuals. Lead with us and prepare our learners for success

**What are we looking for?**
We are looking for someone with the following experience, qualifications and /or skillsets:
Curro Holdings is a JSE-listed independent schooling provider that offers quality education from the early childhood development phase to Grade 12. Curro prides itself on providing an ethical, values-based environment and offers learner-centric, balanced, innovative and relevant curricula across schools.

**Curro Holdings seeks to appoint a Head of Department: Afrikaans (full-time) at HeronBridge College in Fourways to commence duties in May 2026**

**Key Responsibilities & Performance Areas**:
**Curriculum Leadership & Administration**

- Align and update curriculum policies with IEB and Curro standards
- Manage curriculum planning for all grades and assessment cycles
- Provide guidance on curriculum sequencing, concept delivery, and curriculum challenges
- Select and manage resources, textbooks, and budgets as per departmental needs

**Academic Standards & Departmental Management**

- Manage consistent recording of learner portfolios and departmental systems
- Lead departmental compliance for assessments and reporting

**Team Management & Mentoring**

- Mentor and manage teachers, facilitating their growth and upskilling
- Address staff discipline in consultation with academic leadership
- Deliver pastoral support and mediate intra-department issues
- Oversee teacher planning, classroom management, and delivery of extra academic lessons
- Monitor teacher and pupil progress, implementing interventions as required
- Conduct class visits and feedback sessions to sustain teaching excellence
- Institute academic registers, extra lessons, policy/process adherence

**Extra-Curricular Coordination**

- Manage extra lesson programmes and nominate pupils for awards based on achievement
- Maintain effective parent and community communications

**Reporting & Meetings**

- Compile and analyse termly grade results; report to Academic Head with recommendations
- Ensure accuracy of term reports, feedback, and personalised comments
- Moderate assessments across schools and share best practices within Curro

**Teaching Responsibilities**

- Teach assigned classes using innovative, interactive lessons
- Track attendance, manage homework and assessment schedules
- Prepare marking, feedback, and remedial interventions for learners needing support
- Uphold discipline and foster positive learner attitudes
- Offer extra lessons, remedial support, and individual tutoring as needed

**Extramural Duties**

- Organise and attend extramural activities, practices, fixtures, outings, grade, and phase meetings
- Maintain attendance registers for all activities

**Professional Conduct**:

- Demonstrate excellent organisation, teamwork, and interpersonal skills
- Respond to school communications within 24 hours
- Uphold punctuality, professionalism, and the Christian ethos and values of the school

**Qualifications and experience**

- 3-5 years as Department/Subject Matter Head, teaching a variety of grades including Matrics
- Knowledge of the IEB curriculum
- Proven facilitation, problem-solving and report-writing skills
- Excellent communication, organisational and planning skills
- Willing and able to work extended hours and weekends
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- SACE-registered
- Clear criminal record

**Closing date**: 05 December 2025

If you have not had any feedback from the school within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, accept that you were not successful for this position.
But don’t be dismayed, next time it might be you.
Curro reserves the right not to make an appointment.