JOB ADVERT
Title: School
Manager
Organization:
Prestige Day Care and Pre -School
Duty
station: Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania.
Duration:
Two years contract
with possible extension upon satisfactory performance.
Background
Prestige Day Care and Pre –School is a large
organization with more than one hundred children with plans to expand into an
even larger facility.
Purpose of Position
1
To manage the day
to day running of the Day Care
and Pre -School to include
co-ordinating the provision of a caring, safe, secure and stimulating
environment, meeting the requirements of the school and government of Tanzania
policy.
2
To plan a range
of activities based on observation and assessment cycle for children/pupils.
3
Managing a staff
team, working with management committee to ensure policies and procedures are
implemented at all times.
4
Fulfilling duties
as the Safeguarding Designated person for the school to promote the
safeguarding and welfare of the children, staff and parents/guardians.
5
Ensuring
accelerated social growth of children.
Key Areas
o
Work with
Children
o
To lead the
planning of safe, creative and appropriate opportunities.
o
Liaise with
Parents/guardians.
o
Lead
subordinates.
Hours of Work
Monday to Friday, 7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Responsible to:
The school directors.
Duties and Responsibilities
1.
To ensure that
staff comply at all times with day care and pre-school policies, procedures and
standards, including health and safety, hygiene, inclusion, and confidentiality.
2.
To liaise with
parents/carers to ensure that particular needs of children are met
3.
To lead the
planning of safe, creative and appropriate opportunities according to
children’s needs and interests to fulfil the requirements of the school and
adherence to the countries policies with regard to running such entities.
4.
To develop and
maintain good relationships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate
meeting the needs of each child, including organising meetings to update and
involve parent/carers in their child’s learning.
5.
To co-ordinate
and chair staff meetings.
6.
To manage
staffing levels with required ratios.
7.
To maintain
effective personnel systems and ensure that files are kept up to date.
8.
To actively
promote and facilitate relevant staff training and development opportunities.
9.
To actively
promote the day care and pre-school to ensure that vacant places are filled,
and that services are marketed and advertised so that the day care and pre-school
runs to full capacity.
10.
To induct,
supervise and contribute to performance management of staff according to policies
and procedures.
11.
Working
creatively with children within the education framework, in order to provide an
enabling learning environment for all children.
12.
Ensuring all
children have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
13.
Liaising with the
school directors to share information and agree course of action for all major
decisions with regard to the running of the school.
14.
Liaising with
advisory and support staff in the development and improvement of the day care
and preschool setting.
15.
To act in
accordance with current legislation, policy and procedures of the country.
16.
Leading the
organisation of the availability and use of general and specialist play
equipment and other resources, ensuring that they are clean, safe and secure.
Carrying out risk assessments on a regular basis.
17.
Ensuring that
Health and Safety policies are implemented.
18.
Work requires
bending, kneeling and crouching for periods of time and may also involve
lifting or holding children during planned activities, and changing nappies/toileting
duties; being ready to lead this process by example to subordinates.
19.
Promoting
positive values, attitudes and good child behaviour, dealing promptly with
conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encouraging children
to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
20.
Providing
objective and accurate feedback and reports as required on child achievement
progress to the school directors.
21.
Contributing to
the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
22.
To actively
promote and support the safeguarding of children and young people in the
workplace, ensuring that all staff and volunteers observe setting policies and
procedures to keep children safe from harm.
Day Care and Pre - School
Manager – Person Specification:
Essentials
Skills, aptitude, knowledge and experience
o
Considerable,
proven experience of working within a childcare setting.
o
Experience of
working with the Early Years Foundation Stage and other relevant learning
programmes/strategies eg contributing towards individual education plans.
o
Proven ability to
lead action planning sessions.
o
Proven ability to
take key decisions independently.
o
Understanding and
recognition of the principles of equality and diversity.
o
Knowledge of
child development and learning processes with reference to particular barriers
to learning.
o
Proven and
successful experience of working with children of relevant age in an early
learning environment.
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o
Experience of
working as part of a team.
o
Experience of
working with other agencies and professionals.
o
Ability to plan
effective learning and care programmes.
o
Ability to lead
the effective planning of learning.
o
Ability to work
independently using own initiative.
o
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and
actively seek learning opportunities.
o
Ability to
relate well to children and adults including other
professionals/carers/parents.
o
Ability to set,
demonstrate and promote good practice in line with the ethos of the school
both indoors and outdoors.
o
Ability to
manage multiple tasks, whilst ensuring children, colleagues, parents and
carers are respected and listened to.
o
Consistent
approach with children and parents.
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o
Experience of
having kept written records of children’s achievements including observations
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Personal qualities
o
Ability to
promote and market the service to the wider community.
o
Fluent English
and Swahili speaker.
o
Effectively
communicate with adults and children.
o
Enthusiasm for
learning and working with children.
o
Reflective
approach and commitment to personal development.
o
Able to provide
consistently high levels of quality care and education opportunities to all
children.
o
Caring,
friendly, approachable, open, inclusive, welcoming, and personable
o
Able to
maintain confidentiality at all times.
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o
Excellent
leadership skills
Desirable
o
Experience of
supervising placements
o
Plan and lead the
maintenance and upkeep of resources in the setting
o
Awareness of
developing technologies and their place in the learning environment
o
Ability to ensure
the learning and care environment is accessible for all children and parents
o
Contribute ideas
at school meetings for developing the early year’s provision; this may include
policy writing and the school development plan.
o
Knowledge and
understanding of the type of external support that is available to support
children’s development and how to access these services.
o
Ability to
interact with children and support their involvement in physical activities and
outdoor play.
o
Ability to action
plan and respond to local and national initiatives.
o
Ability to set
ethos and vision for the setting and ensure all personnel adhere to it
o
Ability to
effectively use ICT to support learning or to undertake training to do so
o
Ability to use
other technology to support learning e.g. video, photocopier, etc.
Qualifications
o
Completion of
training in early childhood development recognised full and relevant at degree
or masters level from a well recognized institution.
o
Excellent
experience in curriculum development and implementation
o
Full working
knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant
legislation of Tanzania government.
o
Understanding of
principles of child development and learning processes and in particular
barriers to learning.
o
Knowledge and/or
experience of other forms of communicating with children.
o
Ten (10) years
experience in the management position of day care and preschool with proven
record of changes and growth of the school experienced.
o
Basic skills in
financial management.
o
Computer literacy
especially Microsoft excel.
APPLY ONLINE THROUGH
Email: info@prestigepreschool.sc.tz
Remuneration:
An attractive package will be offered to the right
candidate.
Application: Send your CV through
this email address: info@prestigepreschool.sc.tz
Application Deadline: 30th June
2017
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