Sharon Childes

Purpose:

To be the educational and operational leader, who through collaboration, directs all efforts towards academic excellence, nurtures all staff and students and builds effective relationships with the parent community. The standards are determined by the Advtech group.

As part of the management team, I was required to;

• Constantly evaluate and re-evaluate needs and to identify strategies, priorities, goals, and targets
• Participate in weekly management meetings
• Prepare for and provide detailed quarterly feedback about the campus to the Brand CEO and Senior Management
• Provide effective leadership to create learning environments enabling learners to realize their maximum potential.
• Manage and lead all staff at the campus, aiming for academic excellence and a happy, safe environment
• Provide educational vision and direction for the staff and ensure effective teaching
• Source staff development and ways to provide parent education
• Performance management of all campus staff
• Lead the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development of students
• Practise sound financial planning and manage budgets and spending for the campus
• Build relationships with the parents and wider community, sharing the vision and direction of the school
• Identify staffing needs and initiate recruitment and selection of staff
• Organise and plan events
• Interview prospective new parents and students
• Strive to grow and improve the school constantly (marketing)
• Compile weekly communication newsletters to parents together with the administrator, Marketing Department and teachers
• Ongoing administration and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the school's academic excellence, philosophies and values by overseeing and monitoring teaching and learning in each JP Class
• Observing teachers' lessons and give feedback for development
• Looking at student work in books in each JP Class from time to time
• Termly planning
• Compile the termly timetables and timetables and calendar
• Coordinate events such as as field trips, assemblies, and parent-teacher conferences, concerts and campus events to promote community involvement.
• Identify opportunities for improving teaching and learning and develop suitable interventions
• Support staff and use each person's skills effectively
• Communicate effectively and with understanding with staff, parents and students
• Performance management.

Responsibilities:

• Create an exciting and effective learning environment
• Implement new initiatives and technology
• Manage, design, implement and provide learning to the Grade 3 class within the agreed curriculum and guidelines, school values, and ethos
• Monitor students' emotional well-being and to help build their self-esteem so that they are motivated to learn
• Accommodate the different learning styles in he classroom
• Promote student engagement through the use of interactive lessons and including tablets, and other multimedia tools in lessons.
• Take part and lead various extra murals
• Coordinate parent-teacher conferences on a termly basis to provide progress reports
• Compile formal progress reports on each student twice a year
• Establish a positive classroom culture by promoting respect, responsibility, and mutual support among students
• Coordinate events such as field trips and assemblies.

Responsibilities:

• Create a learning environment customized to different learning challenges
• Research and manage different learning challenges presented in class in order to best accommodate learning
• Build relationships and manage students' emotional well-being and to help build their self-esteem so that each student can learn to their ability
• Provide special attention to those students who require assistance
• Arrange field trips and events
• Coordinate termly parent-teacher conferences
• Compile termly written progress reports on each student
• Liaise with the Remedial teacher, Occupational, Speech and Physio Therapists regarding certain students.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with schools and to ensure increased customer satisfaction and repeat business
• Provide support between Futurekids and the Principals of the schools contracted to Futurekids in he allocated area
• Visit each contracted school and see the Principal and the computer lab teachers on a bi-monthly basis
• Manage and support Futurekids teachers
• Arrange computer training interventions for teachers and parents at schools
• Market Futurekids products to potential schools.

Responsibilities:

• To research each department and assess what skills are required (skills audit)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop customized training solutions such as, on-the-job training, peer training or training courses
• To arrange training interventions
• To develop training material
• To work with the HR Department Manager for 'soft skills' training.

Responsibilities

• Using technical experience to develop and provide on-the-job training to Stannic and Standard Bank staff
• Visit Stannic branches to ascertain training needs
• Attend train the trainer interventions from outside organizations and from Head Office
• Schedule and arrange training interventions (technical, sales, management and soft skills training)
• Administration regarding training venues for interventions
• Organize training material for trainees.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with existing corporate clients in he allocated area and service their finance applications
• Seek new business by visiting other companies in the area to market Stannic Finance
• Strive to attain the monthly new business target
• Assess balance sheets of companies to see if the requested finance is possible
• Work with an administrative assistant to process applications and load the 'deals' onto the system.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the training manager to develop suitable training material and interventions
• Arrange and implement technical training to the Stannic staff
• Provide on-the-job training to Stannic Staff
• Attend train-the-trainer interventions and to implement that training
• Schedule training and arrange venues
• Various administrative duties
• Visit rural branches to provide training.

Responsibilities:

• To assist the Business Development Officer
• Capture applications
• Respond to phone calls
• Capture approved 'deals'
• Arrange to obtain all documentation.
• Various administrative tasks.

Responsibilities:

Various administrative tasks such as;

• Schedule and arrange regular payments to debtors
• Respond to phone calls
• Capture payments
• Arrange company cars, business cards etc for Business Development Officers
• Coordinate re-finance for end of lease agreements.

In the first year at Lilfordia Private School, I taught combined Grades1 and 2 classes. After my first year, the school grew sufficiently to have separate classes so I taught Grade 2.

Responsibilities:

• Create all academic material within the curriculum
• Create an inviting learning environment
• Build relationships with each child
• Manage class discipline
• Marking and administration
• Arrange Parent-teacher conferences
• Teach all learning areas
• Extra murals
• Carry out all assigned duties