Subject Leader - Media

Job Description: Subject Leader - Media

Reports to: Assistant Principal Communications

Start date: September 2018

Location: Southwark, London

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Ark Main Pay Scale + TLR2B

This is a fantastic opportunity for an inspiring Leader to develop their career with the support of the Assistant Principal at Ark Globe Academy.

The Role

• To manage the professional community of subject teachers to ensure high attainment in Media across the Academy.
• To develop and lead an exciting curriculum which enables the highest level of pupil progress and attainment.

Key Responsibilities

• Subject coordination across the Academy
• Lead the professional community of subject teachers in the Academy
• Quality teaching and learning of their subject across the Academy
• Curriculum setting and assessment across the Academy as agreed with the Assistant Principal and other relevant SLT.

Outcomes and Activities

• Subject Coordination across the Academy
• Leadership and support of all subject teachers within the Academy
• To ensure that systems are in place that enable all lessons in their subject area are good or better.
• Leadership of the Subject Community
• Assisting in the professional development of teachers including inset training as may be appropriate
• Supervising and supporting beginner teachers and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT’s) as appropriate
• Developing strong partnerships and ensuring regular and productive communication with parents
• Developing others’ practice to sustain best possible outcomes for students.

Teaching and Learning

• Work with the Assistant Principal to establish a subject development plan, target setting and review
• Teach outstanding lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment
• Manage departmental budget and resources effectively and efficiently
• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to lessons and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities
• Implement and adhere to the academies behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times
• Participate in preparing pupils for external examinations
• Maintain regular and productive communication with pupils, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications
• Keep abreast of any developments within their subject area.

Curriculum Setting and Assessment

• Develop high quality syllabuses and schemes of learning for all year groups, in line with National Curriculum requirements, that are inspiring for learners and teachers alike
• Work with the Assistant Principal to monitor and assess teaching and learning within the subject
• Set regular, measurable and significant assessments for the students
• Establish agreement for monitoring and evaluation of student progress
• Maintain accurate pupil data that can be used to make teaching more effective
• To produce/contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of pupils.
• To ensure the regular setting and completion of high quality home learning activities

Academy Culture

• Support the Academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices and procedures
• Help create a strong Academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
• Help develop an Academy culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
• Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professional in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required
• Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations and high expectations of self and other.

Other

• Undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Principal.

Person Specification: Subject Leader - Media

Qualification Criteria

• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK
• Evidence of professional development.

Experience

• Experience of raising attainment in a challenging classroom environment
• Experience of contributing to a high achieving department within a large and complex school environment
• Experience of delivering consistently outstanding lessons to students of all ages and abilities
• Experience of implementing behaviour management strategies consistently and effectively
• Experience of supporting students of all ages and abilities to make excellent progress and achieve impressive examination outcomes
• Experience of leading successful enrichment and extracurricular activities which inspire and motivate learners.

Behaviours

Leadership

• Effective team worker and leader
• Ability to coach and manage staff
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement.
• Acts as a role model to staff and students
• Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations, high expectations of self and others
• Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every student
• Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.

Leading the Curriculum

• Able to establish curriculum development, assessment, coordination and coaching
• Has good communication, planning and organisational skills
• High expectations for accountability and consistency
• Ability to design, implement and evaluate effective, imaginative and stimulating Schemes of learning.

Leading the Learning

• Outstanding classroom practitioner who acts as a professional role model
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, rewards and praise
• Demonstrates the ability to develop others’ practice to ensure that teaching is at least good in the subject area.

Teaching and Learning

• Outstanding classroom teacher with the ability to reflect on lessons and continually improve their own practice
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards
• Thinks strategically about classroom practice and tailoring lessons to students needs
• Understands and interprets complex student data to drive lesson planning and student attainment
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
• Acts as a role model to staff and students
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.

Other

• This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
• Willingness to undertake training.