Principal Job Description

Hiring an experienced Principal to lead the school operations in line with the vision and mission of the organization, ensuring high levels of parent satisfaction and enable the centre to be profitable on sustainable basis. The ideal candidate needs to provide strong leadership to the staff members, parent community and be child centric in approach.

Key Responsibility:

– Effectively carry out all Academic and Administrative duties.

– Effectively manage the complete school operations in an optimal manner, ensuring that the branch is profitable on a sustainable basis.

– Ensure that all provisions of the Affiliation and Examination Byelaws and all directions given by CBSE from time to time are strictly complied with.

– Ensures the activities of the school are conducted in accordance with the rules laid down by the local authority, State Education Department and the respective Board of Examination (CBSE).

– Effectively co-ordinate with the Central office for policies or any updates

– Ensure the information called for by the education department/ Central office is shared with them within timelines.

– Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all student’s academic performance and student discipline

– Effectively ensure that the teaching staff is optimally engaged at all points in time

– Supervise classroom teaching and effectively guide hand-hold and motivate teachers to give their best as per the Orchids curriculum philosophy.

– Effectively conduct, manage, supervise various events like parent orientation, PTM, sports day, coffee meets, student events &competition.

– Oversee the execution of the Curricular and Extra Curricular Programme as per guidelines.

– Effectively manage parent teacher association and respective committees and ensure parent delight during all parent interfaces with the school management.

– Coordinate with marketing team to extend marketing efforts as well to address parent questions.

– Maintain effective communication with students, staff and parents and effectively handle parent concerns.

– Effectively control attrition by facilitating a conducive work environment for the school staff.

– Effectively ensure that there is adherence to HR Policies and work with Human Resources team to recruit efficient resources within the prescribed time frame.

– Ensure teaching and non-teaching staff are taken through induction program at regular intervals.

– Any other assignments as directed by the managing committee

Required Candidate Profile

Minimum Masters Degree Science, Arts & Commerce

Minimum B.Ed Experience: 10 to 15 years of work experience in academics with minimum 4 to 5 years of work experience as a Principal or 5 to 7 Years + Exp. As VP/Headmistress.

Expected Competencies:

– Good analytical skills ability to make recommendations based on information gathered and sound judgment.

– Sound Technical skills to manage they dynamic online learning platforms

– Ability to drive consensus in decision making, especially in conflicting situations

– Extrovert, result oriented, mentor and leader focused on outcomes and ability to stand up to committed deliverables

– Demonstrated ability to work in a high growth and dynamic school business environment.

– Ability to deal with ambiguity, understand business requirements and translate those into a Profit Making Branch.

– Strong communication, interpersonal, presentation skills