Centre Principal

Key Areas of Responsibility

Daily Operations

• Establish and set up process for all enquiries are addressed appropriately and in a positive manner, providing relevant information to promote theschool.
• Analyseandreviewallschoolinformationanddevelopprocessesthatrecordsystemsareuptodate,inaccordance with regulatory compliance, easily accessible to management and inaccessible to others such as parents and visitors.

• Statutory and organisational requirements are met and current including, but not limited to, Attendance Sheets, Children and Employee Particulars Files, GSII Subsidies Reports, Receipts and EnrolmentInformation.
• Establish procedures including weekly conversion reports, monthly enrolment reports and salary lists, fees collection, debt management and school purchasing are maintained and provided in the requiredtimeframes.

• All government subsidies, financial aids and other funding must be kept up to date and submitted on time for promptpayments.
• Guide principals on maintaining and monitoring use of equipment with an up to date inventory of furniture, fittings, resources and equipment documented and filed at alltimes.

• Design and review school environment in accordance to HQrequirements.
• Report repairs and maintenance issues and monitor on follow upactions.

• Establish processes for smooth operations of school and resolve any feedbacksreceived.
• Plan and conduct Centre Monthly meetings and Monthly Cluster meetings with minutes documented and follow up actionsplanned.

Compliance

• Establish and develop policies and procedures, implemented, evaluated and reviewed in conjunction with employees and management on a regularbasis.
• Monitor policy development and plan for futurereviews.

• Keep up to date with changes in regulations and industry trends and communicate this information to theteam.
• Review Teachers and Parent Handbooks are reviewed in conjunction with managementregularly.

• GuidePrincipalstoensureschoolcomplianceandcommitmenttorelevantECDAChildCareRegulationsandthe Quality Improvement and AccreditationSystem.
• Guide Principals on Regulatory Standards and ensure that it is evident during all licensing inspections conducted byECDA.

Quality Programmes

• Set direction for principals in achieving curriculum objectives aligned to Vision, Mission and Core Values of school.
• Establish programs which reflects the school philosophy and employees are given adequate planning time on a weeklybasis.

• Strengthen culture of learning among centres and teammembers.
• Use observational tools to conduct classroom observations to review teaching practices with follow upactions.

• Design observational processes and use observations to guideothers.
• Establishanddevelopappropriatemethodsofbehaviourmanagementtoencouragepositivebehaviourinchildren.

• Review the monthly peer Teaching and Learning sessions with proper documentationfiled.
• Review quality programmes by evaluating suggestions and feedbacks from allstakeholders.

• Share good practices with principals on how to keep up to date records of curriculum documents, teaching resources and booksinventories.
• Guide principals with quality curriculum deliverance strategies and monitor individual staff Continuing Professional Development(CPD).

• Involve parent support group in evaluating effectiveness of home learningsupport.
• Review and enhance its collaboration with community partners and to guidecentres.

Staff Management

• Establish effective work practices for all employees in theschool.
• Employee personnel files are complete, current andconfidential.

• Manage employee recruitment and placement according to MOM regulations and Company’spolicies.
• Implement principal/staff induction and review Mentorship/Internship Programme inschool.

• Ensure principals plan and maintain relevant teacher to child ratio at all times, in accordance to ECDAstandard.
• Design processes to strengthen staff morale through effective leadershipguidance.

• Review its approaches to meet staff needs annually and place staff engagement processes to motivate staff and develop staffcommitment.
• Plan and review annually staff deployment for planned and unplanned absence of teachers, ensuring that classes and all programmes activities should beconducted.

• Gather feedback from staff and principal to improve staff well-being in thecentres.
• Review the effectiveness of processes for employee development through appraisals and trainingneeds.

• Plan and analyse reports and other required documents by theHQ.