Vice Principal

**Summary**
We are looking for an outstanding individual to join Harris Garrard Academy as Vice Principal, taking specific responsibility for Data and Curriculum Development.

**About Us**
Harris Garrard Academy is a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the wider South Thamesmead area, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links, the academy’s stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004.

**Dedicated to moving forward**

Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.

As one of Harris’s successful all-through academies, staff at all levels belong to a strong, cohesive team working with Executive Principal and the wider SLT team. Staff can expect to grow with us as we continue to innovate and evolve as an academy. With ample opportunity to build on CPD, your potential is limitless with us.

**Main Areas of Responsibility**
- Data
- Curriculum Development

**General Expectation of Academy Leadership Group**
- Collaborate as a member of the academy Leadership Group in order to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards for all students.
- To play a major role in determining strategy for the academy.
- Contributing actively towards the formulation of all academy policies and procedures and ensuring their consistent implementation throughout the school.
- Ensuring high quality teaching and learning in line managed faculties, following the academy policy for self-evaluation and review.
- To manage delegated budgets effectively.
- To attend academy leadership meetings as appropriate.
- To engage in the process of appointing new staff including the interview process.
- To participate in duties lunch/break/before and after school.
- Contributing to assemblies.
- Sharing in the management of student disciplinary incidents, making recommendations to the Principal regarding exclusions and facilitating the process of student re-integration.
- To actively participate in the monitoring evaluation and review of teaching and learning in line managed faculties. Managing any capability or disciplinary procedures in line with academy policy, where appropriate.

**Teaching**
- To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching according to the duties of a standard scale teacher.
- To assist in the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies and teaching strategies.
- To contribute to the academy Improvement Plan and its implementation.
- To attend all appropriate meetings.
- To plan and prepare courses and lessons in line with academy policy.
- To contribute to the whole academy’s planning activities.
- To teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the students in the academy.
- To assess record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as required.
- To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.
- To ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy and Enterprise are reflected in the teaching/learning experience of students.

**Management of Resources**
- To manage the available resources of space, staff, budget and equipment effectively within the policies and procedures of the academy.

**Qualifications & Experience** Knowledge & Experience**
- Graduate (with a good degree)
- Qualified Teacher
- Minimum of three years at senior leadership level at AP/ Vice Principal role.
- Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff
- Evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance
- Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
- Good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards
- Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
- Experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, managers, governors and parents
- Ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
- Experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning in a whole school situation
- Experience of managi