Assistant Head - Assessment, Student Achievement & Outcomes

Academia Britanica Cuscatleca; Misamis Oriental; On-site; PHP 3,841,000 - 5,122,000; Full time

Job summary

Academia Britanica Cuscatleca seeks an exceptional Assistant Head – Achievement & Assessment to drive student attainment in the secondary section. The role requires strategic leadership, data-informed decision making, and strong collaboration with the leadership team, faculties, and support services.

You will model high teaching standards, lead an assessment and reporting cycle, and implement targeted interventions to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven strategic leadership for attainment and outcomes.
• Strong communication skills across staff, students, and parents.
• Experience translating vision into academic objectives and plans.
• Ability to analyse performance data and drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead SSLT to ensure clear leadership and management of the school.
• Translate the school vision into academic objectives with plans.
• Oversee data collection, analysis, and publishing cycles for assessment and reporting.
• Design and monitor whole-school academic intervention frameworks.
• Coordinate exam periods and options events for IBMYP/IBDP.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Masters preferred

Job description

Academia Britanica Cuscatleca is an established IB World School located in Santa Tecla, El Salvador The ABC is a the regional leading educational institution providing a high-quality international education to children aged 3 - 18 years old.

The school is looking for an exceptional and ambitious Assistant Head – Achievement & Assessment to help shape the next stage of our ongoing development. This is a significant leadership opportunity in the secondary section of a school with a clear commitment to a values based holistic education where there is a shared determination to ensure every student achieves their best outcomes.

With strategic responsibility for student achievement, progress and outcomes, you will establish the highest expectations across the school, use assessment and performance information intelligently to identify priorities, and provide the right balance of challenge and support to leaders across the secondary school. This will include ensuring the progress of all students, monitoring effective intervention to ensure that improvement activity has a measurable impact on student outcomes.

Alongside your strategic leadership responsibilities, you will be an excellent teacher, modelling the highest standards of classroom practice and working closely with an established team to contribute to the continued success of your subject area.

You will be an experienced and credible secondary school leader with a strong record of improving outcomes and turning strategy into sustained improvement. An analytical and confident decision-maker, who will be able to interpret performance information, identify where action is needed and inspire others to respond with ambition and urgency. You will bring excellent communication and people leadership skills, resilience, sound judgement and the ability to build productive relationships across the school community. You will have had recent middle leadership experience within your curriculum area as well as working with other curriculum leaders.

You will need to look at our website to ensure that you share our values and commitments to a holistic education. As a member of our team you will be collaborative, with the energy to set and maintain excellent standards and the belief that every student deserves the opportunity to succeed in line with our school motto.

REPORTING TO:

Head of Secondary

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Secondary School Leadership Team, Heads of Faculties, Student Services, IT Support Team, Marketing & Admissions, Students, Parents, Primary School Leadership Team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership for Student Attainment

The following list is not exhaustive and may change over time to meet the needs of the school:

• To work effectively as a member of the Secondary Senior Leadership Team (SSLT) to ensure clear leadership and management of the school.

• Support the Head of Secondary in creating strong leadership priorities and collaborative ways of working with all stakeholders including the Board of Governors and wider community.

• To make recommendations to the SSLT and Governors on the development of standards and engagement, including an analysis of relevant research, required resources and staffing.

• Assist the Head of Secondary in translating the vision for the school into agreed academic objectives with strategic and operational plans.

• To ensure efficient and effective data collection and analysis across the secondary school which ensures monitoring of students, builds comprehensive student profiles and contributes to VA analysis.

• Lead the Secondary School assessment and reporting cycle, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and timely publication within an overall assessment and reporting plan.

• Formulate, execute, and assess a multi-layered whole school academic intervention framework, incorporating individual and small-group support, identifying and targeting learning opportunities.

• Oversee high-impact educational initiatives to drive pupil attainment and foster motivation, including: subject-focused revision workshops and study sessions, targeted mentoring sessions and aspirational progress schemes

• Identify and assist in the deployment of key resources to address critical areas of need across the school.

• To develop and implement an effective schedule for assessment events across secondary school that is: time-efficient; sensitive to teacher workload; led by the best interests of students; and supports monitoring and evaluation and improvement planning.

• To liaise with the Examinations Officer in organising and managing exam periods.

• Assist students and parents in making appropriate choices for IBMYP and IBDP courses (including for example organising IBMYP and IBDP options events).

IT, Systems, and Technical Leadership

• Lead the administration and strategic planning of standardised assessments, including PTs and CAT4 tests.

• Manage the strategic digital infrastructure required to effectively administer standardised assessments, including PTs and CAT4 tests.

• Partner with the IT Support Team to ensure that key performance metrics are both accessible and actionable for all relevant stakeholders.

• Provide transparent, analytical reports for the Head of Secondary, Secondary Senior Leadership Team, and Governors detailing progress trajectories, projected outcomes, and the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

Communication, Partnerships, and Community Engagement

• Contribute to student assemblies and community eventswith parents.

• Be a visible, proactive presence around the school, promoting positive behaviour and the overall ethos and values of the school.

• Conduct systematic, robust Raising Standards meetings with Curriculum Leaders to scrutinise grade predictions and evaluate the efficacy of subject-specific strategies.

• To assist Heads of Faculty in formulating assessment policies which are fair, consistent and reflect student learning and performance.

• Collaborate with Student Services and Heads of Faculty to ensure students with specific learning needs and those in danger of under achieving, receive appropriate and effective interventions.

Safeguarding, Online Safety, and Compliance

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practice to ensure strict compliance across all digital data-handling, student profiling, and reporting procedures.

PROFESSIONALISM

• To be a positive role model for the children in the values of kindness, good manners and wisdom, work ethic and high standards.

• To be a role model for others, demonstrating outstanding teaching and establishing high standards in achievement and discipline.

• To be dedicated to your own professional development and the importance of reflective practice.

• To fully engage with the annual review system.

• To work with the other teachers and student services where a student may have special educational needs to ensure that all students reach their potential.

• To foster strong relationships with parents so we all work to help our students together.

• To liaise with colleagues and be a supportive and cooperative team player.

• To have a clear understanding of the needs of all students, including those with SEN, EAL or specific needs and to promote distinctive teaching approaches to extend and support all children.

• To contribute positively to the ethos of the school.

• To chair or attend meetings and school events, which may take place within or outside normal school hours in line with the agreed school calendar.

• To undertake peer observations.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

• To plan and prepare well-structured lessons to engage, inspire and extend each student in the class.

• To make sure the classroom is a positive and exciting place, using positive behaviour management to motivate, support and extend students.

• To be responsible and accountable for the academic progress of each student in your class.

• To ensure that students reflect on their work and progress and set themselves targets to improve.

• To be knowledgeable and interested in the areas you teach and to keep up to date with educational initiatives.

• To regularly assess, record and monitor the progress of all students according to the school's policy thereby providing accurate information to parents as required.

• To contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum with colleagues.

PERSONAL QUALITIES, QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Appropriate educational qualifications - ideally including masters level

• Versatility and flexibility of own leadership style, having an awareness of different styles and in which circumstances it is appropriate to adopt an alternative approach

• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.

• Strong organisational skills including the ability to delegate, the use of effective time management and the ability to prioritise

• Genuine passion and belief in the potential of every pupil

• The ability to demonstrate unconditional positive regard towards young people

• Strategic thinking and the potential to adopt an entrepreneurial approach to the role

• An educational vision aligned with the school’s high aspirations and high expectations of themselves and others

• Confident and effective presentational skills during public speaking

• Skillful management and maintenance of working relationships with parents and other stakeholders

• Ability to lead, coach and motivate staff, including their professional development and effective management of under performance