Guardianship Liaison

Stamford American International School, Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stamford American International School, Singapore invites applications for a Guardianship Liaison to support the welfare and school experience of students living in Singapore without their parents. This role focuses on safeguarding, belonging, and effective collaboration with students, families and staff.

The successful candidate will engage with a wide range of stakeholders, manage sensitive conversations with care, and help ensure guardianship students feel safe, supported, and valued within a

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with students, parents and stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and build relationships.
• Proactive, independent, and able to take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with children in international or residential school contexts.
• Knowledge of child safeguarding principles and practices.
• Mandarin proficiency is beneficial for communications.

Responsibilities

• Promote welfare and enhance the school experience for guardianship students.
• Build strong relationships with students, parents and school stakeholders.
• Support safeguarding practices and respond to safeguarding concerns.
• Collaborate with boarding and counseling teams.
• Maintain accurate records and communicate sensitively.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Proactivity

Teamwork ability

Experience with children

Boarding experience

Adaptability

Sensitive conversations

Child safeguarding

Tech literacy

Guardianship awareness

Mandarin skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education

Job description

As a leading international school in Singapore, Stamford American International School (Stamford American) caters to students aged 2 months to 18 years old. With students from 79 countries and over 3000 students across two state-of-the-art campuses, we offer a dynamic educational journey emphasizing student well-being and academic excellence.

Stamford American is proud to be an IB World School, offering the full continuum of the International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes: the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP), IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), and IB Diploma Programme (DP). The school's outstanding faculty comprising more than 350 experienced and highly qualified teachers from over 40 nationalities, through a competitive recruitment process. Educators are highly skilled in their content areas and pedagogy, but equally important, they excel at building strong relationships and creating an environment where students feel safe, supported, and valued.

The school now has an exciting opportunity for a Guardianship Liaison to join our Safeguarding team.

About the Role:

The Guardianship Liaison plays a key support role in promoting the welfare, and enhancing the school experience, of Stamford American students living in Singapore without their parents. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing and evolving area of school practice, where innovation and collaboration are key to shaping meaningful support for students under guardianship. Success in this role relies on the ability to build strong, effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders with the goal of ensuring each student is safe, supported, and feels a sense of belonging.

Position Requirements:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage confidently with students, parents, and a wide range of school stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build effective relationships across diverse teams.
• Proactive and able to take initiative.
• Confident working both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience working with children (ideally ages 12-18) in an international or residential school context.
• Background in boarding, education, counseling, or safeguarding is advantageous.
• Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in managing sensitive or challenging conversations with care and professionalism.
• Sound knowledge of child safeguarding principles and practices.
• Proficient with technology, highly organized, and detail-oriented.
• Awareness of the challenges faced by students living without parents
• Proficiency in Mandarin is beneficial to support communication with members of the school community where necessary.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Education or equivalent is required.
• Preferred relevant experience in Boarding, Education, Counseling or Safeguarding.

The school is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and valued. There is no discrimination on the basis of age, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, family status, pregnancy, marital status, medical or mental health history, physical characteristics, or disability. All applications from qualified candidates are welcome.

Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the recruitment process.