Role Description

Reports to: Center Manager/Academic Operations Manager

The Head Teacher manages the center academic department by maintaining pro-active oversight over key areas, providing remedial action and training where necessary. The Head Teacher collaborates with the Center Manager to build business opportunities for the center and create a strong customer base. The Head Teacher works to form a highly reputable center teaching team that is productive and accountable within the wider national Athena team.

The Head Teacher will teach up to a maximum of *** regular teaching hours per month. In addition, they may be asked to perform other irregular teaching duties including, but not limited to: demo classes; make up classes; covering sick or absent teachers; and helping with marketing events. The maximum combined regular and irregular teaching hours should not exceed the contracted ***** hours per month. During the months of Summer and Winter Camps, regular teaching hours may be increased as per the contract.

This individual will also be expected to foster a professional, collaborative culture of personal and departmental responsibility and ongoing improvement and growth.
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Duties and Responsibilities

Uphold the highest standards of professional behaviour, attitude and appearance as per the Athena Code of Conduct and the Athena Employee Handbook.

Management
Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena curricula, screener and placement processes.
Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena standards for student monitoring, assessment, feedback and reporting.
Pro-actively oversee teachers’ academic administration documents (i.e. lesson plans and course files).
Share teaching resources with colleagues at other Athena centers.
Support ongoing curriculum development of courses by retaining and sharing teaching resources and occasionally developing new resources under direction of Academic Management.

Organise teacher training workshops that respond to both individual teacher, centre and company needs.
Implement Athena standards for teacher appraisal, including scheduled lesson evaluations, check-in sessions and setting of individual objectives.
Maintain updated and accurate records of individual teacher training, observations and evaluations.

Organise and co-lead focused and action-oriented weekly meetings with center staff and teachers.
Complete all academic reporting as assigned by Academic Management.
Conduct interviews of new teachers for center, reporting feedback to HR.
Support the Centre Manager with business development. Help with sales, referral and marketing events.

Teaching
Set high expectations that inspire, motivate and challenge students.
Plan and teach outstanding and engaging lessons that meet course syllabus goals and objectives while applying Athena teaching approaches.
Effectively deploy a range of strategies to manage and develop the classroom environment to create a welcoming, open, effective and positive learning environment.
Differentiate class instruction, activities and resources in order to maximise learning opportunities for all learners.
Apply appropriate forms of assessment to monitor student progress.
Provide timely and effective student feedback.
Update, maintain and submit a record of attendance, assessment and lesson planning using Athena course files.
Write student reports and participate in teacher-parent meetings as per Athena Guidelines.

Students age group: 4-15 years old
Class size: max 12
Without TA
Lesson Plan: Only advanced class lesson plans need to be adjusted based on students' demands.
Curriculum: Common Core
Start Date: ASAP

Compensation and Benefits
Housing Allowance
Annual bonus
Work visa sponsorship
Top level global medical insurance
Airfare allowance
Paid holidays
Paid Sick Leave days
Annual Health Check
Arrival Assistance (such as airport pickup and apartment search)
Holiday Benefits
Free accommodations upon first arrival
TEFL (if needed)