Head of Economics

NLCS (Singapore) believes that each employee makes a significant contribution to our success and that contributions should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities.

Therefore, this position description is designed to outline primary duties, qualifications, and job scope, but not limit the employee, nor NLCS (Singapore), to only the work identified. It is the expectation of the school, that each employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our organisation.

Our School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The School expects all teaching staff, non‐teaching staff and volunteers to share and uphold this commitment.

NLCS (Singapore) is looking for an enthusiastic, highly qualified and committed **Head of Economics **, with an outstanding track record of success, for August 2023. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading international school as it enters an exciting new phase of development. We have just started our third year of operation and already have over 1000 students enrolled.

**Leadership & Management**
- Lead the academic monitoring of the department, collaborating with colleagues to ensure that appropriate quality assurance measures are in place as per the Academic Monitoring Handbook.
- Lead, manage and evaluate all teaching staff within the department, ensuring that they consistently maintain high levels of teaching quality and professionalism _(note: in cases where department members have additional responsibilities and are line managed by other colleagues, this is a collaborative process) _.
- Liaise with the appropriate member of Senior Team to ensure that the training, development and welfare needs of members of the department are met.
- Maintain a Department Handbook, which contains departmental policies and procedures regarding curriculum, assessment, marking, feedback, reporting and any other relevant information for teachers in the department.
- Ensure that members of the department adhere to the Department Handbook and the Academic Staff Handbook, as well as other relevant school policies.
- Coordinate the drawing up of schemes of work/unit plans in the department, ensuring that there is effective vertical articulation of the curriculum and that it is academically challenging and rigorous.
- Ensure that all students are taught the concepts, contexts and content outlined in the agreed department schemes of work/unit plans and prepared accordingly for associated internal and external assessments.
- Ensure that departmental colleagues set appropriate, differentiated teaching and homework tasks, and that high-quality feedback is given in line with the department marking policy.
- Produce an annual resource order for the department, ensuring that all books, stationery and other resources needed for the following academic year are included.
- Through management of assigned budgets, ensure that the day-to-day resourcing needs of the department are met.
- Oversee the curation of a bank of teaching materials and other resources within the department.
- Liaise with the Head of Libraries and the ICT Director to ensure that appropriate library and electronic resources are in place to support teaching and learning in the department.
- Ensure colleagues make effective use of available resources to support teaching and learning (including the Library and ICT).
- Ensure that systems are in place for the quality assurance of all assessment, recording and reporting in the department, including standardisation/moderation of grades awarded and proofreading of written report comments/targets.
- Encourage and organise extracurricular activities and events associated with the department (e.g. exhibitions, clubs, societies, enrichment weeks) and promote student participation in these, as well as external events and competitions.
- Bring to the attention of the relevant Assistant Principal (Academic) any difficulties that may arise.
- Attend regular line management meetings with the relevant Assistant Principal (Academic).
- Chair regular minuted meetings with team members to discuss department matters.
- Assist in the recruitment, assessment and appointment of department personnel.
- Ensure that the general appearance of the department area is kept up, and that high quality displays are in place in department corridors and classrooms.
- Liaise with parents on issues related to departmental provision, as appropriate.
- Collaborate with other departments in the running of interdisciplinary activities, including MYP Interdisciplinary Units and enrichment weeks, supporting the horizontal articulation of the curriculum.
- Review examination results and other assessment data within the department, implementing remedial action when necessary to improve performance of the department and the students within it.
- Present an annual review of the department to the Principal, including strategic analysis of examin