Job Description
Title: Dean of Students (Secondary)
Company Name: International School Dhaka
Vacancy: 1
Location: Dhaka
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
∎ 3 to 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):School
Published: 16 Jan 2025
Education:
∎ Master of Education (M.Ed)
∎ Professional Certification: International Teaching Certificate
Requirements:
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Create, manage and enforce school behavioral expectations.
∎ Oversee day-to-day disciplinary and attendance issues, working closely with staff to ensure compliance with school policies.
∎ Research, identify, plan, and implement strategies to address barriers to learning including attendance concerns, behavior issues, and social adjustment.
∎ Communicate clearly and in a timely fashion with students, parents and appropriate school staff regarding any disciplinary event or consequence.
∎ Document, compile, communicate, analyze and share student infraction data for purposes of interventions and consequences.
∎ Oversee in-school suspensions, including logistics, teacher communication, supervision, assignments and follow-up meetings with students.
∎ Investigate student complaints and interview students and witnesses in disciplinary investigations.
∎ Provide and monitor progressive discipline such as behavioral session, restitution, detention, in-school suspension and out-of-school suspension.
∎ Build positive and respectful relationships with students.
∎ Undertake all responsibilities as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in the school.
∎ Create and oversee student wellbeing programs, including grade-level retreats (Week Without Walls), after school activities and student leadership opportunities.
∎ Monitor and support the work of the Student Council
∎ Oversee the student experience and foster a school climate that enhances community and student growth.
∎ Establish supportive relationships between the home and school.
∎ Coordinate and conduct appropriate parent/teacher conferences related to attendance, behavior, and wellbeing at school.
∎ Be present and visible in the school community by frequently connecting with students in common areas, school cafeteria, co-curricular spaces, hallways, and other spaces students gather.
∎ Nurture and coach student leaders.
∎ Provide proactive and responsive one-on-one and group-based student support.
∎ Coordinate with the student support team to address student needs and offer leadership when considering the intersection of academic, behavioral, social, and emotional supports.
∎ Oversee the curriculum development, teaching arrangements, including participation in the teaching of the Homeroom program for Grades 6 to 10.
∎ Establish and support respectful relationships with faculty and staff.
∎ Work closely and communicate regularly with the athletic director, school counselor, school nurse, and facilities personnel.
∎ Serve as a conduit between students and faculty by providing important feedback to staff about the student experience and mediating conversations between students and adults.
∎ Serve as a point person along with teachers, counselor, and Secondary Principal in supporting students facing significant challenges.
∎ Collaborate with the Secondary Principal in leading new student onboarding and plan new student events and programming throughout the school year.
∎ Deputise in the absence of the Secondary Principal as required.
∎ Purpose: The Dean of Students will work closely with the Secondary Principal, Secondary Vice Principal, staff, parents and Secondary students to create and maintain a positive school atmosphere and a healthy community by creating and communicating processes and developing a strong culture that will enable students to learn in a safe, positive and caring environment that promotes success, growth and wellbeing.
∎ Specific Duties:
∎ Student Behavior:
∎ Student Wellbeing:
∎ Working with Faculty:
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Dhaka
Company Information:
∎ International School Dhaka
∎ Plot 80, Block E, Basundhara R/A, Dhaka 1229
∎ Since 1999 ISD has been providing a first class English Medium International Education to National and Expatriate students on a beautiful purpose built campus. ISD is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School authorized for the PYP, MYP, DP Programmes.
Address::
∎ Plot 80, Block E, Basundhara R/A, Dhaka 1229
∎ Since 1999 ISD has been providing a first class English Medium International Education to National and Expatriate students on a beautiful purpose built campus. ISD is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School authorized for the PYP, MYP, DP Programmes.
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
Category: Education/Training
