Job offer: School Principal (1 Position)

SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia (website) is a Member Association (MA) of the SOS Children’s Villages International federation, which is one of the largest non-for-profit organisation in the world dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it. We are committed for safeguarding and protecting children in our programmes by having zero tolerance policy in this regard. We are further committed to provide a safe environment for staff and children, young people and adults with whom we work, where human rights are respected and upheld, and healthy relations fostered by building organisational systems, capacity, and awareness on PSHEA (prevention and protection against sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse) guidelines. All our co-workers are obliged to follow SOS regulation on Child and Youth Safeguarding, PSHEA and Code of Conduct. We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the work place. SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia has been active in the country for more than 20 years. Through its program interventions in 7 provinces SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia provides long term family-based care, protection, education, health care and community-based programs to thousands of children and youth. To support us with this important responsibility we are now looking for a committed:

We are currently seeking the qualified and competitive dynamic candidates to fill the following position(s) as below:

Reports to : National Director

Job Summary

Principal responsible for directs and coordinates educational, administrative, and counselling activities of primary, secondary or high school: Develops and evaluates educational program to ensure conformance to government and school board standards. Develops and coordinates educational programs through meetings with staff, review of teachers’ activities, and issuance of directives. Confers with teachers, students, and parents concerning educational and behavioural problems in school. Establishes and maintains relationships with colleges, community organizations, and other schools to coordinate educational services. Requisitions and allocates supplies, equipment, and instructional material as needed. Directs preparation of class schedules, cumulative records, and attendance reports. Observes and evaluates teacher performance. Interviews and hires teachers. Walks about school building and property to monitor safety and security. Plans and monitors school budget, plan and direct building maintenance, develop and administer educational programs for students with mental or physical handicaps, be required to have certification from government

Duties

• Plan, organize and coordinate the school program and/or administrative activities of a large scale in the HGS, supervise the work of subordinates engaged in sectional operations such as pedagogical group, curriculum development, centralize records keeping, purchasing, accounting and fiscal control and claim, advises subordinate staff and make decisions on difficult casework and administrative problems; participate in interviewing, selection, assignment, training of professional and key staff personnel.
• Participate with top management and executive staff in developing, revising, and implementing HG school in accordance with SOS policy and strategy and governmental la, and regulation
• Direct and/or participate in the development and preparation of sectional budget and compile supporting statistical and fiscal data; supervise and review the preparation of a variant of financial and statistical reports such as administrative reimbursement claims to the national office.
• Receive communities input and reviews, evaluate, modifies and propose program to meet communities needs, serves as interface between communities, parents, individual, and other official bodies with SOS national office; participate in communities organization meeting and speaking for public and private on the purpose of HG school, develop and maintain effective relation with PDoE and communities, parents.
• Conduct program evaluation to determine whether program are being administered properly and efficiently; meet with teaching staff to discuss and resolve any grievance problems, and participate in negotiations with employee groups; analyze and interpret for subordinate supervisory staff and legislative or legal change from MoE, and PDoE which affect fiscal operation of HG school project.
• Develop and implement general internal policies, perform special assignment from ND related to the FSP as and when desired.

Requirements

• Qualification & Experience:
• Possession of a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy, social work, business administration
• Significant experiences in administration
• Excellent command of written and spoken English, Khmer language
• Three years of broad and progressively responsible school administration, management
• experiences, including significant supervisory experiences
• Demonstrated high level of ethical commitments and trustworthiness.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others and perform basic mathematical calculation.
• High sense of Child Safeguarding, look for solutions and focus on desired results
• We encourage females to apply
• Essential Values, Behaviours and Skills
• and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, and good writing skills.
• Organize work and set priorities to meet deadlines, read, understand and apply legal requirements and administrative policies to all section functions.
• Commitment, energy, initiative, a willingness to learn, and intellectual flexibility.