Dean of Students (Secondary)

International School Dhaka

 

International School Dhaka

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Summary

• Vacancy: 1
• Location: Dhaka
• Salary: Negotiable
• Experience: 3 to 5 years
• Published: 16 Jan 2025

 

Requirements

Education

• Master of Education (M.Ed)

• Professional Certification: International Teaching Certificate

Experience

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
  School

Responsibilities & Context

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: 

• 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.

Student Wellbeing:

• 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.

Working with Faculty:

• 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.

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Dhaka

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