Centre Leader /Principal (EAST)

Overview

The Centre Leader leads in developing strategic plans and structures to foster a culture of care and trust, mentoring, collaborative professionalism and continuous learning within the Centre. He/She is responsible for managing and enhancing Centre operations while adhering to industry regulations. He/She drives operational and programme excellence by developing strong processes in strategic areas such as governance, partnerships, continuous development, curriculum and pedagogy.

He/She develops frameworks for sustained collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, possesses strong communication skills and is highly influential. He/She leads in modelling the Centre's mission, vision and values, and oversees the well-being of all staff in the Centre.

Responsibilities

• Manage manpower resources
• Lead the design of initiatives to establish a culture of collaboration within the Centre.
• Review Centre's manpower plans.
• Establish strategies to engender a culture of mentoring, coaching and capability development within the Centre
• Drive capability development and coaching initiatives within the Centre
• Manage Centre operations
• Lead the development of improvements on systems, processes and operations.
• Review the coherence of Centre's initiatives, systems and processes.
• Develop preventive and pre-emptive strategies for challenges faced by team leaders within the Centre.
• Manage the budget for day-to-day operations in the Centre.
• Drive programmes and service excellence initiatives
• Lead Centre to develop Centre strategic priorities, culture and governance.
• Establish plans and structures to engender a culture of continuous learning within the Centre.
• Drive buy-in on vision, mission and values within the Centre.
• Drive initiative and enterprise within the Centre.
• Plan and implement curriculum and programmes
• Drive the design of quality teaching and learning approaches beyond the Centre level.
• Drive the enhancement of learning needs assessment processes and structures.
• Align children engagement strategies in accordance with Centre policies.
• Drive the development of quality classroom management strategies in accordance with leading practices beyond the Centre level.
• Evaluate improvements made to enhance quality of learning environment.
• Advocate the importance of appropriate health, safety, nutritional and hygiene standards and procedures beyond the Centre level.
• Lead the development of new teaching and learning methods, tools and assistive technologies based on emerging trends in the sector.
• Build stakeholder relationships and partnerships
• Inculcate a culture of collaboration within the Centre.
• Lead the strategic design of partnerships and collaborations with families and community stakeholders within the Centre.
• Model professionalism when collaborating with families and community stakeholders within the Centre.
• Represent the Centre to build business relationships.
• Design Centre initiatives, families and community programmes and initiatives.
• Uplift professional practice
• Establish plans and structures to engender a culture of mentoring within the Cluster.
• Drive professional development, training, workshops, educational initiatives and service quality improvement of professionals.
• Drive buy-in on vision, mission and values within the Centre.
• Others
• Any other duties as and when assigned by Headquarters.
  
  

Requirements

• Technical Competencies
• Please refer to SkillsFramework for Early Childhood sector
• Competent with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word and Excel)
• Core Competencies
• Advanced inclusivity building skills able to oversee the development and implementation of processes and practices which
  
  

build an inclusive work environment and enable diverse groups to work effectively together.

• Advanced communication skills to synthesise information and inputs to communicate an overarching storyline to multiple stakeholders.
• Advanced people development skills to foster a conducive environment to enable employees' professional and personal development, in alignment with the organisation's
  
  

objectives and goals.

• Proficient in written and spoken English
• Meticulous mindset and follows through with processes and tasks
• Strong multi-tasking skill
• Preferred achievements / characteristics
• L2 certified with Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA)
• Advanced Diploma in Early Childhood Leadership ("ADECL") or equivalent