Early Childhood Inspector &Quality Assurance Specialist
MOE
Total years of experience :27 years, 2 Months
- To visit the inspection teams during the inspection to the Early Childhood Institutions and find out to what extent the quality of the inspection visit procedures.
- To write quality assurance reports based on the inspection team and the inspection visit.
- To ensure that the inspection team reports are following the MOE quality assurance standards.
- To update and revise the Early Childhood Institutions framework as and when required according to best practice and the prevailing Laws and regulations.
- Advise and deliver training to new and current on best inspection practices.
- To ensure that all Institutions’ data are filled and updated on the Ministry CRM system.
- To check the quality of the Purpose Oriented Visits and the follow-up visits to the institutions which didn’t achieve the compliance percentage.
- To check the correction plans before sharing them with Early Childhood Institutions.
- To check the quality of the compliance with Covid-19 Protocols and Procedures visits.
- To ensure that 100% of the inspection reports are issued within 24 hours from the time of the visit.
- Proposing and following up on the implementation of at least one innovative idea per year.
- Analyzing the data of the inspection reports.
- Writing the annual final reports.
- To update and revise all the inspection standards and forms when needed.
Main Responsibilities
- The day-to-day running of the center.
- Creating a welcoming and family-friendly environment.
- Support staff to meet statutory ratios and include contingency staffing where appropriate.
- Provide a safe, caring, and stimulating environment for both children and staff.
- Ensure the British standards for childcare are maintained at all times.
- Implementing the Equal Opportunities Policy.
- Implementing quality assurance and compliance with all applicable legislation.
- Establish effective working relationships with partner agencies providing services within the institution.
- Develop and review applicable policies and procedures.
- Establish and deliver an effective curriculum that includes assessment, planning, and evaluation.
- Maintain procedures for assessment of children’s progress in partnership with parents.
- Implement an effective parent liaison program, ensuring regular communication with them.
- Deal with complaints positively per procedures.
- Responsible for marketing through the development and implementation of marketing strategy.
- Ensure that the register and up-to-date records of all children are maintained using the daycare provision and to give regular feedback to parents about their child’s development and progress.
- Achieve the targets set for occupancy levels by managing capacity, numbers of children, and following up inquiries promptly to ensure maximum capacity levels are maintained.
- Manage an allocated budget following agreed procedures.
- Ensure an effective stock control system is established and a register of assets is maintained.
- Recruit and support staff with the appropriate skills, qualifications, and qualities including induction.
- Implement a program of supervision and performance management and an appraisal system
- Agree on developmental plans for each member of staff.
- Provide training for all the staff, including new starters alongside the Head Teacher.
- Establishing and maintaining a safe and acceptable standard of practice that meets KHDA criteria
- Equip the Nursery with suitable materials of high quality which enhance the Nursery environment.
- Maintain regular risk assessments, produce evacuation plans and fire drills.
- Produce reports and maintaining high standards of accuracy and confidentiality in record-keeping.
- Responsible for developing and improving relations with all parents, especially Arabic parents.
- Responsible for helping parents to complete their children’s registration in the Nursery.
- Responsible for resolving all parents’ problems, and providing feedback to parents.
- Dealing with all transactions and relations with the Ministry of Social Affairs.
- Supervising and guiding Arabic teachers in the four Nursery branches.
- Planning rosters and duties for staff.
- Responsible for the management, training and development of all staff.
- Responsible for developing and implementing work schemes and Arabic lesson plans in line with the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
- Responsible for translating all kinds of Nursery documents and letters from English to Arabic and from Arabic to English.
- Assisting in all management duties and HR department.
- Interviewing and recruiting new staff.
- Responsible for risk assessment file including fire drills and evacuation of the Nursery building.
- Responsible for creating and updating the Nursery Arabic Academic planner and Nursery website in Arabic.
- Attending all staff meetings, in-service trainings and professional sessions, including staff and parent meetings.
- Organizing regular staff meetings to identify problems and find solutions.
- Observing, assessing and recording each staff achievement.
- Creating safe, healthy, and supportive learning environments for children and staff of the Nursery.
- Ensuring the health and safety of children is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the nursery.
- Organizing and taking part in Nursery activities and events including trips, birthday parties and graduation ceremonies.
- Monitoring Nursery materials, supplies, resources and orders as needed.
- Responsible for maintaining petty cash drawer and distribution of petty cash when necessary.
- Deputizing for the General Manager in her absence.
- Motivating children to learn and imaginatively using resources in order to facilitate learning.
- Developing the social and communication skills of children and providing a safe and secure environment in which the child can learn.
- Working to develop close and effective relationships with parents, including opportunities to discuss and understand the child’s individual progress, encouraging them to bond with both the class and the larger school community; providing individualized tracking of student progress.
- Focusing on optimum child development and preparing for a successful transition to primary school education.
- Teaching all areas of the foundation stage which is focused on helping the children to achieve early learning goals.
- Motivating and stimulating the children's learning abilities, often encouraging learning through experience.
- Devising and producing visual aids and teaching resources.
- Organizing learning materials and resources and making imaginative use of resources.
- Assisting with the development of children's personal, social and language abilities.
- Supporting the development of children's basic skills, including physical coordination, speech and communication.
- Encouraging children's mathematical and creative development through stories, songs, games, drawing, heuristic and imaginative play.
- Developing children's curiosity and knowledge.
- Working with teaching assistants to plan and coordinate work both indoors and outdoors.
- Observing, assessing and recording each child's progress.
- Ensuring the health and safety of children and staff is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the nursery.
- Using psychological methods and research to make positive changes
- Solving psychological problems of the students.
- Observing, assessing and recording each student's behavior progress.
- Helping students who suffer from learning difficulties.
- Using follow-up programs to help students with special needs.
- Helping students to succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally.
- Assisting students toward self-directed learning and normalization.
- Creating safe, healthy, and supportive learning environments that strengthen connections between home, school, and the community for all students
- Providing counseling, instruction, and mentoring for those struggling with social, emotional, and behavioral problems.
- Increasing achievement by assessing barriers to learning and determining the best instructional strategies to improve learning.
- Promoting wellness and resilience by reinforcing communication and social skills, problem solving, anger management, self-regulation, self-determination, and optimism.
- Enhance understanding and acceptance of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
- Identify and resolve academic barriers to learning.
- Designing and implementing student progress monitoring systems.
- Designing and implementing academic and behavioral interventions.
- Support effective individualized instruction.
- Creating positive classroom environments
- Teaching students from grade one till grade six.
- Planning, preparing and presenting lessons that cater for the needs of the whole ability range within the class.
- Organizing and taking part in school events and activities.
- Responsible for all the functions of the examinations and the control.
- Teaching all areas of the primary curriculum.
- Taking responsibility for the progress of a class of primary-age pupils.
- Organizing the classroom and learning resources.
- Creating displays to encourage a positive learning environment planning, preparing and presenting lessons.
- Motivating pupils with enthusiastic, imaginative presentation.
- Maintaining discipline.
- Preparing and marking work to facilitate positive pupil development.
- Meeting requirements for the assessment of pupils' development.
- Providing feedback to parents.
- Working with others to plan and coordinate work;
- Keeping up to date with changes and developments in the structure of the curriculum.
Cache 5, Diploma in Leadership in Children and Young Person’s Services (Management Pathway), Knowledge Village, Dubai UAE March, 2016.
Bachelor of Arts, Department of Psychology (1994)
