Recruitment Manager
Quality Education Holding Company
Total years of experience :20 years, 6 Months
Leading a small team of recruiters in advertising current projects, searching for and interviewing suitable candidates, and making appointment recommendations; maintaining the recruitment aspects of the company recruitment portal and ensuring correct documentation has been provided; timely communication with candidates and project managers.
July 2013 - present: Al Tarbiyah Al Namouthajiyah Schools
General Manager of the international school in Riyadh
• Recruitment of teaching staff
* Development of curriculum, supporting documents and resources, and academic plan (Grades 1 - 12)
• Assessment plans for grades 1 - 12
• Teacher training and supervision of teaching and learning
• Quality assurance of assessment
• Creation and development of policies and procedures
• Creation and development of staff, student and parent handbooks
• Preparing the school for accreditation through AdvancED
• Piloting Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests
• Regular liaison with school leaders for consistency of approach and continual improvement
• Producing calendar of events
• Reporting to the CEO regularly and on pertinent matters as they arise.
Based at Kingdom Schools (girls' international secondary school) in Riyadh
• Liaising with and mentoring the principal; mentoring curriculum leaders
• Establishing budgets for school programs
• Weekly training of all teachers in the building
• Coaching math, science, English and social studies teachers, including observing lessons and providing feedback on same
• Monitoring planning documents
• Staff appraisals and reporting on teacher performance
• Recruitment
• Liaising with other stages of the school to ensure overall school improvement.
Working in a girls' high school (Grades 10 - 12) in Abu Dhabi
• Mentoring, coaching and training teachers in planning and pedagogy; implementing the new curriculum and assessment frameworks; improving numeracy
• Working with colleagues to prepare materials for teaching and assessment
• Co- and team-teaching; observing lessons and giving appropriate feedback; reporting on teacher performance
• Providing regular reports on relevant school matters
• Liaising with other advisors in the school
• Working with school administration to improve learning environments.
Teacher of English (Grades 7 - 10).
August 2007 - May 2008: Abu Dhabi Education Council
Education Advisor (Mathematics) in a model school (grades 6 - 9)
Duties were similar to those in my position with SIP with the addition of designing and delivering ESL lessons for teachers.
Teaching mathematics (Grades 6 - 11), science (Grade 7) and ICT (Grade 7);
* Grade 7 math team leader;
• training two teams competing at the Maths Olympiad, Beijing, in November 2006;
• teaching MYP Theory of Knowledge lesson and assisting in English classes;
Head of House
Working mainly in Junior High Schools in the city of Okayama, I taught EFL full-time. I had occasional additional duties teaching adults and children in KG and Elementary as well as some cultural exchange visits.
I taught full-time, divided between two schools: one Hauptschule and one Bundesgymnasium. I taught at all secondary school levels, using mainly games and songs with the younger students, and speeches and analysis with the oldest students. In addition to this I had a special project with a Polish girl who spoke no English or German, and was able to accelerate her learning.
2005 China-TEFL Certificate
2005 International TEFL Diploma
1998 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Sec) in Mathematics and German
1991 MA (Hons.) in German at II-i