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Job Description:
The Campus Principal is the pro-active leader who maintains administration and education standards to ensure success of a campus, reporting to the Coaching Manager. This position has full accountability for all aspects of ongoing business operations at a campus, including Spirit of Math, Spirit of English and Spirit of Technology campus operations (online and in-person).

Personal Qualities:
 An energetic, positive, pro-active person who likes to engage and mentor people. This confident person is highly competitive and enjoys mental challenges involving solving problems. They are a self-starter driven to make the best ideas a reality and appreciate a venturesome work environment. The ideal candidate can work well independently and with others. The individual should also excel at connecting with children by providing a balance of kindness and firmness while understanding the importance of providing children with a structured environment that will facilitate their learning. This individual should have Spirit of Math Core value:

  • We succeed together
  • We will cross the line
  • We bike the extra mile
  • We leave our ego at the door

Skills and Experience:

  • Leadership experience and a background in an education setting.
  • Proven management experience or relevant role for 2 or more years, preferably in the educational sector
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize projects and tasks
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Thorough understanding of diverse business processes and strategy development
  • Solid verbal and written skills
  • Mentoring and relationship building
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Excellent knowledge on MS Office

Work Values:

  • Mentoring People & Building Relationships
  • Influence Through Language & Ideas
  • World Class Standards
  • Professional Development
  • Independence and Initiative
  • Challenging, Diverse, and Evolving Environment
  • Accuracy
  • Making an Impact in the World
  • Developing Strong Teams and Communities
  • Competitive Environment
  • Leading by Example

Education:
A degree from a recognized college or university is required. A Bachelor of Education is an asset.

Responsibilities and Authorities:
The Campus Principal will report to the Coaching Manager of Spirit of Math and:

  • Overseeing day-to-day operations
  • Conducting regular performance reviews and ensuring staff compliance with KPIs and company standards
  • Reviewing and ensuring suitability of teaching curriculum and material
  • Monitoring and supporting student progress and achievements
  • Serving as a substitute teacher when necessary
  • Conducting student interviews to determine program suitability
  • Completing all administrative work related to payroll
  • Overseeing marketing campaigns and facilitating campus growth
  • Supporting staff talent development through mentorship and succession planning
  • Ensuring alignment of curriculum and staff methodology with company pedagogy
  • Managing budgets to achieve KPIs and financial objectives
  • Recruiting and hiring qualified staff
  • Training and supervising teaching staff
  • Provide the Finance department with monthly reports
  • Providing HR with required documents
  • Assisting teachers when dealing with student/parent concerns
  • Supporting the Campus Administrator and/or Vice Principal
  • Maintaining SoM business and educational standards

The Campus Principal has the following authorities:

  • Manage and oversee the day-to-day operations
  • Hiring, assigning tasks, evaluating, mentoring and deselecting Vice Principals, teachers, substitute teachers, administrative assistants and assistant teachers
  • Select and terminate Vice Principals, teachers, substitute teachers, administrative assistant and Assistant teachers
  • Interviewing, accepting and registering suitable students
  • Ensure any training that is needed for campus staff has been organized and followed through
  • Setting yearly campus class schedules
  • Oversee housekeeping and maintenance services
  • To address and resolve client inquiries and complaints
  • To train and supervise teaching staff, ensuring alignment with company’s educational standards and objectives
  • Open new classes as campus need

The Campus Principal has the following responsibilities:

  • Comply and maintain SoM brand and teaching standards
  • Comply to SoM policies and procedures
  • Plan and conduct summer camps,
  • Plan and conduct yearly campus events
  • Address any issues identified by parents and teachers in a professional and timely manner
  • Network with the community surrounding the campus
  • Maintain and provide all necessary campus and classroom resources and inventory for staff
  • Monitor the health and safety of personnel at campus
  • Maintain campus facilities to the brand standard compliance
  • Conduct Assistant Teacher training and assisting Teacher Training

Decision-Making Ability:
The campus Principal should have the capacity to achieve objectives that would take up to 2 years to execute.

Other:
Other duties as required for the business.

Company Core Values:
This person demonstrates the core values:
We succeed together.

  • We promote collaboration & cooperation (community)
  • We're not going to succeed in this world alone, how we work together is key.

We leave our ego at the door.

  • We all have something to learn and have the courage to say “I don’t know” or “I made a mistake”: to accept feedback and care enough about others to provide candid feedback to them.
  • We ask questions.

We will cross the line.

  • We have the courage and integrity to do what’s right for the right reason even when it is tough.
  • It’s about doing the right thing, even when it’s not easy or obvious.

We bike the extra mile.

  • We care, take ownership, take initiative and go beyond the basics to deliver on our mission.
  • It's about initiative and being willing to push for a solution when there isn't an easy answer, i.e., didn't have a car so used a bike

Reporting Manager:
Coaching Managers of Campus Operations, or other, as required for business needs

Job Type/FTE: (Fixed term/ permanent)

Permanent, 1.0 Full Time

Training Required:
FTM1, FTM2, Train the Trainer Program, Business Training

Travel Requirement:
Required to travel to different campuses up to 5 times a week.

Hours of Work:
Noon to 8:00PM up to 5 days a week.

To promote cooperation, inspire confidence, and release the genius in every child.

Spirit of Math is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to equitable hiring, employment and promotion practices. The positions are open to all qualified applicants, including men, women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons and other groups protected by human rights laws. We strive to meet the accommodation needs of persons with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs for accommodation known in advance during the application process.

About Spirit of Math Schools Inc.

Education
201-500

Thought leader, change maker and an authoritative voice in higher education.

Spirit of Math® Schools is a unique and exclusive after-school math enrichment program that provides challenging and advanced math classes and teaches problem solving, collaboration and critical thinking skills to high performing and gifted students from Kindergarten to grade 11. For more than 30 years, we've taken students from the top of the class, to the top of the world; with more than 10,000 students filling 40+ campuses across Canada, in the USA and in Pakistan. Our unique curriculum focuses on problem-solving strategies, logic and critical thinking to become the global standard of excellence in math education. Since 1992, our students have been consistently placed on national and international mathematics honour rolls and our alumni have obtained scholarships from some of North America's top universities.

The concept of teaching was originally developed by Charles Ledger, a Rene Descartes Foundation Medalist and winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching, along with Co-Founder, Gwen Ledger, Kim Langen, CEO and Co-Founder of Spirit of Math Schools Inc., extended her father's teaching concept from an after-school class in her basement to a full 39 week curriculum for grades Kindergarten to 11. All Spirit of Math teachers are university graduates who complete a comprehensive Fundamentals of Teaching Mathematics Course program and participate in ongoing professional development.