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The Canadian Academy of Libya (CAL) is a private school in Libya, established in 2012. It is the first and currently only private school in Libya that provides a primarily Ontario-based curriculum. The school is situated in the Seraj area of Tripoli, within a lush setting featuring extensive outdoor play areas encompassing more than 9,000 square meters.

Our educational philosophy is based on providing a blend of the best of Western and Libyan educational practice. Our curriculum features comprehensive study in both English and Arabic, supplemented by French, right from Kindergarten through Grade 5. Our core courses also include Mathematics, Science, and Canadian Social Studies, along with Libyan History, Culture, and Religion. Other courses in the program include Art, Music, Physical Education, and ICT.

Our students are primarily Libyan nationals, with some international students from different nationalities, including Canada. Our students enter CAL with varied English abilities, ranging from beginning to intermediate.

We take particular care to provide a safe environment where children are free to develop their individual voice and creativity. CAL strives to maintain class sizes between 10-15 students, and a teacher student ratio between 1:5 to 1:10, ensuring that all larger class sizes have both a teacher and assistant. The CAL school day runs from 8:00am to 2:15pm, Sunday through Thursday.

With the Academic Year set to begin on September 15th 2013, we are currently recruiting for a variety of positions. Typically, our staff fall into one of the placement categories detailed below.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply directly by email, submitting their CV with a cover letter to staff@canadian.ly. We provide above average compensation & opportunities for professional development to the right candidates, with preference given to dual Libyan-Western Nationals (especially Libyan-Canadian, Libyan-American, and Libyan-British Nationals) with relevant qualifications and experience. Further special consideration is given to teachers specialised in relevant disciplines, such as Arabic, French, Physical Education, Music, etc. CAL is an equal opportunity employer, hiring without consideration to race, creed, color, age, marital status, etc.

General Summary: Oversees the ongoing operations of the school, in conjunction with the Principal. Ensures implementation of academic goals in conjunction with CAL strategy and ensuring satisfaction of key stakeholders: students, parents, staff, management, and ownership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. School start-up and growth: Creates a detailed start-up checklist and ordering list to ensure that the school starts each year prepared and fully stocked.
2. Facility: Manages and oversees the school’s physical condition.
3. Technology: Works with IT Manager to ensure that the school has a fully functioning technology infrastructure, including computer labs, connectivity, and security.
4. Student Information: Manages student information database system and generates reports as needed.
5. Food and Transportation Services: Manages food and transportation services.
6. Regulation and Reporting: Ensures school-wide compliance with health and safety laws, charter contracts, Department of Free Education mandates, teacher certification, and all government workplace regulations.
7. Payroll: Works with Accounting & Finance to ensure that school-based employees receive payroll and benefits in timely and accurate manner.
8. Financials: Works with Accounting & Finance to create and oversee the school’s budget, finances, and relationships with outside vendors.
9. Scheduling: Works with appropriate staff to construct advisory and class rosters; creates and manages teacher, student, and classroom schedules.
10. External Relations and Development: Manages relationships with all outside organizations and leads the school’s efforts to partner with community leaders and organizations; Manages visitor programs.
11. Student Recruitment: Maintains thorough list of pre-kindergarten programs and community organizations with which to correspond regarding student recruitment; tracks student admission applications and maintains watch-list.
12. Manages the Office Manager and staffs the main office when Admin Manager is unavailable o not present, and ensures the smooth operation of the main office, including mailings, attendance reporting, office machine maintenance, etc.
13. Coordinates with Principal to ensure smooth operations, identify needs, and facilitate flow of information.
14. Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

Head Teacher (Group Subsets: KG, Grades 1-3, Grades 4-5)

General Summary: CAL’s concept of a Head Teacher is conceptually slightly different. At CAL, the Head Teacher is first and foremost a Teacher, with specific teaching responsibilities that may be reviewed in the Job Description for a Teacher (below). In addition to these responsibilities, the Head Teacher has the added primary role of providing effective, dynamic, and inspirational leadership in order that every child is able to fulfill their true potential. This added responsibility encompasses the following three characteristics:

1. To lead and manage the relevant subset of the school (learning and teaching)

2. To ensure the achievement of excellent educational standards (management)

3. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children (safety and environment)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (in addition to responsibilities as a Teacher):

1. Learning and Teaching:

- In conjunction with the Principal and Deputy Principal, to develop and implement a curriculum which reflects current approaches to effective teaching and learning.

- Ensure all teachers within their group subset work effectively with children for the full duration of the school day.

- Promote creativity, innovation and the use of appropriate new technologies to achieve excellence.

- Motivate and lead all staff in group subset to achieve the highest possible standards.

2. Management:

- Provide professional leadership to group subset.

- Initiate, facilitate, and evaluate appraisal with all team members, and display a commitment to ongoing professional development.

- Lead effective conflict resolution, in collaboration with Principal/Deputy Principal.

- Maintain effective communication with teachers and parents, including Notice Boards, etc.

3. Safety and Environment

- Manage cleaning staff to ensure that group subset facilities are neat and tidy and presentable at all times.

- Fire and safety drills demonstrated and practiced monthly.

- Parents and Principal/Deputy Principal informed of all accidents to children.

- Ensure that culturally appropriate practices are adopted whenever possible.

General Summary: Teachers are the essence of the work of the school. Each teacher is responsible for the education of the students in his/her class. In addition, it is the role of each teacher to be sure that all students are safe, secure and properly supervised at all times.

Functions:

- To support the ideals and policies of CAL and implement the school’s philosophy and objectives.

- To assume responsibilities for the education of the students in his/her class.

- To develop the content of courses in relation to the school’s philosophy, objectives and appropriate recognized programs.

- To assist in ensuring the safety of all children in the school and intervene if conflict should arise between any students.

Responsibilities:

- To teach the classes assigned & to undertake other duties as assigned.

- To be informed about the aims and curriculum of the area in which he/she teaches.

- In the light of these aims and curricula, to select the lesson content and activities which are appropriate to the needs of each student, in relation to the school’s philosophy and objectives.

- To maintain records of work covered.

- To correct regularly and promptly all assignments completed by students.

- To keep accurate complete records of the progress of each student.

- To inform parents of students’ progress by way of report cards and, where necessary, letters or individual meetings.

- To be available for all parent-teacher conferences.

- To attend all relevant meetings, including planning meetings.

- To submit to the Vice Principal copies of all letters sent to parents.

- To keep informed, by way of personal files, of all factors relevant to each student.

- To be familiar with new developments and methods in the teaching of his/her field.

- To ensure appropriate behavior of students in class and around the school.

- To keep Vice Principal informed about student absence, lateness or discipline problems.

- To maintain inventories of all textbooks and materials issued to students and to ensure return.

- To care for the classroom - to ensure that the room is attractively decorated and conducive to learning.

The ideal candidate for a teaching position with CAL will exhibit the following characteristics:

- A deep caring about students and commitment to the teaching profession and ethics.

- A demonstrated cultural understanding based on respect and a desire to work in Libya.

- A sense of adventure and an interest in contributing to the success of CAL.

- A well balanced, flexible and adaptable nature.

- A good role model for students and colleagues, demonstrating high personal and ethical standards at all times.

- Professionalism at school and within the community, as fitting for a teacher at an academically oriented private school in Libya.

General Summary: Assistant Teachers share responsibility of larger classes (between 10-20 students) with the class Teachers. Assistant Teachers are required to work collaboratively with Teachers, family members, and other staff to achieve positive outcomes for children of all abilities.

Core Competencies and Functions:

- Assist Teacher in providing students with a nurturing, safe, and healthy environment to help them develop socially, intellectually, physically, and emotionally in a manner appropriate to their age and stage of development in relationship to the overall goal of social competency.

- Assist Teacher with implementation of the Curriculum.

- Good interpersonal skills.

- Basic knowledge of child development including typical and atypical language, cognitive, motor, social, and self-help skills development.

- Ensure records on children and families are current, complete, and kept confidential.

- Ensure all required reports are completed accurately and in a timely manner as per Management request.

- Propensity for problem solving.

- Ability to relate to families in a holistic fashion that incorporates education, social services, health and nutrition, and family issues.

- Experience working with groups and/or families from diverse cultural, economic, and ethnic backgrounds and must have knowledge of and sensitivity to the educational and socioeconomic needs of children and families in Libya.

- Knowledge of community resources to support appropriate referrals.

- Willingness to comply with the established agency performance standards which may include: productivity/personal responsibility, embracing a team player orientation, and maintaining a professional demeanor.

- Demonstrate self-motivation, continual learning, and taking initiative.

- Practice professional and effective interpersonal communication skills.

- Nurturing character that enables the building of a respectful, trusting, loving relationship with children and their families.

- Ethical and professional conduct that enables the building of a respectful, trusting, and collaborative relationship with other CAL staff.

- Modeling of appropriate behavior for children, parents, and other staff.

- Ability to be responsible for the completion of assigned tasks and projects.

- Ability to understand the importance of family information and to keep it confidential.

- Perform other duties as required.

General Summary: This important position is vital to the continued written and oral fluency with the English language. The primary goal is to support and supplement the work and activities of the morning classes. The afternoon class will be made up of different age ranges and varying stages of Englishlanguage fluency.

The afternoon session runs from 2:30pm to 4:30pm Sunday through Thursday.

Responsibilities

1. Writing and Grammar

Writing skills are a key to effective communication. Depending on the student’s needs, prompting students to write compositions or essays – or simply teaching the basics of sentence composition – may be a big part of the duties. Since the English language can be particularly difficult to master – especially for students whose first language is not English – the Teacher may spend a great deal of time teaching proper grammar.

2. Reading

Help students polish their reading skills. This can include helping students fully comprehend the content of written passages, or having student read aloud to help with oral communication skills. Teacher may assign students reading homework to be reviewed during the next session.

3. Speaking

Students may come to the Teacher simply to have someone with whom they can practice their speaking skills. Many students live in communities in which there is limited interaction in English, or the student may simply require a bit more confidence about using their limited English. The Teacher will converse with the student, and make corrections and recommendations as appropriate.

Overriding Requirement

The goal of the afternoon session is to help students improve their proficiency with English. The objective for the Afternoon Teacher is to facilitate this in fun, creative ways. After a long day of class work and activities, students may respond less well to structured language lessons in the afternoon. The idea is to plan and prepare daily sessions, in conjunction with the Vice Principal and Teachers, which engage the student both consciously and subconsciously. This may also involve play & outdoor activities.