Head of Primary School
Location: Ajah, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
Academic Leadership:
- Supervise teaching and learning across all primary classes.
- Ensure teachers follow the approved curriculum, schemes of work and lesson plans.
- Monitor pupils’ academic performance and organise interventions for struggling pupils.
- Review examination results and improve weak subject areas.
- Promote high standards in literacy, numeracy, science and other core subjects.
Teacher Management:
- Supervise primary school teachers and teaching assistants.
- Monitor attendance, punctuality, lesson preparation and classroom performance.
- Conduct classroom observations and provide feedback.
- Identify staff training and professional-development needs.
- Participate in teacher appraisal and performance management.
Pupil Management and Discipline:
- Maintain high standards of behaviour and discipline.
- Monitor pupils’ attendance and punctuality.
- Address behavioural, academic and welfare concerns.
- Ensure pupils are properly supervised during lessons, breaks and school activities.
- Encourage character development, leadership and good citizenship.
Parent Relations:
- Maintain effective communication with parents.
- Handle parent concerns and complaints relating to the primary section.
- Organise parent-teacher meetings.
- Provide parents with updates on pupils’ progress and behaviour.
- Work towards resolving parent concerns promptly and professionally.
School Operations:
- Coordinate the daily running of the primary school.
- Prepare timetables, duty rosters and activity schedules.
- Ensure classrooms and learning resources are properly maintained.
- Coordinate assemblies, examinations, excursions, competitions and special programmes.
Safeguarding and Welfare:
- Ensure child-protection and safeguarding procedures are followed.
- Monitor pupils’ health, safety and emotional wellbeing.
- Escalate serious safeguarding concerns to the appropriate school authority.
- Ensure safe arrival, dismissal and movement of pupils.
Quality Assurance:
- Inspect lesson notes, pupils’ books and teachers’ records.
- Monitor marking standards and quality of feedback.
- Ensure continuous assessment records are accurate.
- Track KPIs such as academic achievement, attendance, behaviour and teacher performance.
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications to: dcsmrecruit@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.