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The Strategic Inclusion Coordinator will report to the Strategic Inclusion Lead and will work will colleagues across the School to support Highgate’s long-term Strategic Inclusion aim and objectives. This role will suit someone with an interest in inclusion and in making a demonstrable impact for the School; it will also provide opportunities for professional (cross-sector) skills development in inclusion. This coordinator role is a School-wide role and is primarily (though not solely) focused on the activities that are colleague/adult/organisation-facing.
SIC responsibilities will include:
Operational
- To co-ordinate activities that embed inclusion into roles and departments across the school.
- To co-ordinate and develop Highgate School inclusion partnerships (i.e., Inclusive Employers corporate membership, ACEN etc.)
- To co-ordinate, in partnership with the Strategic Inclusion Lead, termly Strategic Inclusion meetings.
- To co-ordinate the administrative inclusion activities (e.g. SOCS calendar entries) and to keep abreast of national inclusion initiatives
- To work with the Strategic Inclusion Lead, HR and People team, and others to ensure inclusion related policy and procedures and up-to-date and easily adoptable by staff.
- To help track and monitor the impact and effectiveness of the inclusion work
- To support the work of the Strategic Inclusion Lead to achieve the School’s inclusion objectives
Training and Professional Development
- To attend relevant inclusion training or conferences and coordinate the dissemination of best inclusion practice from across the School, and from external sources to the School.
- To maintain an up-to-date log of staff attendance at inclusion-related training, webinars, and conferences.
- To function as staff expert for some inclusion areas (training is available for this).
- To maintain an up-to-date log of staff attendance at inclusion-related training, webinars, and conferences.
Communications
- To provide inclusion materials and updates for the different stakeholders via the different platforms e.g. staff internal, website, School Post letters, displays, social media and internal digital comms
- To work in partnership with staff to share best inclusion practice (i.e. inset sessions, meetings, newsletter comms etc)- this will include periodic sharing with Junior School and Pre-Prep as appropriate.
- To co-ordinate and support parent inclusion spaces and parent comms and updates re: inclusion (i.e., maintaining and updating Parent Portal)
- To co-author the termly inclusion newsletters – gathering examples of exciting projects, curriculum content, assemblies, displays and initiatives to share with colleagues across the School.
