Employment

Open Position: Facility Manager (m/f)

Location: Zagreb 

Performance Responsibilities:

• Plans, directs and, through subordinates and external companies, supervises facility management services including building and facility operating systems maintenance, repair and improvement, custodial services and security operations; reviews and evaluates current operating procedures and personnel practices and establishes procedures, practice and priorities in keeping with effective operations and cost factors; coordinates building and maintenance activities within the division and with other divisions and departments to obtain optimum school’s function and utilization of personnel and equipment. 
• Recommends operating methods and equipment to maximize cost savings, service quality and safety. 
• Establishes and enforces operating and safety standards and procedures for maintenance services and repair in line with the goals and objectives of the School Board and relevant local legal regulations; gives direction, resolves problems, prepares work schedules and sets deadlines to ensure completion of services
• Supervises, trains, and evaluates staff directly and through subordinate supervisors/lead workers 
• Procurement of instructional supplies, materials and equipment for the school operation in line with sound business practices and School Board policies.
• Administer all contracts for the school with outside vendors, contractors, leasing arrangements
• Involved in the day to day activities which ensure all educational activities run smoothly
• Follow and implement all school policies and procedures as outlined in the School Board Policy Manual, the Business Office Procedures Manual and the Faculty Handbook.
• Other duties as assigned by the Business and Operations manager

Qualifications: 

• University degree at relevant technical university, preferably Machine engineer
• At least five years of facilities maintenance and operations experience that included some project/program budget preparation and monitoring 
• Engineering experience with plants and machines preferably in a service industry (i.e. hotel, hospital…)
• Knowledge of technology and computer applications for Smart Building Systems and A+ energy rating building
• Ability to plan, organize and manage building operational services
• Flexible person with “can do” attitude
• Team player
• Microsoft Office 
• Verbal and written communication skills in English and Croatian
• Valid Driver’s License (B)

If you are interested in this position, please send your Curriculum Vitae in English by 22 September 2019 to employment@aisz.hr

• Bachelor of Education (or equivalent 4-year degree) and or teaching credential in the area of teaching. Specialty qualification for any specialist position mandatory
• Advanced degree preferred
• Minimum three years of experience in accredited schools preferably in an international or cross cultural context (student teaching and substituting not included)
• Native or near-native written and spoken English
• A belief in and experience with the positive nature of student inclusion and difference
• Ability to create a safe, caring classroom
• Experience and comfort integrating technology to promote learning
• Police clearance (for the vulnerable sector)
• In exceptional circumstances, an advanced degree, prior successful teaching record in an accredited international school and the ability to complete a recognised teaching qualification within a year part-time will be accepted as an entry level status.
• All successful candidates will be required to complete Child Protection and Safeguarding Training

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the region - and with the new campus and direction of the school - an exciting and dynamic place to work as well as a spectacular place to live.

If you are interested in joining our dedicated team and vibrant learning community please submit:

• Competitive compensation salary and benefits package for the region.
• A current curriculum vita
• A brief letter of introduction specifying strength and reason for interest in AISZ
• The name and contacts of two referees as well as the name and contact information for your current head of school/supervisor/staff member
• Statement of Suitability Form
• Combine all the above documents into a single PDF document and send it to employment@aisz.hr
• Use the following subject header in your email: AISZ, School Year - and the Position you are applying for (for example:"AISZ2018/2019 SY - Grade 4").

Contact email: employment@aisz.hr

Due to the high number of inquiries we receive every day in a variety of formats, we politely request that you follow the above application guidelines. Please do not apply to individual members of the school administration. Please kindly note that AISZ will not respond to unsolicited job applications.

A current curriculum vitae

• A brief letter of introduction specifying strength and reason for interest in AISZ
• The name and contacts of two referees as well as the name and contact information for your current head of school/supervisor/staff member
• Signed Statement of Suitability Form

Contact email: employment@aisz.hr

All learners, including teachers, should possess these dispositions:

Reflectiveness: being ready, willing and able to become more strategic about learning.

Meta-Learning: Being aware, and taking control of one's own learning. Having an awareness and understanding of the phenomenon of learning itself as opposed to subject knowledge.
Planning: Working out learning in advance and a strong ability to plan effectively.
Distilling: The ability to distill information in order to extract the essential meaning or most important aspects.
Revising: The ability to reconsider and alter practice or beliefs in the light of further evidence.

Reciprocity: being ready, willing and able to learn alone and with others.

Interdependence: The ability and desire to work interdependently.
Collaboration: Highly developed collaboration skills.
Empathy: A high degree of empathy and the ability to actively listen.
Imitation: The ability to recognise and imitate exemplars of practice and pick up others’ habits and values.

Resourcefulness: being ready, willing and able to learn in different ways.

Questioning: The ability and desire to inquire and seek answers.
Making Links: The capacity to recognise connections and make links to previous knowledge, concepts, practice and understandings in order to generate new ways of working.
Imagining: Being able to imagine a changed state and the multitude of hypotheses that can be generated from which to select a course of action or mentally rehearse something new.
Reasoning: Thinking rigorously and methodically.
Capitalising: The ability to make good use of resources.

Resilience: being ready, willing and able to lock on to learning.

Absorption: The ability and desire to be rapt in learning; to be absorbed in one’s own learning / work and to bring this “flow” to teaching students.
Managing Distractions: A strong capacity to manage distractions and set priorities.
Noticing: Really sensing what is out there and taking notice of what is possible
Perseverance: The ability to persevere as learning happens and recognising that learning can be hard work.

*Guy Claxton: Building Learning Power

AISZ takes Child Safeguarding very seriously. All candidates are expected to have read AISZ’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures Handbook and to submit a Statement of Suitability as part of their application documentation. Successful candidates will be required to provide Police Clearance Certificates from their home country and last place of employment, and will also be subjected to an annual criminal background / sex offender registry check by an external agency.

Please sign the Statement of Suitability Form and send it with rest of documents.