Human Resources

BUSINESS REPORT

HUMAN RESOURCES

The College has significant business operations. This section of the report provides an overview of staff and student recruitment through Human Resources and Admissions, as well as Finance and the UWCSEA Foundation for the 2020/2021 school year.

UWCSEA’s ambition is to be a leader in international education, with a worldwide reputation for providing a challenging, holistic, values-based education. The recruitment and retention of excellent teachers, and administration and operational teams who can support the mission of the College remains central to this vision.

STAFFING

530

Administrative and Support staff at the College

Educational support 24.1% Administration and Operations 21.4% Boarding support 1.6% Foundation 0.6% Management 0.5%

1,098

UWCSEA staff

568

Teaching staff at the College

44.9% full-time teachers 6.8% part-time teachers

Student teacher ratio across College

10.3 students : 1 teacher

STAFFING RECRUITMENT

194

Educational support, adminstrative and operations posts

8.7% Dual campus roles 62.8% Single campus roles

309

Posts advertised

115

Teaching posts

3,243

Educational support, adminstrative and operations applications

38.5%

Average number of applications per vacancy

16.7 8,413

Applications received

5,170

Teaching applications

61.5%

45

Average number of applications per vacancy

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT: REFINING RECRUITMENT FOR DIVERSITY

The changes implemented for the 2020/2021 hiring cycle become more granular as the data collection and systems changes were implemented to provide the College with baseline data on current staff, and to collect data from applicants which can be used to measure progress over time. This included a review of the data collected in the staff application form and implementation of anonymous diversity-linked data collection from all applicants, together with a College-wide staff survey to provide benchmark data.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

The College’s focus on professional learning and development continued in the 2020/2021 year, organised by the professional Learning and Development team.

Onsite training opportunities including professional learning days for teachers, with strategy linked whole-school and department based learning based on prioritised needs for each campus.

During the year, in response to the needs of the educational support, administrative and operations staff, ‘PD Fests’ were implemented during the holiday breaks, with staff able to select, in consultation with their line manager, from a number of skill and competency based training options raining from one hour to two or three days. Many of these courses were led by internal peers; others were sourced from external consultants. These courses included soft skills (communication, critical thinking, creativity, team building), First Aid, IT, Health, Safety and Compliance, Leadership, Further Education and other job specialist courses.

Individual training applications processed

882

Number of UWCSEA staff who led training for colleagues

497 Unique participants in external training courses

272 Number of UWCSEA staff participated in UWCSEA-run training12

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT: UPSKILLING INTERNALLY

Linked to the Our Strength and Capacity strand of the UWCSEA Strategy 2018-2023, as a key enabler for bringing about the necessary development across the other the strands, the process of bringing in house the capacity to deliver a number of leadership and staff development courses was accelerated by the necessity of COVID which meant no external experts could visit the College to provide on site training.

In the 2020/2021 school year delivery of several key programmes, including the long-running Middle Leaders Development Course and the recently adopted Unconscious Bias and Courageous First Steps workshops were bought in house as a model for future learning. The decision to do so enabled the College to contextualise the workshops for the UWCSEA community and bring skills and capacity to leaders across the College while also providing more opportunities for staff to participate in the learning opportunities which are foundational to the professional development of all staff.