Regional Learning Director

Job Description

Regional Learning Director

Role Profile

As Regional Learning Director, you own and continuously improve the learning offer across ISP Malaysia schools, ensuring strong student outcomes and a differentiated, competitive product. Lead delivery of the ISP Learning & Innovation Strategy by embedding quality, strengthening the offer, and building leadership capability across the region.

About ISP Malaysia

ISP Malaysia operates nine schools across Klang Valley, Perak, Penang and Johor under Tenby, Asia Pacific and Straits International Schools, educating over 8,000 students.

Part of the global ISP group (120+ schools), we deliver international and Malaysian curricula with a strong focus on quality and outcomes. Our core learning pillars are Academic Achievements, Multilinguism, Life Competencies, Future Pathways and International Learning Opportunities (“ILOS”).

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibility 1 – Learning Quality & Strategy

• Lead delivery of ISP’s Learning & Innovation Strategy across all schools.
• Champion ISP's Learning.First. Framework and Learning Improvement Process (“LIP”) to embed quality across every school in the region.
• Maintain clarity, consistency and pace of LIP priorities, avoiding unnecessary shifts and ensuring sustained focus on agreed improvement areas.
• Ensure a differentiated learning offer from Early Years to Pre-University that is fit for purpose, future-proof and competitively superior for students and parents for our international and national curricula.
  
  

Key Responsibility 2 – School Performance & Accountability

• Hold Heads and Senior Leaders accountable for learning outcomes, KPIs and improvement plans.
• Drive robust self-evaluation and delivery against ISP learning criteria and indicators.
• Ensure clear prioritised and high-impact initiatives, targets, disciplined execution and measurable in-year progress.
• Apply judgement to balance Group requirements with regional and individual school context, ensuring support is tailored to each school’s stage and priorities.
  
  

Key Responsibility 3 – Evidence & Improvement

• Lead the use of learning data (academic results, surveys, reviews) and ensure school-level learning data and dashboards are accurate, timely and used consistently to drive decision-making.
• Ensure consistent, accurate and actionable evidence of learning across all schools.
• Identify regional priorities and share best practice to improve performance.
• Challenge schools to evaluate evidence rigorously against the 47 indicators and progress from Beginning to Developing to Mastering.
  
  

Key Responsibility 4 – Leadership & Capability

• Coach and develop Heads and Senior Leaders to strengthen leadership of learning.
• Build leadership capability through ISP programmes, Learning Hub and targeted development.
• Support talent identification, succession planning, and leadership pipeline.
• Collaborate with Regional HR, RMD, and School Heads to identify potential future Heads and those needing support.
• Build a talent pool and succession plan for Senior Leaders.
• Provide targeted support to new Heads and leadership teams, particularly in readiness for Learning Reviews and early-stage LIP implementation.
• Ensure Pillar Leaders understand the practices behind their Learning Pillar and develop their use of the Pillar Roadmap to help schools self-evaluate their Pillar's impact on learning.
  
  

Key Responsibility 5 – Collaboration & Commercial Impact

• Partner with Marketing, Admissions and Retention to translate learning quality into enrolment growth and retention.
• Work with Regional and Group teams to align educational priorities with financial and growth targets and priorities.
• Build strong relationships across schools and ISP networks to share practice and drive consistency.
• Build deep understanding of each school’s context through regular in-school engagement, ensuring comparisons and challenge are fair, informed and credible.
  
  

Key Responsibility 6 – Reviews, Governance & Onboarding

• Lead and participate in ISP Learning Reviews to assess and improve school performance.
• Oversee onboarding and due diligence of new schools, ensuring rapid adoption of ISP standards.
• Ensure compliance with ISP frameworks, data standards and safeguarding expectations.
  
  

Success Measures

• School improvement progress (against ISP criteria).
• Leadership capability and succession readiness.
• Consistency of learning standards across schools.
• Differentiation / future-proofing of learning offer and experiences.
• Student outcomes (academic performance, value-add, multilinguism, future pathways, life competencies).
• Enrolment growth and retention (linked to learning quality).
  
  

Line Management

• The Regional Learning Director reports directly to the Regional Managing Director (RMD), with a dotted line to the Divisional Chief Learning Officer (DCLO) to deliver the L&I Strategy and KPIs.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive remuneration.
• A culture of engagement and trust, where staff contributions are recognised and valued.
• A passionate and motivated team of professionals who put children at the heart of decision-making.
• A peer network of like-minded colleagues and access to expertise, best practice sharing and learning opportunities across countries and cultures.
• A commitment to employee well-being.
• Career development opportunities.
• School fee discount for children of employees.
• Medical outpatient and insurance benefits.
• For international hires, we also offer pension fund contributions to an Employee Provident Fund (EPF) as well as flight and shipping benefits.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
  
  

ISP Leadership Competencies

You consistently demonstrate and role-model the ISP Leadership Competencies in all that you do.

Cognitive

• Strategic, commercial and financial acumen
• Understands education sector and what drives success
• Outcome-driven with strong a strong focus on results
• Shares our ambition and goals and champions desired change
• Delivers strategic outcomes by inspiring and motivating their team to work towards shared goals
• Demonstrates financial understanding when making decisions and taking action
• Keeps self and team organised and on track
• Creative Problem Solver
• Tackles challenges in an organized and systematic way and finds solutions
• Sees problems as opportunities to improve and better deliver against organisational priorities
• Creates a safe environment within team to encourage innovation and problem-solving
• Empowers team to apply creativity and flexibility to overcome challenges
• Identifies risks and creates and implements mitigation plans
  
  

Interpersonal

• Intentionally connects
• Supports, enables and inspires others to give their best
• Takes time to understand their team and personalise individual experiences
• A skilled identifier of talent who recognises the value of soft skills (emotional intelligence, drive, learnability etc.) as predictors of potential
• Focuses on people development through coaching and mentoring, sharing their experiences and insight
• Recognises and celebrates successes
• Collaborative & Communicative
• Develops and shares our collective vision
• Encourages collaboration and teamwork, making people feel like they are working and succeeding together
• Open-minded; actively listening and seeking and welcoming feedback
• Communicates honestly, transparently and with genuine care and empathy
• Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly and adjusts how they communicate to the person or situation
  
  

Self-Leadership

• Amazing learner
• Self-aware, humble and a good listener
• Manages their own personal development, focusing on continuous learning and getting better
• Is open about their own areas for development and encourages their team to be the same
• Builds a team with complementary skillsets to support them in areas where they are not so naturally-suited
• Curious; asks questions, explores and builds on ideas
• Resilient
• Practices self-care and encourages their team to do the same
• Uses inner strength when times are challenging or when working outside of their comfort zone
• Understands their own qualities, skills, emotions and triggers and uses this understanding to remain composed and confident in uncertainty
• Recovers positively from setbacks, using them as an opportunity
  
  

Digital

• Technologically literate
• Digital collaborator, who works effectively with technical specialists
• Stays up to date with the latest technology and trends and knows how these can be applied in their role
• Demonstrates an adaptive techmindset, constantly evolving their understanding and application of what is possible using tech
• Assesses the impact of new technologies for their role and the organisation
• Digital data fluent
• Effectively interprets digital data and uses it in decision-making
• Collects, shares and analyses evidence to demonstrate impact, make connections and set improvement targets
• Connects data from different digital sources to design, develop and implement action
• Simplifies complex digital data into clear and understandable information for different audiences
• Uses a mix of digital data, experiences, instinct and context to make decisions
  
  

Global

• Values-driven
• Role models the ISP Principles
• Prioritises wellbeing, inclusion and belonging and is caring, considerate and supportive of their team
• Demonstrates a multi-cultural mindset and respects the different values, behaviours, attitudes and practices across cultures
• Seeks different perspectives and integrates diversity of thought from team
• Sustainability-focused
• Considers the environmental and social impact of their decisions and finds ways to minimise these
• Uses their passion and credibility to challenge ways of thinking
• Advocates for policies and practices that support a more sustainable future
• Identifies inefficiencies and wastefulness and prioritises productive and balanced use of resources.
  
  

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding

and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.

Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.

ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.