Position: Deputy Principal (Years 7–15) / Wharekura Subjects: English, Health and Physical Education, Learning Languages, Mathematics and Statistics, Science, Social Sciences, Technology, Te Reo Maori, The Arts Salary: 7MU + 1SMA We are seeking an educational leader with strong pedagogical understanding and pastoral care practices that enhance student wellbeing for success. You are a passionate person with excellent leadership, organisational, and interpersonal skills, along with a sense of humour. You will be a leader with vision, energy, an unrelenting focus on student achievement, and the ability to support the strategic and professional leadership of the college. As a valued member of staff, you will embrace our whanau-based philosophy, with a commitment to the co-curricular life of the college. We are a co-educational, modern learning organisation that offers a vibrant, innovative, and highly successful environment. Our forward-thinking education focuses on challenging, innovative, personalised learning within a whanau-based community, where learners are nurtured and inspired to achieve personal excellence. As global citizens, we embrace diversity, develop character and self-worth, and live our values of empathy, excellence, integrity, and respect. Key Capabilities: Strategic thinking: articulating and planning for change to improve outcomes. Pedagogical understanding: a deep understanding of learning and teaching, and the foundations of curriculum design and/or an understanding of pastoral care systems and processes that enhance student wellbeing for success. Assessment practice expertise: experience in assessment procedures that ensure quality assured assessment. Ability to interpret and make use of achievement or other data in order to lead targeted interventions to improve outcomes. Understanding of school-wide operations, e.g. involvement in or leadership of school-wide initiatives or processes. Ability to create a culture of trust and readiness for change by making sense of policy directions. Capability development: understanding the use of evidence (best practice), inquiry skills, adult learning, and social and communication skills. Managing complex change through leading collective inquiry focused on improving outcomes. Physical Address: 575 Chapel Road, Botany Downs, Auckland #J-18808-Ljbffr