Head of Senior School (City)

  Head of Senior School (City)

Join a collaborative and high-achieving team at Haileybury City as the Head of Senior School. This full-time, ongoing teaching role offers exceptional professional growth and enhanced career progression opportunities, starting on 1 January 2025.

Are you a visionary leader passionate about inspiring the next generation of students, leading brilliant educators and fostering an inclusive, dynamic school community? 

Haileybury is seeking an experienced, innovative, and empathetic Head of Senior School (City) to lead our senior students and staff with a firm commitment to academic excellence and character formation.

Main Duties:

• Oversee the daily management of staff and students at the Senior School, ensuring high academic and pastoral standards.
• Build strong community connections by organising events, conducting student interviews, and coordinating parent engagement.
• Collaborate with senior leadership on academic programs, staff development, and student discipline, while addressing concerns with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain school protocols, including student attendance, uniform standards, and facilitating student transitions between campuses.

About Haileybury:

Haileybury’s vision is to be recognised as a great world school. Our mission is to deliver an exceptional educational experience that fosters the growth of each student through leading teaching and learning programs, a wide array of opportunities, within a culture of high expectations, empowering students to excel.  

Everything that we do is centred around our Magenta Principles, striving to be more than a school. Our principles support and shape this in our daily work: 

• Every student matters every day 
• Every staff member matters every day  
• Effective practices support sustainability  
• One inclusive community

Haileybury offers a flexible, diverse, and inclusive workforce. We’re focused on embracing change and celebrating our people. 

Why work for us: 

• Competitive salary to compensate for experience 
• Ongoing professional and personal development  
• Focus on career development and a vast array of leadership opportunities 
• Excellent on-site facilities, grounds, technology and working environment 
• Secondment opportunities and pathways to other Melbourne based campus’, Haileybury Rendall School Darwin and Haileybury Senior School Tianjin 
• Variety of hybrid and flexible opportunities, including working at Haileybury Pangea, our online School  
• Broader scope of positions across multiple Melbourne campus locations 
• Employee leave benefits such as paid parental leave and additional personal leave  
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Various financial benefits to employees through discount partnership programs and salary packaging options 
• Additional support for teaching parents, with students at Haileybury
• Staff social groups and events  

Want to find out more? 

To view the position description, please click on the attachment below. For all enquiries, please contact the People and Culture Team via peopleandculture@haileybury.com.au  

To apply, please click on the “Apply Now” button to be directed to our online recruitment portal.  

Applications close: (10:00 am), Monday, 28 October 2024.

Please note that applicants must have the right to work in Australia, VIT Registration or Working with Children Check. 

Haileybury is committed to the protection of children and the promotion of a culturally safe and supportive working environment for diverse communities. The successful applicant will be required to satisfy child protection screening, and adhere at all times to the schools’ Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy, (https://www.haileybury.com.au/policies). 

Haileybury is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.