Associate Division Head, Secondary Division

Associate Division Heads are Avenues leaders dedicated to directly supporting the success, growth and impact of our talented, diverse, and world-wise faculty. Avenues seeks a daring, future-wise educator, whose personal mission aligns with ours, to join us as an Associate Division Head. The ADH will join a talented leadership team who ensure that the Avenues secondary division is an extraordinarily engaging place to work, a laboratory of deeper learning for all, and a thriving community.

Responsibilities

Ensure and support faculty success; Nurture teachers' engagement; Support teachers' impact; Be a divisional and organizational leader, serving in a leadership team with shared ownership for the success of the division and of Avenues as a whole; Enable innovation, by nurturing an environment in which faculty take risks and improve on existing practices; Drive deep student learning, guiding faculty to create transformative learning experiences, while meeting each student's individual needs; Nurture a thriving culture of trust, learning and shared purpose among the whole community of adults and students; Help build exceptional teams of faculty through effective managing, coaching, feedback, hiring and assessing faculty growth and impact; Collaborate intensively with diverse colleagues such as deans, faculty, other ADHs, and others to effectively support Avenues students, parents, and school community; Lead projects, take on new challenges, and be an "all-in" leader committed to create a New School of Thought

Requirements

People management ability, to lead teams in which teachers are engaged in their work, constantly growing and accomplishing great things together; Instructional leadership skills, to guide teachers to grow in their teaching and create deeper learning for students; Superb ability as a teacher, and a deep understanding of high-quality instruction in grades 6-12; A missionary zeal for transforming education, and for changing the world through it; An innovative, problem-solving approach, including in ambiguous situations that require figuring out new solutions rather than following established paths; Intellectual curiosity and mindset of continuous learning and growth; Skillful at working across lines of difference in an intercultural team

Nice to have

Expertise in inquiry-driven and interdisciplinary project based learning is a great asset; STEM-related content expertise is preferred

Benefits

Competitive compensation; Generous benefits package