Deputy Principal – High Standards Learner Experience

Crimson Academies

1d • Remote

About The Position

Aotearoa Infinite Academy, New Zealand's first online charter school, is a thriving community growing to 2,000 students in 2027. To bring our goals for our learners to life, we're expanding our senior leadership team from two to six Deputy Principals, each leading a strategic portfolio shaped by the Golden Circle. This is the WHY role: the portfolio at the centre of everything we do. You'll make sure every student can access, attend and thrive in our online school. This is a permanent, full-time role with a teaching component and includes a start in Term 1, 2027.

Requirements

• A registered teacher with a full practising certificate.
• Proven middle or senior leadership in pastoral care, learning support or student services.
• Data-confident: ability to turn attendance and engagement numbers into clear actions and Board-ready reports.
• Calm and warm with young people and whānau in difficult moments, and firm on process.
• Experienced working with outside agencies and across staff teams.
• Committed to equity.
• Committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi in how we support learners.

Nice To Haves

• Loyal to our vision.
• Passionate about doing things differently.
• Hard-working.
• Unafraid of change and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Attendance and engagement, schoolwide.
• Strategy, systems, data and Board reporting for attendance and engagement.
• Owning policy, codes, dashboards and intervention tiers for attendance and engagement.
• Student support and case management, including chairing the weekly Student Support meeting and overseeing individual plans, reviews and escalation of persistent non-attenders.
• Learning support, including overseeing SENCO, ESOL, IEPs, ORS and RTLB applications, and learning assistant timetables.
• Interagency work, acting as the school's key link with Oranga Tamariki, RTLB, health, counselling and Youth Services.
• Enrichment and access, leading GATE and enrichment programmes, and opening doors for priority and disengaged learners.
• Behaviour management, including leading restorative practice, stand-down and suspension procedures, and behaviour data.
• Board reporting on attendance, engagement and learning support.
• Reporting termly on attendance, engagement and learning support.
• Line-managing portfolio leaders.
• Contributing to staff PLD.
• Sharing the duty roster.

Benefits

• Newly created role in an expanded, collaborative leadership team.
• Thriving, fast-growing school.
• Teaching component that keeps you connected to learners.
• Competitive remuneration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed