Associate Division Head, Secondary Division

WHAT YOULL DO

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. 

As Associate Division Head you will:

• Ensure and support faculty success: the teachers you lead feel deeply engaged and effectively supported to impact students develop professionally and thrive. 

• Nurture teachers engagement: faculty consistently feel trust connection belonging and clarity leading to a deep sense of engagement and fulfillment

• Support teachers impact: faculty produce transformational student learning while growing and developing professionally.

• 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 students 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

Qualifications :

ABOUT YOU

You bring all or most of the following:  

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

• 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 

Additional Information :

Avenues is deeply committed to diversity equity and inclusion throughout our organization. We strive to uphold a culture in which every colleague feels that they belong are trusted and are valued. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities or groups to apply. Avenues offers competitive compensation and a generous benefits package. 

Avenues upholds the highest standards for safeguarding the physical and emotional wellbeing of children. As an essential aspect of this commitment all offers are contingent upon successful completion of careful reference and background checks. 

Avenues is deeply committed to diversity equity and inclusion throughout our organization. We strive to uphold a culture in which every colleague feels that they belong are trusted and are valued. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities or groups to apply. Avenues offers competitive compensation and a generous benefits package. 

Avenues upholds the highest standards for safeguarding the physical and emotional wellbeing of children. As an essential aspect of this commitment all offers are contingent upon successful completion of careful reference and background checks. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time