Deputy Principal – Ethical Digital Fluency & Safeguarding

Aotearoa Infinite Academy; Auckland; Sur place; NZD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aotearoa Infinite Academy in New Zealand seeks a Deputy Principal to lead Ethical Digital Fluency and Safeguarding across Years 7-15 and wharekura. The role combines leadership with teaching responsibilities and a focus on online safety, privacy, and responsible AI use.

As part of the senior leadership expansion, you will shape digital citizenship strategies, coordinate safeguarding initiatives, and guide staff training while welcoming Year 9 students to our online charter school community.

Qualifications

• Includes a teaching component.
• Lead digital citizenship and AI-use guidelines.
• Oversee safeguarding with staff training and processes.

Responsabilités

• Digital citizenship and AI: Set our AI-use guidelines and acceptable use agreements.
• Safeguarding: Be our child protection lead, managing disclosures, procedures and staff training.
• Online incidents: Respond to cyberbullying and harmful digital communications, liaise with Netsafe and partners, design proactive programmes to reduce cyber issues.
• Privacy and student data: Vet platforms with IT to ensure Privacy Act compliance.
• Learning platforms: Oversee safe student use of LMS and learning platforms with IT.
• Community education: Run online safety evenings for whānau and staff.
• Year 9 pastoral: Lead transition from contributing schools, orientation, dean management and cohort attendance follow-up and strategies.

Connaissances

Digital citizenship

Online safety

AI governance

Child protection

Description du poste

Deputy Principal - Ethical Digital Fluency & Safeguarding

Full time, Permanent

Secondary (Years 7-15) / wharekura, Deputy principal
English, Health and physical education, Learning languages, Mathematics and statistics, Science, Social sciences, Technology, Te reo Māori, The arts

Keep our learners safe and help them use technology, including AI, wisely. 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 a HOW role: in a school where learning happens online, you'll lead digital citizenship, online safety and child protection, and welcome our new Year 9 students.

• Includes a teaching component
• Start: Term 1 2027

What you'll lead

• Digital citizenship and AI. Set our AI-use guidelines and acceptable use agreements.
• Safeguarding. Be our child protection lead, managing disclosures, procedures and staff training.
• Online incidents. Respond to any cyberbullying and harmful digital communications, liaise with Netsafe and other partners. Use data to design pro-active programmes in order to reduce and eliminate cyber issues.
• Privacy and student data. Work with IT Manager to vet platforms and ensure Privacy Act compliance.
• Learning platforms. From a safeguarding perspective, collaborate with DP Curriculum, to oversee the safe student use of the LMS and learning platforms with IT.
• Community education. Run online safety evenings for whānau and staff.
• Year 9 pastoral. Lead transition from contributing schools, orientation, dean management and cohort attendance follow-up and strategies.

*please note this is not exhaustive and may be subject to change

Type: Secondary (Year 9-15)
Authority: Charter School
Gender: Co-Ed
Decile: 0
Roll: 0
Website:

Physical address:
18 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland Central, Auckland