Deputy Principal – Ethical Digital Fluency & Safeguarding

Aotearoa Infinite Academy; Canterbury; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aotearoa Infinite Academy, New Zealand's first online charter school, seeks a Deputy Principal for Ethical Digital Fluency & Safeguarding. This HOW role will lead digital citizenship and child protection as part of the senior leadership team.

You will work with our online learning environment to ensure privacy, safe AI use, and cyber safety, while supporting Year 9 transition and community education.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital citizenship and AI-use guidelines for learners and staff.
• Be the child protection lead, manage disclosures and staff training.
• Respond to cyberbullying and harmful online communications with partners.
• Vet platforms for Privacy Act compliance with IT Manager.
• Safeguard student data while LMS platforms are used.
• Run online safety evenings for whānau and staff.
• Lead Year 9 transition, orientation and attendance strategies.

Job description

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