Deputy Principal – High Standards Learner Experience

Aotearoa Infinite Academy; Gisborne; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Aotearoa Infinite Academy, New Zealand's first online charter school, is expanding its senior leadership by hiring a Deputy Principal – High Standards Learner Experience. In this full-time, permanent role, you will lead attendance, engagement, and data-driven school-wide initiatives to ensure every learner can access, attend, and thrive in our online school.

You'll coordinate learning support across SENCO, ESOL, IEPs and ORS, build strong interagency partnerships, and report to the Board on

Responsibilities

• Lead attendance and engagement strategy across the school and board reporting.
• Chair weekly Student Support meeting and oversee plans, reviews and escalation.
• Oversee SENCO, ESOL, IEPs, ORS and RTLB timetables.
• Act as a key interagency link with Oranga Tamariki, health, youth services.
• Lead enrichment programmes and access for priority and disengaged learners.
• Lead restorative practice, discipline procedures and behaviour data.
• Prepare termly board reports on attendance, engagement and learning support.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Data dashboards

Policy development

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Deputy Principal – High Standards Learner Experience

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

Every learner, every day, known and supported. 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.

What you'll lead * please note this is not exhaustive and may be subject to change

• Attendance and engagement, schoolwide. You're our lead DP for strategy, systems, data and Board reporting. You'll own the policy, codes, dashboards and intervention tiers, and work with pastoral DPs who follow up their year levels.
• Student support and case management. Chair the weekly Student Support meeting and oversee individual plans, reviews and escalation of persistent non-attenders.
• Learning support. Oversee our SENCO, ESOL, IEPs, ORS and RTLB applications, and learning assistant timetables.
• Interagency work. Be the school's key link with Oranga Tamariki, RTLB, health, counselling and Youth Services.
• Enrichment and access. Lead GATE and enrichment programmes, and open doors for priority and disengaged learners.
• Behaviour. Lead restorative practice, stand-down and suspension procedures, and behaviour data.
• Board reporting. Report termly on attendance, engagement and learning support.

Type: Secondary (Year 9-15)
Authority: Charter School
Gender: Co-Ed
Decile: 0
Roll: 0
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Physical address:
18 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland Central, Auckland