Senior Leader

NetNZ; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NetNZ seeks an experienced educational leader to join its senior leadership team as a full-time senior leader. The role operates across a distributed online network of kura, driving strategic outcomes and operational momentum in partnership with another senior leader.

You will hold oversight across strategic domains, regional liaison responsibilities where relevant, and contribute to the leadership, strategy, and daily functioning of the network.

Qualifications

• Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic capability and sound professional judgement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort using asynchronous and synchronous online platforms and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior leadership team in a distributed, online environment across schools.
• Drive operational momentum and strategic outcomes across key domains.
• Oversee domains and act as regional liaison where relevant.
• Collaborate with the wider leadership and day-to-day functioning of NetNZ.
• Oversee strategic development, teaching and learning, operations, communications, sustainability, finance, and tech infrastructure.

Skills

Relationship-building

Interpersonal skills

Strategic capability

Professional judgement

Written & verbal communication

Online platforms & tools

Co-operative leadership

Equitable access commitment

Job description

Secondary (Years 7-15) / wharekura, Other senior leadership

English, Health and physical education, Learning languages, Mathematics and statistics, Science, Social sciences, Technology, Te reo Māori, The arts

5-7MU

NetNZ is a collective of schools who work together to enable high quality, networked, online learning opportunities for ākonga of participating kura. A small leadership team is employed in partnership with our schools to lead the networked environment that sits across the kura. One of our member schools will employ the successful candidate in the interests of the wider network.

This is unique opportunity to work in a highly innovative, distributed environment across schools. We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and visionary educational leader to join our senior leadership team as a full-time senior leader. Working in partnership with the other senior leader, the successful applicant will drive operational momentum and strategic outcomes across key organisational domains. Each senior leader holds oversight responsibility across agreed strategic domains and, where relevant, a regional liaison role while contributing collaboratively to the wider leadership, strategic direction, and day-to-day functioning of the organisation.

Key work areas include:

• strategic development
• teaching and learning
• educational operations
• communication and engagement
• sustainability and finance
• technological infrastructure.

Attributes necessary to effectively lead this organisation include:

• strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust across a wide range of remote stakeholders
• demonstrated ability to self-manage and work autonomously within a distributed, online team
• strategic capability and sound professional judgement
• strong written and verbal communication skills
• confidence in using both asynchronous and synchronous online platforms and tools
• ability to work flexibly within a co-operative leadership structure
• genuine commitment to equitable access to education for New Zealand students, particularly in rural and geographically isolated communities.

This position starts January 2027.