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Principal

  • Full Time
  • Palmerston North, Manawatu, NEW ZEALAND
  • 29 September 2023
  • New Zealand's Primary Teachers Collective Agreement set the terms and conditions, including base salary, for this position. A salary assessment will establish an Individual’s actual base salary once a role is confirmed. With the exception for Australians, please check the New Zealand Immigration website for details if applying from overseas.

Palmerston North Adventist Christian School
Learning and growing in God

pnacs.school.nz/

Tagged position. Our long-standing, treasured principal/tumuaki will retire at the end of this year, opening the door for a new principal to lead our school into the future, beginning term 1, 2024. Palmerston North Adventist Christian School is a progressive school in the heart of Palmerston North, Manawatu.

We are excited to gain a Christ-centred, future-focused leader who meets the tagged criteria with the skills to navigate the challenges of 21st-century learning. The school board seeks an educational leader with a vision who will connect with, lead and inspire our school community in providing an Adventist Christian education to learners within the school community.

The ideal applicant will:

–       Have proven leadership

–       Positive communication and relationship skills

–       Managerial experience

–       Sound curriculum knowledge

–       Effective pedagogy

–       Be a current and active New Zealand Adventist Christian Church member.

–       Be committed to building on the strong academic results currently achieved across the school and the good reputation held in the community

–       Communicate, connect and engage effectively with our culturally diverse community

–       Recognise the responsibility to maintain and preserve the school’s special character

Furthermore, having a willingness and ability to take part in religious instruction appropriate to the special Seventh-day Adventist character of the school is a condition of appointment. Most importantly, the successful applicant will be able to demonstrate commitment to the school’s LIFE (Love, Integrity, Faith and Excellence) values.

A teaching load responsibility is also expected of the successful appointee.

To request a job application pack, please email [email protected]

To apply, please forward your CV and cover letter stating your curriculum strengths as well as any other strengths or interests which you would bring to our school, along with 3 referees’ details addressed to Mr Hamish Guthrie, Presiding Member of the School Board (+64 27 222 0003)

To apply for this job email your details to employment@pnacs.school.nz.

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