Founding Head of School

FOUNDING HEAD OF SCHOOL  - START DATE FALL 2024

Join the leadership in an expanding network of classical, liberal arts charter academies. Great Hearts Academies, a non-profit, tuition-free charter network of schools is seeking a founding Head of School for its first campus in Florida.  Location(s) will be determined by summer 2024 for up to two major metropolitan areas in Florida. The Founding Head of School position will begin one year ahead of the launch of the academy (fall of 2025) to engage actively with the Founding Region Director on all aspects of the opening.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 A Great Hearts leader heroically shapes his or her community for a greater good. He or she takes on one of the most important leadership positions in our culture, turning a generation of young hearts and minds towards truth, goodness, and beauty. He or she cultivates a setting from which great-hearted people emerge, a setting that no single individual can create alone, but to which his or her noble calling is essential. 

Candidates will have leadership experience, demonstrable excellence in classroom teaching, and a well-grounded vision for the moral and intellectual formation of the human person. 

COMPETENCIES/QUALIFICATIONS:

Classical Ethos, Pathos, and Logos 

The school leader has a demonstrable understanding of and affinity for the classical tradition. In addition, her actions reflect prudence and magnanimity. She is a capable proponent of liberal education and the classical tradition.

Leadership Planning and Execution 

The school leader understands how to lead a team and is able to generate and manage systems of school leadership and schoolwide communication.

Instructional Skill-Building/Instructional Leadership

The school leader is a capable instructional leader, one who understands a full spectrum of instructional skill-building, from planning to instruction to data/LASW analysis to coaching coaches.

Building Student Culture/Community Leadership 

The school leader understands and successfully influences the elements of a strong student culture, including recruitment, co-curriculars, student discipline, events, and key messaging moments. The leader has a vision for strong student culture and articulates it clearly and compellingly.

Building Faculty Culture/People Leadership 

The school leader understands and successfully influences the elements of a strong faculty culture, including hiring, teacher development, and esprit de corps. The leader has a vision for strong faculty culture and articulates it clearly and compellingly.

Emotional Intelligence 

The school leader is self-aware and self-disciplined, aware of his/her impact on others and able to manage relationships with trust, candor, and love.

Experience 

The school leader is able to get the job done. This is true across the many stakeholder groups and areas of school function, including academic results, strong culture, and operational results (KPIs). The leader is successful on a social/interpersonal level, navigating the right path between social and professional functioning.

HOW TO APPLY:

Candidates may use this link to begin the application online. If you have further questions, you may email Leadership Recruitment at alison.chaney@greathearts.org.

ABOUT GREAT HEARTS ACADEMIES:

Great Hearts Academies is a growing non-profit network of charter schools currently serving over 25,000 students in Arizona, Louisiana, and Texas. Great Hearts’ academies are substantially outperforming other public and private schools, proving that tuition-free schools can do a superb job of educating students if they are smaller, more efficient, and set higher expectations for all students through a core, classical liberal arts curriculum. We gladly prepare our graduates for success in the best colleges and universities in the nation, but our main purpose is the formation of the soul, heart, and mind. We believe that the highest goal of education is to become good, intellectually, and morally.