Associate Division Head

**Date**:8 Oct 2024**Location**:Sao Paulo, BR**Job ID**:3798**School**:Avenues Sao Paulo**Company**:Nord Anglia Education

**Why Work at Avenues**
- Welcome to Avenues São Paulo Since our doors opened in August 2018, we've been on a mission to provide a truly transformative educational experience. Through immersive English language learning and dynamic interdisciplinary projects, we prepare our students to become future worldwise leaders uniquely equipped to understand and solve global-scale problems. As part of the Nord Anglia Education network, we're proud to stand alongside Avenues New York, shaping the future of education together. With a vibrant community of over 1100 students, ranging from as young as 18 months old through to graduation, our campus buzzes with a culture of innovation, creativity, collaboration, and state-of-the-art technology. Join us as we embark on a journey of lifelong learning and growth and discover why there's no place quite like Avenues São Paulo.- Start Date: January 2025
- The Opportunity
- Our schedule, designed for creative collaboration and inquiry-based learning, allows faculty to design deep learning experiences for students.** Associate Division Heads are Avenues leaders dedicated to directly supporting the success, growth and impact of our talented, diverse, and world-wise faculty.**
- Avenues seeks a daring, future-wise educator, whose personal mission aligns with ours, to join us as an Associate Division Head. The ADH will join a talented leadership team who ensure that the Avenues secondary division is an extraordinarily engaging place to work, a laboratory of deeper learning for all, and a thriving community.
- What You Will Do
- As Associate Division Head, you will:

- **Ensure and support faculty success**:the teachers you lead feel deeply engaged and effectively supported to impact students, develop professionally, and thrive.
- **Nurture teachers' engagement**:faculty consistently feel trust, connection, belonging, and clarity, leading to a deep sense of engagement and fulfillment
- **Support teachers' impact**:faculty produce transformational student learning while growing and developing professionally.
- **Be a divisional and organizational leader, **serving in a leadership team with shared ownership for the success of the division and of Avenues as a whole.
- **Enable innovation**, by nurturing an environment in which faculty take risks and improve on existing practices
- **Drive deep student learning, **guiding faculty to create authentic, inquiry-oriented learning experiences, while meeting each student's individual needs
- **Nurture a thriving culture **of trust, learning and shared purpose among the whole community of adults and students
- Help **build exceptional teams** of faculty through effective managing, coaching, feedback, hiring and assessing faculty growth and impact
- **Collaborate intensively** **with diverse colleagues** - such as deans, faculty, other ADHs, and others - to effectively support Avenues students, parents, and school community
- **Lead projects, take on new challenges**, and be an "all-in" leader committed to create a New School of Thought
- Who We Are Looking For
- You bring all or most of the following:

- **Superb ability as a teacher, **and a deep understanding of high-quality instruction in grades 6-12; expertise in inquiry-driven and interdisciplinary project based learning is a great asset. STEM-related content expertise is preferred.
- **Instructional leadership skills,** to guide teachers to grow in their teaching and create deeper learning for students
- **People management ability, **to lead teams in which teachers are engaged in their work, constantly growing and accomplishing great things together
- **A missionary zeal** for transforming education, and for changing the world through it
- **An innovative, problem-solving approach,** including in ambiguous situations that require figuring out new solutions rather than following established paths
- **Intellectual curiosity** and mindset of continuous learning and growth
- Skillful at **working** **across lines of difference** in an intercultural team

**Diversity, Inclusion and Safeguarding**

Avenues is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization. We make all employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law. Moreover, we strive to uphold a culture in which every colleague feels that they belong, are trusted, and are valued. This dedication to these principles ensures that we foster a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and contribute.