Deputy Principal – Ethical Digital Fluency, Safeguarding

• Set AI-use guidelines and acceptable use agreements
• Lead digital citizenship and AI initiatives
• Serve as child protection lead
• Manage safeguarding disclosures, procedures and staff training
• Respond to cyberbullying and harmful digital communications
• Liaise with Netsafe and other partners
• Use data to design proactive programmes to reduce and eliminate cyber issues
• Work with the IT Manager to vet platforms and ensure Privacy Act compliance
• Collaborate with the Deputy Principal of Curriculum and IT on safe use of the LMS and learning platforms
• Run online safety evenings for whānau and staff
• Lead Year 9 transition, orientation, dean management, attendance follow-up and related strategies
• Report to the Principal on the portfolio
• Line-manage portfolio leaders
• Contribute to staff PLD
• Share the duty roster

• Registered teacher with a full practising certificate
• Leadership experience in pastoral care, digital learning or safeguarding
• Current knowledge of AI in education, online harm and digital wellbeing
• Ability to explain AI, online harm and digital wellbeing plainly to students, staff and whānau
• Trained, or ready to train, in child protection
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive matters
• Familiarity with privacy law
• Experience evaluating educational technology
• Warm and welcoming approach with young teens and their families
• Loyalty to the academy's vision
• Passion for doing things differently
• Hard-working and unafraid of change and innovation

• Competitive remuneration
• Permanent, full-time employment
• Teaching component that keeps you connected to learners
• Collaborative leadership team
• Contribution to staff PLD
• Shared duty roster