Head of Lower School

**About Role**

Green School Bali is looking to appoint a well-qualified, experienced, caring, and inspiring Head of Lower School (Early Years & Primary School). This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of an outstanding and forward-looking team in one of the World's most sustainable, holistic-based, and reputable international schools.

**Our School**

Green School Bali is a progressive, dynamic PreK-12 school located in Bali’s lush jungle with a wall-less campus. We are a community of learners passionate about making our world sustainable, and our holistic, student-guided approach inspires and empowers us to be changemakers. Our living curriculum educates for sustainability through community-integrated, entrepreneurial learning in a natural environment. We strive to champion a new model of education that nurtures the whole child, giving them agency in their own lives and learning so they can thrive with purpose in our ever-changing world.

The Lower School consists of the Early Years and Primary School Learning Neighborhoods within the bigger Green School Bali community - with approximately 230 children across Pre-K to grade 5, our teaching teams deliver learning programs that are purposeful, inspiring also engaging.

By design and intent, Green School is a dynamic place - always changing, growing, and learning. While our learning program has solid foundations that foster the development of Green School Skills, we continue to evolve and embrace research-based, progressive Learning Principles designed to nurture the qualities and competencies to advance us toward a sustainable future.

As a school community, we subscribe to a set of values - I RESPECT. These are the values of Integrity, Responsibility, Equity, Sustainability, Peace, Empathy, Community, and Trust. At all times we teach and model these values and support our students in doing the same. We encourage all teachers to honor and recognize these values in our students at all times with ongoing dialogue, discussions, and reinforcement.

**Our Teaching Profile**

At Green School Bali, **students come first**. And because teachers play an extraordinary role in nurturing our students to become confident, curious, and knowledgeable future green leaders, we look to recruit the very best practitioners in international education who are passionate about unlocking the potential of our students.

Our teachers nurture and inspire their students today to make a positive difference in the world living fully, living responsibly, and living sustainably.

**Values and Behaviours**

**Local and Global Educators**
- We build bridges to the world to make a positive difference
- We care for one another, our communities, and our planet
- We are connected
- The future is always one step ahead yet we are already equipped with the skills, courage, and compassion to navigate it with confidence.

**Students Come First**
- We exist to serve our students with every decision driven by their well-being. We inspire every student to turn their dreams and ambitions into personal bests.
- We take ownership of our learning. Find ways to bring it to life. To give quality feedback and make every moment count.

**Community and Collaborations**
- We leverage our diversity and embrace our global family. We accomplish what a single person or school alone cannot.
- We draw on our collaborative spirit and our collective talents. To take new ideas and turn them into real opportunities.

**Pioneering Spirit**
- We are proud of our tradition of innovation. We have the humility to question our way of doing things. We are open to the potential of change.
- We do not fear mistakes. We learn from them and leap forward.
- We will take the path less traveled. Because we see what others don’t. We take moments to reflect, to shape the journey ahead

**Position Criteria**
- A highly capable and proven educational leader with significant experience in international contexts;
- An outstanding educator and respected leader of learning, with a track record of delivering improvements to teaching and learning and fostering a culture of innovation;
- An effective leader and community builder who values all stakeholders and invests in each year level in order to contribute to the success of the overall student experience;
- An effective collaborator, eager to listen deeply, and to lead and contribute to a community in the pursuit of shared goals;
- Resourceful and adaptive, eager to embrace personal and collective change, growth, and learning;
- Culturally aware and willing to navigate within cross-cultural and multicultural norms and expectations;
- A champion of a professional learning culture based on student needs;
- Adept at recruitment and all aspects of staff development;
- Highly interpersonally credible, with the capacity to build relationships and communicate thoughtfully and with clear detail with a diverse range of stakeholders, including students, parents community, alumni, school bodies