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Head of School

Green Shoots International School

Hoi An, Vietnam

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Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
August 2020

Job overview

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Green Shoots International School is looking for a dynamic new Head of School to take over from our inaugural head, who assumed the mantle from the school's founder and has led Green Shoots since 2017.

The successful candidate will be energetic, flexible, international in both mindset and experience, and keen to build upon the work done by our current Head to ensure that Green Shoots continues to grow into central Vietnam's premier international school.

Our School

We are a small school with a big heart. Everything at Green Shoots is about the children, and our team works in concord to ensure that they are, and remain, at the centre of everything we do. Ours is a fast-moving, dynamic environment where growth and challenge are daily priorities, not just for students but for our community as a whole.

We have eight core values. The first seven - Adaptability, Tenacity, Independence, Sustainability, Thoughtfulness, Integrity, and Cooperation – combine to build the eighth unifying value of Respect.

Green Shoots philosophy is heavily influenced by the United World College movement, as our Director is a graduate of the group's Singapore school and one of our advisors is a former senior leader at the same school.

Our Curriculum

At Green Shoots, we follow an internationalised British Curriculum, making use of the EYFS framework, the International Primary Curriculum and Cambridge Checkpoint and IGCSEs to offer a truly global education benchmarked against British standards. Green Shoots offers a unique French-language programme for native speakers in central Vietnam. The programme offers both mother tongue and foreign language classes.


The Role

Green Shoots is looking for a new leader who is committed to our school values, able to communicate these to stakeholder groups, gain the respect and trust of students, staff and parents, and effectively lead our school through its next period of growth.  Our new Head of School will be responsible for leadership in the following areas:

  • Overseeing our vision, values and standards
  • Governance, leadership and organisational management (with Director of Admin)
  • Financial management and oversight (with Director)
  • Legal compliance ( with Director)
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Safeguarding and pastoral care
  • Human Resources
  • Parent and community liaison
  • Physical infrastructure


Salary and benefits will be negotiated based on qualifications, experience, and the successful candidate's suitability to the role. A base salary and core benefits will be supplemented with additional payments upon completion of pre-established performance indicators, which will be developed collaboratively by the new Head and the Director prior to the launch of each school year and assessed for the Director's approval by the Advisory Board at the end of each year.

For more information about our school and this leadership role, please click here .


APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Applications should be sent to c.mckinley@greenshoots.edu.vn no later than December 4th 2019. Please include with your application: 

  • A letter detailing why you are the right person to lead our school and how you envisage its growth under your leadership. This letter should also outline  your educational and leadership philosophy 
  • A current resume
  • Contact details (phone and email) for three referees, of which two should be from a current employer, preferably from the school's Board and Leadership Team. 

Long-listed candidates will be contacted by December 12th and asked to attend an interview via skype. A subsequent school visit is likely for short-listed candidates.


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About Green Shoots International School

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+84 35 392 4954

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Vision and Values

GSIS students are passionate, independent, lifelong learners. 

Ours is an inspirational learning community that fosters happy, mindful and creative thinkers committed to the sustainable development of our world.


Green Shoots was established in 2011 by Catherine Mckinley, a self-confessed Education Junky

She graduated from the United World College movement, which was founded in the 1960s by educationalist Kurt Hahn, who believed that education should be a ‘force for change’. This philosophy has guided Green Shoots since its creation. Hahn believed that ‘there is more to us than we know’ and that every child has a ‘grand passion’ that the right kind of school will guide and mould. His pedagogy focused on curiosity, tenacity, spirit, and compassion; character traits that can be seen every day on the faces of Green Shoots students.

Catherine spent over 20 years in Vietnam, establishing Green Shoots to meet the needs of her own children who have now both moved on to further education in Europe. The school has long been known around the dinner table as her ‘third child’, and one of her biggest joys is watching it grow and change as its older siblings have done.

Who We Serve

  • Green Shoots educates a community of children from five to 16 years old and will soon launch a high school programme for children up to 18 years old
  • Students travel to school by school bus, bicycle, or motorbike, from Hoi An, Danang, and the area in between
  • Increasingly, families are moving from Hanoi and HCMC, escaping the pollution and expense for a higher quality of life in Hoi An
  • They hail from almost 30 countries in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia
  • Around one-fifth of Green Shoots students are Vietnamese

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