Senior School Principal
St. John’s School
Canada
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Summer of 2023
- Apply by:
- 28 January 2023
Job overview
St. John’s School
Senior School Principal
St. John’s School (SJS) is a co-educational independent school in Vancouver, and home to 570 students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12, 325 of whom are in the Senior School (grades 6 to 12). A vibrant, warm, and welcoming community, the School provides an environment where all are encouraged to be their best and everyone belongs. St. John’s values courage, curiosity, integrity, respect, and wellness and develops confident life-long learners who make a difference in their communities. An International Baccalaureate World School (PYP, MYP, and IB diploma), with small class sizes, diverse co-curricular activities, and a genuinely caring environment, St. John’s is a flourishing, happy, and healthy school. With the retirement of the current Senior School Principal after 15 years of outstanding leadership, there is a tremendous opportunity to build on SJS’s many strengths and to take the Senior School to the next level of excellence.
Reporting to the Head of School, the Senior School Principal will be a key member of the SJS senior leadership team, with comprehensive responsibility for all activities involving students and faculty in the Senior School. The Principal provides the leadership to ensure a healthy, safe, and dynamic learning environment in which both staff and students may best grow and develop.
SJS is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic educational leader, at the forefront of innovative approaches to teaching and learning, to support and engage senior division faculty and staff in striving for excellence in all areas. The Principal will be a strong relationship-builder and will actively collaborate and connect with all members of the SJS community. The new Senior School Principal will bring a track record of leadership and administrative experience, ideally earned in an independent school. They will join a School that is well-governed, financially secure, staffed by highly motivated and committed teachers and staff, and embraced by enthusiastic students and supportive parents. Knowledge of the International Baccalaureate will be considered an asset.
Consideration of candidates will begin in December 2022, with the new Principal to take office in the summer of 2023. Applications are encouraged immediately at www.odgersberndtson.com/en/careers/18524. Inquiries should be directed to Julia Robarts and Priya Ganesh at sjs@odgersberndtson.com.
About St. John’s School
- St. John’s School
- 2215 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver
- British Columbia
- V6K 2J1
- Canada
St. John’s School is an independent, co-educational day school in Vancouver, Canada. The school was founded in 1986, and its motto translates from Latin as ‘to the future with hope’. There are approximately 570 students on the school roll, taught between the ages of junior Kindergarten to Grade 12. The city of Vancouver is located on Canada’s western coast, and has a population of 2.5 million in the wider metropolitan area.
The school is a member of the Federation of Independent Schools Association, and teaches the curricula of the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. Co-curricular activities at the school include field trips, outdoor education experiences, debating tournaments, chess clubs and community service initiatives. Previous years have seen international trips to locations such as India, Costa Rica, and Nepal.
Junior School Principal
Carolyn Breland
Senior School Principal
Trevor Gale
Values and vision
A core value of St. John’s School is intercultural awareness, celebrating Canada’s inclusivity and diversity both within the school and through interaction with the wider world. Staff are encouraged to provide an all-encompassing educational experience, that develop academic, social, physical, emotional and ethical aspects of a child. The school also places great focus on communication, offering a highly developed language programme taught through written, graphic, speech, physical and digital methodologies. As a means of encouraging independent thought and critical skills, at the conclusion of the MYP programme, each student will complete a Personal Project. This project will involve planning, research and a high degree of introspection.
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