Head of School

International Schools Partnership Limited•Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

About The Position

Collage Day School is an educationally dynamic independent day school in the Palm Valley area of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Serving students aged 3 months through 8th grade, Collage provides your child a safe and beautiful environment that develops not just their love of learning, but their eagerness to explore and understand the natural world. By combining evidence-based academic programming with a wealth of socioemotional resources, Collage sets the foundation for your child to engage with the world as a well-rounded lifelong learner. Purpose of Role The ISP Principal / Head of School leads with vision and integrity, fostering a safe, inclusive and supportive school culture where learning thrives. By working collaboratively with their team, parents, and the wider ISP network, they position the school as a “School of Choice” that delivers exceptional learning experiences and outcomes, translating into increased enrolment growth and higher student retention. Their responsibilities span safeguarding, driving teaching quality through evidence-based improvement, strategic planning, community engagement, and commercial performance. Parents/carers and students recognize and endorse the school for Amazing Learning and teachers’ professional learning and development thrives under their stewardship of the school. The ISP Principal / Head of School reports to the Regional Managing Director (RMD).

Requirements

Strategic planning
Educational leadership
Safeguarding and Child Protection management
Inclusive leadership
Emotional intelligence
Building community
Stakeholder engagement
Team development
Performance management
Engaging communication
Data-driven decision-making
Marketing insights
Financial acumen
Change management
Collaborative mindset

Responsibilities

Be responsible for the safety and wellbeing of all students and adults in your school, including all activities, functions and policies to ensure students and adults are kept safe both physically and mentally, enabling them to learn without barriers.
Lead your school with vision, empathy and integrity.
Build strong, empowered leadership teams through recruitment, development and succession planning.
Leverage ISP’s leadership programs and Learning Hub platform to grow talent at all levels.
Lead and be accountable for the impact of the school’s annual performance and development cycle, ensuring that all leaders are directly supported through rigorous goal-setting, progress reviews and professional growth planning.
Oversee the broader teacher development process to ensure every teacher receives meaningful feedback and tailored development.
Champion employee engagement by modelling and fostering an open culture and an inclusive and collaborative atmosphere.
Prioritize students and their safety and learning first, always.
Be accountable for the quality of learning, progress and achievement by the relentless improvement of student outcomes and ISP Learning KPIs, using data to inform strategy and interventions.
Lead, promote and drive ISP’s Learning.First Framework through embedding the Learning Improvement Process (LIP), prioritizing the 5 Key Learning Pillars, leveraging the EdTech tools and the ISP AI toolkit and Professional Learning.
Drive improvement through evidence-based data, evaluation and teacher development systems.
Lead the curriculum strategy to ensure relevance, challenge and alignment with student needs, parent priorities and Future Pathways.
Work in partnership with the Regional Learning Director to drive the improvement of learning and teaching across the school.
Focus fully on delivering ISP’s School of Choice strategy, adapting it to your local context.
Promote and model the ISP Purpose and Principles ensuring these are visible through your daily actions and the actions of your leadership team and colleagues.
Promote and advocate for ISP Learning.First, the 5 Key Learning Pillars and ISP’s Strategic Initiatives to drive strategic school development and create value and trust in the community.
Possess a clear understanding of the school’s market and catchment, new and existing target audiences and understand how best to reach and engage with them, to ensure we maximize student retention and enrolment.
Collaborate with broader ISP teams to optimize branding, communications and enrolments.
Use parent feedback and sentiment to drive action planning and parent engagement.
Foster a culture of partnership based on effective, regular direct communication and two-way feedback between teachers and parents.
Be accessible to parents and carers, ensure their individual needs are understood and involved as valued members of the school’s learning community.
Own and take responsibility for delivering on the schools’ commercial targets and KPIs (financial, learning, people, marketing, health & safety and safeguarding).
Organize and manage all school resources efficiently to drive profitability, ensuring efficient staffing allocation.
Drive progress towards enrolment growth and income generation KPIs, to achievement financial goals.
Drive improvement of parent and employee NPS, satisfaction and engagement surveys.
Drive and support the school team to ensure school commercial and EBITDA targets are met.