Girls secondary school vacancies at a school like Woodford House are a wonderful opportunity. Woodford House believes that its staff, both teaching and non-teaching, are its most valuable resource. Our School nurtures a dynamic professional learning community that celebrates creativity, engagement and critical thinking.
Our current career opportunities are listed below. We look forward to hearing from you and learning more about you.
This strategic, commercial, and operational role will offer the right person an opportunity to make a real impact and contribution at one of New Zealand’s long-established day and boarding schools for girls.
Nestled in the heart of Havelock North Hawke’s Bay, Woodford House is an Anglican Special Character school with a long history of educating and empowering young women for the brightest possible future. 2024 will be an extremely positive phase of change in your strategic leadership career if this opportunity aligns well for you.
We’re looking for a Director of Boarding to influence and optimise the future of boarding at Woodford House through increasing our presence and ongoing growth. You will be reporting to a forward-thinking and future-facing Principal and working alongside the Senior Leadership Team and the wider school staff, as well as the Boards and parents/guardians of the students. Therefore, your true partnership approach and collaboration will be at the heart of your success in ensuring the School continues to shape, guide and bring the very best out of the approximately 240 boarding students across Years 7 to 13.
You will be instrumental in fostering a boarding team to provide a nurturing, inclusive, and vibrant boarding community that aligns with the School’s ethos and values. There is plenty of scope here. Your leadership remit will span areas including operational, financial, and commercial, compliance, health and safety, wellbeing and pastoral care activities. The existing model here is strong – this is about taking it to the next level; guiding strategy to empower and coach your team to equip them with the right resources, information, processes, knowledge, and advice to support the best service delivery possible for boarding.
To be successful here, you will need a commercial and strategic lens, but you must also be an engaging, caring and team-centred leader, most likely from the education sector. You may already be in a boarding leadership role and looking to step up into this great role. Or you could be a Head of Faculty or Dean looking to expand your educational leadership career. Excellent communication and organisational skills will combine with a commercial leaning and strategic and forward-facing view.
Remuneration will reflect the scope of this role. Support with accommodation and relocation costs may be included if required by the successful candidate. Please note there is no requirement to reside onsite or stay overnight – your leadership will ensure the boarding houses are in great hands.
School leadership roles of this nature are rare, and this one sits in the heart of an outstanding school. If you have the required strategic, operational, and people leadership experience and expertise, please apply through the team at Populous People. Click the link below to apply or call Populous People for a confidential discussion on 06 875 8446.
About us
Woodford House, a leading special character, state-integrated, boarding and day school for Year 7 – 13 girls, situated in Hawke’s Bay is seeking to appoint a talented and motivated fixed term, full-time teacher of Commerce to join our high achieving Commerce Faculty for 2024.
About the role
This role would suit a beginner or experienced teacher to deliver Commerce classes across all year levels, particularly Accounting and Economics in the senior school. The students at Woodford House are dedicated, ready learners. This position is fixed term to cover a period of parental leave, and would ideally commence Term 1, 2024.
About you
If you are motivated by the prospect of being part of a dynamic teaching team in 2024 and would enjoy the challenges of this opportunity, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
You must be eligible to work in New Zealand and satisfactorily pass all pre-employment checks such as Police Vetting and reference checking. An application form and position description can be downloaded below.
To apply, please send your completed application form and CV to Vickie Hope, Director of People at [email protected]
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and please note that interviews may be held while the advert is still live.
