Welcome to Avenues São Paulo! Since our doors opened in August 2018, we've been on a mission to provide a truly transformative educational experience. Through immersive English language learning and dynamic interdisciplinary projects, we prepare our students to become future worldwise leaders uniquely equipped to understand and solve global-scale problems. As part of the Nord Anglia Education network, we're proud to stand alongside Avenues New York, shaping the future of education together. With a vibrant community of over 1100 students, ranging from as young as 18 months old through to graduation, our campus buzzes with a culture of innovation, creativity, collaboration, and state-of-the-art technology. Join us as we embark on a journey of lifelong learning and growth and discover why there's no place quite like Avenues São Paulo.

The Avenues Primary Division provides each child with the social and academic skills needed to interact and explore the world as a confident and effective learner. In the Primary Division, our teachers implement hands-on, experiential activities to enable students to acquire essential skills, engage in creative thinking, broaden knowledge, and deepen understanding. Language immersion is a critical part of the curriculum.

Associate Division Heads (ADH) are leaders primarily dedicated to ensuring teachers' success at Avenues. The ADH is responsible for each teacher s/he leads feeling engaged, growing and developing professionally, and impacting students and families. As part of the division leadership team, the ADH helps ensure that the division is an exceptionally engaging environment for talented educators, a laboratory of deeper learning for all, and a thriving community.

What Will You Do?

As Associate Division Head, you will:

• Drive deep student learning across two grade levels, by guiding teachers to develop and teach high-quality curriculum, engage all students in challenging, meaningful work, and address individual student needs

• Build a thriving culture of commitment to excellence, collaboration, and constant learning among colleagues, students and families

• Be an inspiring role model to students and faculty, nurturing positive relationships and providing support and care for all students.

• Lead a team of talented faculty to accomplish great things with their students, and coach teachers to continually improve by giving regular, useful feedback

• Be an exemplary lead learner, always reflecting, growing and seeking to improve

• Enthusiastically take on the innumerable responsibilities and challenges that come with leading and innovating in a top-tier school

You bring all or most of the following:

• Superb ability as a teacher, with a deep understanding of high-quality instruction in grades 1-5; expertise in inquiry and project-based learning highly preferred

• Instructional leadership skills to guide teachers - and teacher teams - to grow in teaching practice and create deeper learning for students

• Experience developing curriculum that achieves ambitious learning outcomes

• Management ability, to lead teams in which teachers are engaged in their work, constantly growing and accomplishing great things together

• A missionary zeal for transforming education, and for changing the world through it

• An innovative, problem-solving approach, including in ambiguous situations that require figuring out new solutions rather than following established paths

• Skillful at working across lines of difference on a multi-cultural team

Avenues is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion throughout our organization. We strive to uphold a culture in which every colleague feels that they belong, are trusted, and are valued. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities or groups to apply. Avenues offers competitive compensation and a generous benefits package.

Avenues upholds the highest standards for safeguarding the physical and emotional wellbeing of children. As an essential aspect of this commitment, all offers are contingent upon successful completion of careful reference and background checks.