Bina, a fast-growing digitally native international school, is looking for a head of school. As Head of School, you'll drive the vision for educational excellence, ensuring innovative pedagogy, cohesive practices, and high-quality learning experiences across the school. You'll lead a team of educators, oversee operations, foster community trust, and collaborate to advance cutting-edge educational strategies, shaping a transformative, student-centred future. Please send your CV and CL to tonoam@bina.school with the title Head of School in the email.
What is bina?
bina is a global, digitally native school for 4-12-year-olds (and their adults!). It offers internationally accredited and expert-led education to families who demand more attention, accessibility, and a global perspective. 100+ families trust our flexible, home-based precision education approach in >30 countries. We grew 4.5x YoY and reached $1M ARR. We expect to grow tenfold in the next 2 years while creating a unique multiplayer learning environment where children and educators from across the globe learn, collaborate, and grow together in real-time daily.
Job to be done:
You'll lead the pedagogical and methodological vision as the Head of School. You'll support the educators to ensure educational eminence, drive research-based practices into the classrooms, ensure quality and equity, and craft educational cohesiveness throughout the school (its teams, functions, and time zones). You'll oversee school operations, from pedagogy and teacher development to community engagement and strategic planning. You'll ideate and collaborate with R&D and craft vastly new educational experiences.
Responsibilities
Shape and drive educational excellence:
* Set the tone for the students' socio-emotional growth and academic rigour by developing, implementing, and championing bina's unique pedagogy.
* Observe, enrich and enhance classroom teaching practices, guaranteeing comprehensive, school-wide coherent, and outrageously fun learning experiences.
Inspire and lead the team:
* Oversee the educators' team growth to ensure alignment with our mission.
* Recruit, mentor, and retain top teaching talent and support roles.
* Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture where every team member feels heard, seen, and known.
* Lead professional development initiatives to elevate the skills and capabilities of your team continuously.
Oversee school operations:
* Manage day-to-day operations to ensure smooth, efficient, and respectful school functioning.
* Develop and execute strategic plans to drive enrollment, retention, teacher and student agency, and success.
* Take ownership of school-related budgets and resources optimizing them for maximum impact.
* Lead international accreditation initiatives.
Build strong relationships:
* Create a welcoming and supportive environment for students and their families.
* Proactively address concerns and feedback, maintaining trust and alignment with the school's mission.
* Support collaborations with educational and non-profit organizations.
Advance bina's vision:
* Focus on student, family, and educator experiences, continuously studying, testing, and iterating to ensure they are meaningful and magical.
* Collaborate with the strategy team to align school goals with organizational strategy.
* Contribute to shaping the future of education, advocating for innovation and excellence.
* Use data and insights to refine practices, ensuring we push the upper boundaries in primary education.
KPI's Year 1
Students experience a play-based environment where they achieve academic and socio-emotional growth. Teachers are supported and collaborate effectively, while families trust Bina as a partner in education and parenting. The school operates efficiently, secures international accreditations, and collaborates with educational organizations.
* Educational excellence/pedagogy
* Establish a tool/process for 360-degree measurement of academic and social-emotional performance.
* Define how we measure and signal bina's educational excellence to the outside world.
* Develop a regular quality assurance system, including class recording reviews, peer-to-peer evaluation, etc.
* Edu team management
* Lead the recruitment of 30 teachers and co-teachers in 2025.
* Manage a team of up to 60 educators by the end of 2025.
* Retain 90%+ of the team.
* Ensure high satisfaction levels of the team.
* All educators have personal PD (professional development) goals defined.
* School ops
* Define and implement school satisfaction measurements by all stakeholders.
* Maintain at least 65+ NPS with families.
* Co-lead Gross Profit goals according to bina budget.
* bina's vision
* 2Y holistic educational strategy developed.
* Business development support in IB/Cambridge accreditation.
* ESA integration.
* NGO partnerships implementation.
What You Bring:
* Proven success as an international primary school head, managing teams of 50+ educators across diverse cultural contexts.
* Extensive experience in pedagogy and methodology development.
* Demonstrated leadership in launching and scaling schools from inception to maturity.
* Skilled in running research and development within school settings.
* Exceptional communication and organizational abilities.
* Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach, adept at navigating change management.
* Passionate about transforming education through global citizenship and impactful learning experiences.
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