JOB SPECIFICATION
POSITION: Headmaster
LOCATION: Forest Heights Upper School, San Antonio, Texas
REPORTS TO: Executive Director
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
Position Summary:
A Great Hearts headmaster heroically shapes his or her community for a greater good. He or she takes on one of the most important leadership positions in our culture, turning a generation of young hearts and minds towards truth, goodness, and beauty. He or she cultivates a setting from which great-hearted people emerge, a setting that no single individual can create alone, but to which his or her noble calling is essential. Furthermore, a Great Hearts headmaster joins a family of headmasters across our academies, with all the support, friendship, and strength this fellowship provides.
Candidates will have leadership experience, demonstrable excellence in classroom teaching, and a well-grounded vision for the moral and intellectual formation of the human person. A Great Hearts headmaster delights to enkindle the love of truth, goodness, and beauty in others. Candidates should possess a passion for classical education, and a love for their fellow man that is both humble and relentless. A Great Hearts headmaster is called to establish and nurture a joyful and ennobling academic community. Candidates should have a proven ability to foster strong, healthy relationships throughout their community.
Competencies/Qualifications:
Classical Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: The school leader has a demonstrable understanding of and affinity for the classical tradition. In addition, her actions reflect prudence and magnanimity. She is a capable proponent of liberal education and the classical tradition.
Leadership Planning and Execution: The school leader understands how to lead a team and is able to generate and manage systems of school leadership and schoolwide communication.
Instructional Skill-Building/Instructional Leadership: The school leader is a capable instructional leader, one who understands a full spectrum of instructional skill-building, from planning to instruction to data/LASW analysis to coaching coaches.
Building Student Culture/Community Leadership: The school leader understands and successfully influences the elements of a strong student culture, including recruitment, co-curriculars, student discipline, events, and key messaging moments. The leader has a vision for strong student culture and articulates it clearly and compellingly.
Building Faculty Culture/People Leadership: The school leader understands and successfully influences the elements of a strong faculty culture, including hiring, teacher development, and esprit de corps. The leader has a vision for strong faculty culture and articulates it clearly and compellingly.
Emotional Intelligence: The school leader is self-aware and self-disciplined, aware of his/her impact on others and able to manage relationships with trust, candor, and love.
Experience : The school leader is able to get the job done. This is true across the many stakeholder groups and areas of school function, including academic results, strong culture, and operational results (KPIs). The leader is successful on a social/interpersonal level, navigating the right path between social and professional functioning.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree at minimum.
Experience: At least 2 years of prior teaching experience or equivalent experience in the field required. At least 2 years of experience in a liberal arts institution or knowledge in the delivery of a Great Books core curriculum are strongly preferred.
Additional Requirements:
Type of fingerprint clearance: Must pass state specific fingerprint clearance.
Physical functions: Requires but is not limited to standing, sitting, repetitious hand and body movements, bending, squatting, and reaching. May be required to move or position equipment up to 15 pounds approximately.
This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not exclude or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Great Hearts Academies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.