School Principal

A school principal who can lead with recognition and create a safe school is sought for Tasiilami Alivarpi in the Municipality of Sermersooq. Do you want to be the new school principal at Tasiilami Alivarpi in the Municipality of Sermersooq? Do you want to help develop the school in collaboration with your management team, school board, staff, and students?

• Are you visionary, action-oriented, competent, and progressive?
• Are you collaborative and focused on school development?
• Are you good at delegating tasks and thus responsibilities?
• Do you have insight into children's well-being and learning?
• Do you have pedagogical knowledge and leadership experience?
• Are you a good communicator?

So maybe you are exactly who we are looking for as a new school principal at Tasiilami Alivarpi.

Tasiilami Alivarpi is a school that aims to work on well-being and, not least, to create safety and health for students and staff, where well-being and job satisfaction are the key words. The school should be a good place that promotes the desire to learn.

At Tasiilami Alivarpi, we expect our teachers to create the best possible learning environment through professionalism and strong teamwork.

Tasiilami Alivarpi has suffered for several years under changing school inspectors and needs someone who is eager to work on strengthening stability, well-being, communication, interaction, and teamwork.

About you: If you would like to be our new school principal, you will be responsible for many different management tasks. You need to:

• Have ambitions on behalf of the school and a desire to take on leadership.
• Have strong collaboration and relationship skills
• Find it natural to set goals and frameworks for the school's development.
• Appreciate the diversity in the leadership tasks at the school.
• Preferably have leadership experience from the school world – if possible, preferably over several years.
• Preferably bilingual (Greenlandic/Danish)
• In collaboration with your two vice principals, you must ensure good communication with the communities and be responsible for the student residence. The tasks as a contact person are divided between the two vice principals.

 

You will, along with your 2 vice school inspectors and 3 department heads, be responsible for school development with the pedagogical direction for school-home collaboration, administration in the office, operations, finance, personnel management, dialogue and cooperation with the administration on strategic development, etc. Therefore, you must master a holistic and balanced view of the many elements of the management task, and you should appreciate the variety.

You elevate both the strategic and practice-oriented dialogues in the contexts you are part of, and it is always important to balance the relationship between anchoring and development.

As a person, you are kind, open, and positive, and you have a personality that makes it easy for you to communicate clearly and collaborate with many different people. You are good at listening and decoding students, staff, and parents, and you do this on a solid foundation of situational awareness and empathy for the benefit of all parties. You have an eye for creating followership, but you also have the courage to make difficult decisions.

It is also expected that you, as a school inspector in Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, contribute to the joint school development in the municipality.

Facts:

Tasiilami Alivarpi is a municipal primary school with 313 students. There are two tracks with a total of 20 regular classes and 6 special classes from grades 1 to 10 distributed over 3 levels. The teaching staff consists of 50 educators including 2 vice principals and a principal.

Criminal and Child Certificate:

The position is covered by the law on the obligation to obtain criminal and child certificates. According to the law, employment can only begin when the municipality has received satisfactory criminal and child certificates. We would therefore like to point out that the start date can only be agreed upon once the municipality has received the child certificate from the National Police as well as the criminal record from the Police.

The child certificate is obtained by the municipality with the consent of the individual, while the criminal record is obtained by the individual from the police.

Salary and employment conditions:

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the applicable agreement between the Government of Greenland, according to the agreement/collective agreement in force at the time of appointment between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

The employment will be subject to a 3-month probation period.

Housing:

A staff housing can be provided for the position, for which a deposit and rent, utilities, etc. will be paid according to the applicable rules for rent payment in the Greenland Self-Government and the municipality's properties in Greenland. If a permanent staff housing cannot be made available immediately upon commencement, employees entitled to a vacant housing will be offered a temporary vacant housing, for which rent, utilities, etc. will be paid according to the above. For further information about rent, including utilities, etc., please refer to the information at: www.iserit.gl

The start date depends on when a staff accommodation is available. A relocation travel allowance and moving expenses for household goods are provided in accordance with applicable regulations.

Further information can be obtained from:

If the position interests you, you are welcome to contact the Head of Department Akitsinnguaq Lulu Jensen for further information about the position and associated tasks at phone +299 36 73 26 or email: ajla@sermersooq.gl

Application:

Applications marked with Job no. 400-26, along with the educational certificate and documentation of previous employment, etc., must be uploaded before the deadline expires.

How to apply:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the link at the bottom of this page, where you can attach your application and CV.