Department Lead – Creative Arts

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Creative Strategist

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Crimson Academies

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2025

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Education • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Crimson Academies is an education venture studio that builds and scales innovative schools and the AI-native software that runs them. The group acquires and grows schools rethinking how students learn and operates a portfolio of five schools spanning primary and secondary education — including Crimson Global Academy (an online high school), Aotearoa Infinite Academy (tuition-fee-free online schooling for New Zealand), Future School (AI-enabled, project-based learning), Mt Hobson Academy (online primary/project-based learning and parent-led programs), and Summit Point School (specialist support for neurodiverse students). Crimson Academies also develops in-house platforms to support multi-campus operations and learning: a global Student Information System (Global SIS), TEMPO (a New Zealand SIS), Learning Lab (a learning management system with AI teaching assistants), Bright (global HR/credentialing), and an Enrolment platform. Headquartered in Auckland and led by CEO Penelope Barton and co-founder Jamie Beaton, the studio emphasizes AI-enabled learning, global scale, and building software and operations alongside schools.

📋 Description

• Set the department vision for Creative Arts from Year 9 to Year 13 • Lead innovative online courses using digital studios, recording, virtual exhibitions and live performance • Create opportunities for students to share their work with whānau and the community, online and in person • Connect learning to NCEA, Scholarship, tertiary study and creative industries • Lead, coach and appraise teachers in the department • Build a culture of creativity and experimentation • Oversee assessment, moderation and achievement data, including online portfolio and performance assessment • Manage the department budget, creative software and equipment • Teach as part of the role

🎯 Requirements

• Registered teacher with a full practising certificate • Specialist expertise in at least one creative arts discipline • Leadership experience, or a strong record of leading programmes, productions or exhibitions • Imagination about how digital tools can open up creative learning • Strong understanding of NCEA arts assessment, including portfolios and performance • Energy to build a creative community among students who learn from many places

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment • PLD support • Collaborative leadership network • Competitive remuneration • Freedom to build a department from the ground up • Creative software and equipment resources