Department Lead – Technology

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🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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 direction for Technology from Year 9 to Year 13 across digital technologies, design and hard materials as relevant • Lead innovative online courses and projects that build design thinking, computational thinking and real-world problem solving • Connect learning to NCEA, micro-credentials, tertiary study and industry, including partnerships with tech and design organisations • Lead, coach and appraise teachers in the department • Grow a culture of experimentation • Oversee assessment, moderation and achievement data, and act on findings • Manage the department budget, software and tools • Work with IT on platforms and access • Teach as part of the role

🎯 Requirements

• Registered teacher with a full practising certificate • Specialist expertise in technology or digital technologies • Leadership experience, or a strong record of leading programmes and colleagues • Current knowledge of emerging technology, including AI, and ideas for using it well in learning • Confidence designing and teaching hands-on, project-based learning online • A network in, or appetite to build links with, industry and tertiary providers

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom to build a department from the ground up • PLD support • Collaborative leadership network • Competitive remuneration