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Provide coaching and support to school principals to address leadership challenges and implement education priorities. Facilitate collaboration across school networks to improve leadership capability and share best practices in curriculum design and teaching.
Must be a highly experienced current or recently retired school principal with deep knowledge of the role's responsibilities. Requires proven capability in strategic and instructional leadership across both primary and secondary sectors.
We work to shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes
Our organisation is made up of talented and committed people around Aotearoa, from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. While we work in different groups and on different things, we all strive every day to make the biggest difference we can for our students in our education system.
There is a vacancy for a Regional Leadership Advisor based in and serving the Wellington region.
This is a 1 – 2-year secondment position and will commence on the 28th January 2027.
Leadership Advisor roles are exciting and rewarding opportunities for experienced school principals (current or recent) to support and coach other principals to address the challenges they are facing as school leaders and the implementation of education priorities. Leadership advisor support is provided face to face and remotely, one to one, in clusters or via larger groups/ seminars/presentations/wananga.
The regional Leadership Advisor roles need Principals with successful and rich experience in the primary and/or secondary sectors with the ability to work across a wide range of schools.
Leadership Advisors report to a Director of Education, are in the Te Mahau leadership team and work alongside an integrated team to support schools and school leaders. You will also be supported nationally by a chief advisor and by the network of leadership advisors across New Zealand.
You will be based regionally and work collaboratively with principals/tumuaki individually or within Kāhui Ako and other existing cluster networks, providing localised support for school leaders. Your role would include facilitating collaboration across principals/tumuaki, enabling them to share their expertise across the schooling network, regionally and nationally and focus on transformational change.
You will use your knowledge, expertise and experience to provide support and advice, addressing issues where and when they arise as a highly trusted educational professional. Your focus will be on improving leadership capability in schools and kura.
You will work closely with regional colleagues and play a key role in facilitating the sharing of good practice across the system, supporting collaborative networks such as clusters of schools and Kāhui Ako, and supporting innovative approaches to curriculum design and teaching and learning.
For more details about the role, you can view and download the Expectations document here
You can view and download the Expression of Interest (EOI) form here
Applicant's current /most recent terms of employment and remuneration will apply.
You will be a highly experienced current or recently retired school Principal (within the last 12 months).
We are looking for deep first-hand knowledge of the principals’ role and their responsibilities and the ability to work well across the sector.
We are looking for Principals with experience in both the primary and secondary sectors and the ability to work across both.
You will also:
At Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, we provide services and support nationally, regionally, and locally to the education sector, and in some cases, directly to ākonga and whānau.
Te Mahau │ EducationServices is the key interface between Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education and education providers. It is our role to ensure that sector leaders and the communities in which they operate have access to the expertise, programmes and resources that will allow our children and young people to reach their full potential.
We give effect to government and Ministry policy and support education and community leadership within a self-managing system, to bring about the positive changes required to lift aspiration and raise educational achievement for all.
If this opportunity interests you, please submit your completed Expression of Interest (EOI) and CV by using the ‘apply' button. We’d like to know about you, your values, or anything else you’d like to share. We’re keen to understand your motivations, strengths, transferable skills, and the diverse perspectives you will bring to the role.
Please note – there is no need to provide a cover letter. Two only attachments are to be uploaded.
Attachment 1 – EOI Form with a letter of endorsement from your Board
Attachment 2 – CV
For further information, please contact Roy Sye, Director of Education for Wellington at [email protected]
Applications close 5.00 pm, Monday, 27 July 2026
Official account for the New Zealand Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
We are the Government’s lead advisor on New Zealand's education system. We shape direction for education agencies and providers, and contribute to the Government’s goals for education. Our purpose We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes. Tā mātou kaupapa He mea tārai e mātou te mātauranga kia rangatira ai, kia mana taurite ai ōna huanga. Our vision Every New Zealander: - is strong in their national and cultural identity - aspires for themselves and their children to achieve more - has the choice and opportunity to be the best they can be - is an active participant and citizen in creating a strong civil society - is productive, valued and competitive in the world. - New Zealand and New Zealanders lead globally. Tō mātou moemoeā Ko ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa: - he pakari i roto i ō rātou ake tuakiritanga, ā-motu, ā-iwi anō - e whai wawata ana mō rātou ake mē ā rātou tamariki kia nui ake ai te whai - e taea ai te whiri, te whai huarahi hoki e tino taumata ai te puta - he tangata takatū, e kirirarau ana ki te whakapakari i te hapori - he tangata whai hua, whai mana, tauwhāinga anō i te ao. - Ko runga kē a Aotearoa me ōna uri i te ao. We oversee and deliver the following: - Strategic leadership in the sector - Support and resources for the community - Support and resources for education providers - School property portfolio management - Support and resources for teachers - Interventions for target student groups - Strategic leadership in the tertiary system - Crown entities
Offices: 33 Bowen Street, PO Box 1666, Wellington, - 6011, NZ
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