Principal
Employment
Full time, Permanent
Subject
General Teaching
Sector
Independent
Teaching level
Secondary
Salary range
Posted 13 Oct 2026
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School type
Co-educational
Year range
10-12
School staff (FTE)
8.2
5.4 teaching · 2.8 non-teaching
Students per teacher
12:1
teaching FTE basis
Total enrolments
65
Language other than English
49%
Girls vs boys
22 girls · 43 boys
Socio-educational background
Well above the Australian average
Source: ACARA My School data
Role description
Unique Headship opportunity for a true-educator/active learner/ transformer/ disrupter/ entrepreneur. Are they not kinda the same thing?…
Only for Schumpeterians…
Could suit a STEM/Business/Econ head of department; to mid-career deputy looking to step up; to a latter career change-agent who gets what wrong with ‘the factory’ … and can see what’s right for the future.
There is nothing ‘modern’ about modern education. It was due a refit 30-20-10 years ago. It now needs a wholesale rebuild. No longer a strategic choice; an existential imperative … and Westbourne has been on the case for ~10 years; we’ve got this!
With more awards (mostly for innovation) than we can poke a stick at, we are looking for a partner to help keep us at the leading (if not bleeding) edge of innovation and drive our Sydney, and UK and Singapore, schools further on this crazy AI-enabled ride.
This is not a role for the faint-hearted. We have no desire to be ‘big’; just very, very good.
We are already, so you have a leg up.
But you will need to own it and throw every ounce of your heart and soul into it.
Thing don’t come to those who wait. Decisions are made by those who step up.
And change happens through those who ACT. So you have to be ‘all-in’. You will be hands-on at every level.
Reasonable, intelligent people could disagree with the above; and opine that it is all bluff and bluster.
Fair enough!
But if you have got this far, perhaps we have caught your attention.
I’m not going to give you our rah-rah; you will of course do your own research.
Nor a role description nor (e-hem) a ‘person specification’. (…