The Search Begins...

We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving holiday.

We've finalized our initial advertisement for the Head of School position. This advertisement will be placed in a variety of strategic media, as well as being used by Committee members who make direct recruiting calls for potential candidates.

Here's the text of the advertisement.

HEAD OF SCHOOL

Founded in 1970, Kadima Hebrew Academy provides an excellent Jewish and secular education to students from pre-school to eighth grade through comprehensive, fulfilling, and outstanding Judaic, Hebrew, and General Studies curricula. Our Jewish studies program encourages critical thinking, and teaches fluency and literacy in Hebrew language, Torah, and other Jewish texts, skills and traditions. Our General Studies program is rigorous and provides a broad range of educational experiences for our students. Kadima’s graduates are literate communicators, self-aware individuals, problem solvers, collaborative workers and life long learners who possess the tools and the desire to live effective, committed, compassionate, socially responsible and motivated Jewish lives.

Kadima seeks a charismatic and entrepreneurial leader and a community builder who will guide Kadima to greater achievement and increase significantly Kadima’s student population. Our next Head of School will exemplify dynamic leadership skills, integrity, and a commitment to academic excellence, the Jewish people and Jewish values.

Our new Head of School will possess:

¨ Demonstrated success at inspiring community and creating enthusiasm for Jewish education;

¨ Established leadership skills with faculty, staff, Trustees, parents, students in a diverse community;

¨ Proven success with institutional advancement, fundraising, marketing, and financial management; and,

¨ Recognized accomplishment in managing and creating innovative and effective curricula, pedogogy and educational program development that both inspires the school community and results in tangible academic success.

Kadima is located in West Hills, California, in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles. It is part of a thriving and energetic Jewish community. Kadima offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Interested candidates should submit (1) a cover letter explaining their interest and their qualifications for the position; (2) a current resume; (3) a statement of educational philosophy; (4) the names of three to five professional references with addresses and phone numbers (we will not contact references without permission from the candidate); and any other supporting material that would be useful to the committee. Materials should be sent by email, attention Head of School Search Committee, to kadimaheadsearch@gmail.com. All submissions will be kept in strict confidence.

If you have any possible candidates, we'd appreciate it if you could forward the advertisement to them so they can apply for the position.