Boca Raton, Florida
Posted: 06-Mar-26
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Type: Full Time
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Opportunity Statement
Trinity Valley School seeks an Assistant Head of School to serve as the senior steward of the student experience across the PK–12 journey. This is an engrossing, highly relational leadership role for an experienced independent school educator who delights in the daily life of a school and takes pride in making complex institutions run well for students, faculty, staff, and families.
Working in close concert with the Head of School, the Assistant Head ensures that student-facing programs, people, and systems operate with clarity, consistency, and care. This leader brings calm to complexity, supports and challenges senior colleagues, and keeps the life of the school moving forward with intention and integrity.
This role is designed for a leader who values presence over prominence, follow-through over flash, and relationships as the foundation of excellence.
The Role at a Glance
The Assistant Head of School is the chief steward of student life and programming at TVS. Reporting to the Head of School, this leader oversees all student-facing programs and the senior leaders who guide them, ensuring coherence across academic, co-curricular, athletic, and experiential offerings.
This position requires sound judgment, emotional intelligence, and a steady leadership presence. In addition, the Assistant Head serves as the Head of School's chief integrator of day-to-day leadership work-convening the school's senior leadership team, coordinating institutional priorities, and ensuring that strategic initiatives move from planning to sustained execution. The Assistant Head is highly visible in the life of the school-at arrival and dismissal, in hallways and classrooms, on playing fields and stages-modeling the values and expectations of the community through daily actions.
Mission Alignment
The Assistant Head of School plays a central role in advancing Trinity Valley School's mission and student objectives. Across all areas of responsibility, this leader helps ensure that students experience:
- Fine scholarship with fulfillment at college, supported by coherent academic and co-curricular programming that fosters intellectual curiosity, rigor, and readiness for postsecondary success
- The development of wide, constructive interests, championing athletics, arts, experiential education, and global learning as essential components of a well-rounded education
- Intelligent citizenship, modeled through community norms, student life practices, and programs that cultivate responsibility, engagement, and respect for others
- Spiritual and moral development that promotes lasting values, upheld through consistent expectations, thoughtful decision-making, and leadership grounded in integrity, empathy, and care
This role helps translate these objectives from aspiration into a distinctive experience for students across the PK–12 journey.
Key Areas of ResponsibilityStrategic Leadership & Institutional Coordination
- Convene and lead the school's leadership team, establishing clear rhythms, agendas, and follow-through
- Partner with the Head of School to advance strategic priorities and ensure alignment across divisions and programs
- Drive implementation of major schoolwide initiatives, translating vision into timelines, ownership, and measurable progress
- Serve as a coordinating leader for Division Directors and the student-facing administrative team, strengthening collaboration and coherence
- Monitor execution across departments and ensure that key decisions result in consistent action
Student-Facing Programs & Senior Leadership
- Provide leadership and oversight for all student-facing programming across the PK–12 experience
- Champion a school culture where every member of the community feels welcomed and supported, helping to ensure that teaching and learning practices honor dignity, belonging, and respect for diverse perspectives and experiences.
- Directly supervise Division Directors, the Athletic Director, the Academic Support Team, and a newly created PK–12 Director of Teaching and Learning, supporting their leadership, growth, and accountability
- Ensure alignment and coherence across academic, co-curricular, athletic, and experiential programs, including Trojan Outdoor Experience and Global Programming
- Serve as a senior decision-maker on matters related to student life, programming, and daily operations
Additional Program Oversight (Interim)
- Continue oversight of Venue Production and Orchestra until a long-term structural solution is established
Operations, Systems & Follow-Through
- Oversee student-facing operations, calendars, and major events with support from a newly installed Events and Calendar Coordinator.
- Establish and maintain clear routines, systems, and decision-making structures that support consistency and excellence
- Anticipate challenges and address points of friction before they escalate
- Partner with the CFO on budgeting related to student-facing programs, Campus Master Planning, and other strategic projects
Faculty & Adult Leadership Support
- Serve as a steady, approachable presence for faculty and staff, especially in moments of pressure or transition
- Drive and oversee employee accountability including the development of a faculty evaluation system and course evaluations in partnership with HR, division directors, and Director of Teaching and Learning
- Support Division Directors and program leaders in supervision, evaluation, and professional growth
- Clarify expectations and responsibilities while fostering trust and accountability
Student Life, Safety & Policy
- Provide leadership oversight for student life policies and practices
- Collaborate with the Director of Safety and Security, who oversees nursing and health services and the security team
- Ensure policies are applied with fairness, consistency, and compassion
Leadership Partnership & Governance
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Head of School
- Take ownership of delegated institutional priorities and special projects
- Serve as an administrative liaison to Board committees as assigned
Professional Qualifications
- Significant leadership experience in independent schools, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked in multiple school communities and bring a perspective shaped by varied cultures and governance models
- Demonstrated success leading complex, student-facing programs and supervising senior leaders
- Deep understanding of the rhythms of school life and the developmental needs of students across PK–12
- A visible commitment to children, classrooms, and co-curricular life; this leader genuinely enjoys being present where students are
- Sound judgment, discretion, and a reputation for integrity
- Attunement to and empathy for the diverse perspectives, experiences, walks of life, and motivations that comprise a diverse and vibrant school community
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred
Why Trinity Valley School
Founded in 1959, Trinity Valley School (TVS) is a PK–12 independent school serving more than 1,000 students on a beautiful 75-acre campus in Fort Worth, Texas. TVS is known for its academic strength, distinctive experiential programs, and a community defined by warmth, integrity, and high expectations.
At TVS, students are known and valued as individuals. Faculty and staff are deeply committed to mentoring young people-encouraging curiosity, resilience, leadership, and growth-while modeling the school's motto, Per Aspera ad Astra ("Through Difficulty to the Stars").
Fort Worth offers an exceptional quality of life. A welcoming and culturally rich city, it combines world-class museums, a vibrant arts scene, outstanding food, and access to outdoor recreation with a manageable pace of life and strong sense of community. As part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, it provides professional opportunity without sacrificing connection or balance.
The Work Ahead
Trinity Valley School is a school with momentum-grounded in tradition and purposeful about its future. As the Head of School focuses on long-term vision and external leadership, the Assistant Head of School anchors the daily life of the school, ensuring that students experience consistency, care, and excellence across every part of their day. This leader also helps carry the school's strategic work forward-bringing people together, sustaining momentum, and ensuring that important initiatives take root in the lived experience of students and adults alike.
The work ahead calls for a leader who:
- Loves children and adolescents and takes genuine joy in the daily rhythms of school life
- Is energized by being visible-at arrival, in hallways and classrooms, at games, performances, outdoor programs, and community events
- Can manage complexity while preserving calm and clarity
- Supports senior colleagues with both high expectations and authentic care
- Models the highest ideals of Trinity Valley School through words, actions, and presence
This is a role for someone who believes that schools are built not only through strategy, but through relationships, consistency, and care-and who is eager to give their full professional self to the life of a school.
Trinity Valley School is an equal opportunity employer and seeks candidates who will contribute to the diversity and strength of our community.