High School Principal

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Job Posting Title
High School Principal

Employee Type
Regular

Recruiting Start Date
11-20-2025

Job Exempt?
Yes

Recruiting End Date
12-19-2025

Aloha mai! Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools. If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!
Kamehameha Schools (KS) is seeking an innovative and culturally grounded Principal to lead our Ke Kula Kiʻekiʻe ʻo Kamehameha ma Hawaiʻi (Hawaiʻi) Campus High School. We are looking for a strategic, student-centered leader who is deeply committed to advancing KS’s mission and developing globally competitive haumāna through Hawaiian culture-based education (HCBE) and E Ola! learner outcomes, empowering students to lead and uplift their ʻohana and lāhui.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in PK–12 education, curriculum leadership, and school administration, coupled with a growth mindset and openness to new approaches. They demonstrate a strong understanding of ʻŌiwi Edge principles and model continuous learning, helping students cultivate the agency, adaptability, and cultural grounding that give them a unique advantage in fulfilling their purpose and kuleana. This leader advances teaching and learning with curiosity and strategic vision, collaborating closely with campus partners to guide school redesign, foster shared ownership of change, and strengthen relationships.

They lead with empathy and clarity to address challenges, navigate differing perspectives, and implement meaningful improvements. Fully engaging with the school’s culture and community, they promote KS’s culture and values while helping learners develop critical thinking, creativity, empathy, and resilience. The High School Principal aligns curriculum, assessment, and instruction, strengthens operational effectiveness, and drives purposeful program innovation, cultivating a positive and progressive school culture that reflects KS’s mission and commitment to Native Hawaiian learners.

If you are an adaptive, collaborative, and mission-driven educational leader ready to shape the future of learning at KS, we encourage you to apply.

Job Summary
Leads students, parents, alumni and staff in achieving the mission and realizing the vision for Kamehameha Schools. Responsible for providing feedback to and communicates with school professional staff, the design and delivery of all pertinent curriculum, assessments, programs and related educational program functions for the campus system including the piloting, implementation, alignment, and timing and sequence of program innovation and change, the effectiveness of the education program, curricular and co-curricular with varying level of achievement from remedial to advanced.

Creates conditions that promote a purposeful, positive and progressive school ethos in which students and staff feel connected, known and valued. Creates conditions and builds capacity for institutional learning through powerful student, staff and parent learning communities. Provides curriculum and instructional leadership, manages faculty and staff matters, maintains effective and smooth school operations, directs budget preparation and execution, and oversees management of various school programs.

• Leadership, Strategy, and Planning
  • Serves as an instructional leader to enhance effective instruction and high student achievement.
  • Supports the implementation of research-based and culture-based instructional design and strategies.
  • Leads the development and promotion of an effective educational program that best meets the needs of students.
  • Creates a strong learning environment through effective use of relevant and appropriate instructional and operational strategies that establishes a culture for learning, engages all student learner abilities and includes an effective discipline system that reinforces positive student behavior.
  • Clearly articulates, modifies and communicates clear lines of authority and governance ladder.
• Curriculum, Assessment,…