Highland Christian Grammar School Principal – PNG

Located in Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands Province, HCGS plays a vital role in supporting the work of MAF and other mission organisations by providing quality, Christ-centred education for the next generation. Serving a multicultural community, the school offers an excellent international educational experience from Foundation (elementary) through to Grade 10.

HCGS exists to equip for leadership through a Christ-centred international education, partnering with parents to provide a well-rounded, Bible-based, academically excellent, and culturally sensitive programme that nurtures each child’s individual gifts. By meeting the educational needs of mission families and the wider local community, HCGS helps lay a strong foundation of faith, learning, and leadership development in this strategically important region.

HCGS’s mission is to provide, in partnership with parents, a well-rounded educational program that is Bible-based, Christ-centered, academically excellent, culturally sensitive, and supportive of individual personalities, needs, and gifts.

• Bachelor’s degree in education or teaching field
• Teaching credentials/certification from state or country of origin
• At least one year of classroom teaching experience
• Proficient in the English language
• Teachers must be able to adjust to living in another culture and working as a team among people from a variety of countries and backgrounds.

• Overseas/missions experience or teaching in a cross cultural context would be an advantage but is not a necessity
• Teachers should be willing to invest their lives in their students beyond just teaching in the classroom.