Leadership

Alan Schultz joined the NBCS staff as General Manager in 2001 and is focused on ensuring the vision of NBCS is resourced. His desire is to see students energised and released to take responsibility for their learning; connected with others and with God. Alan is responsible for asset acquisition and management across the school. His experience and skills are essential to the school’s senior management team and in leading the business, administration, marketing, finance and property sections of the school.

Alan previously worked in executive positions across the government and private sectors. His responsibilities included consulting, training, marketing, information technology and customer services operations in large companies across Australia and New Zealand.

Craig is an experienced teacher of 25 years. Craig joined the NBCS team in 2000, and has been Deputy Principal since 2003. In this role he has carried the vision of NBCS through leading the day-to-day operation of the school and ensuring that the DNA of leadership is embedded within the entire school community. A significant part of Craig’s role has been responsibility for the implementation and development of technology within the school. He gives expression to vision through oversight of projects such as the Personal Digital Devices Program (PDD) and the online learning resources.

As Head of Secondary, Jenny provides community leadership over the learning and pastoral care for all students in Years 7-12. She is an experienced educator, passionate about young people and releasing their potential.
Jenny has been part of the NBCS community since 1988. During that time she has held integral roles, including working with the Education Support team, Head of Middle Years, and her current role as Head of Secondary.

This responsibility sees innovative educational practice continue to build, with a vision to provide every student with excellence in their experience of education and to set them up for achieving their personal best in preparation for life after school.

Tim joined NBCS in 2005 as a Science/Geography teacher, following completion of a Bachelor of Science (Environmental) degree and Graduate Diploma in Education. He is currently studying his Masters of Educational Leadership through Macquarie University. Taking leave from NBCS in 2008-09 to live and work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tim brings a passion for both ‘Excellence in Education’ and ‘Christianity in Action’ to his leadership and teaching.

Drew leads the Wellbeing Team and is focused on helping promote positive culture at NBCS. This involves providing support for students as they navigate life and positively face challenges that may arise. Drew works alongside staff helping them to implement best practice strategies in supporting students to be focused and engaged as they learn.

Drew has been at NBCS for many years teaching and leading PDHPE and Sport. Drew is also trained as a Child Protection Investigation Officer.

Mick oversees the case management and resolution of issues relating to Child Protection, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Bullying/Harassment.

Mick has many years’ experience and is skilled in conflict resolution, mediation and case management of student issues in Secondary.

Mick is a registered Child Protection Investigator with the Association of Independent Schools. He is responsible for ensuring that issues concerning the wellbeing of students are managed appropriately and that all investigations are conducted with procedural fairness and natural justice.

Mick has a Masters Degree in Education.

As the Director of Teacher Quality, Jann directly contributes to the strategic goal of teacher excellence by leading, managing, supervising and supporting the process of Teacher Accreditation and targeting of high quality Pre-Service teachers. She is one of the key decision makers in the exercise of school policy and procedures relating to compliance and accreditation of NBCS Teaching staff.

Jann’s role is to provide professional accountability and ensure that our teachers have appropriate levels of professional knowledge, practice and professional engagement that will improve the outcomes for our students.

Damien first arrived at NBCS in 2004 where he taught PDHPE, Mathematics, History and served as Community Leader. In 2010 he felt God’s call to study theology and spent the next three years completing a Master of Divinity at SMBC. It was here Damien thought deeply about the Bible, worldviews, and cross cultural communication. The past seven years saw him serve as the Middle School Chaplain, and later the Secondary School Chaplain, at Barker College. He has also been a keynote speaker at various camps and conferences, including KYCK and Crusaders.

Damien is passionate about Jesus and enjoys walking alongside students, staff and parents on their faith journey. He is responsible for the oversight of Chapel, Christian Studies, and voluntary groups where students can go deeper in the Christian faith. He often says we will teach students ‘how’ to think, not ‘what’ to think. Damien is excited to return to NBCS to help students find meaning, articulate their beliefs, and see people become the best version of themselves under God.

Rosemary is Professor of Education and Culture at UTS. She is the Founding Director of the International Research Centre for Youth Futures, an interdisciplinary centre concerned with the multiple influences on the futures of children and young people. Rosemary is a Chief Investigator on three ARC Linkage Grants and one of three international CIs on a UK Leverhulme Grant investigating Children and War 1890-1919. Her recent publications include Australian Literature for Young People (2017) and Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War (2015). Rosemary leads several major projects that are philanthropically funded and are part of the Centre’s commitment to youth futures. Rosemary’s research interests include Australian literature and children’s literature; multimodal literacy education and learning; story and technology; poetics and theory of children’s literature; indigenous education; school education; children’s drama and culture; transdisciplinarity.

Mark is a bootstrap entrepreneur who has built several successful businesses over the years. An experienced Managing Director, with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry, Mark has been developing software for 27 years. Mark launched Literatu into the global K-12 education market in 2012 after selling his successful Risk Management software company in 2009. He is passionate about forging innovation in education, transforming manual processes that are inefficient, poorly delivered and lack measurable outcomes to improve outcomes. Mark graduated from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia, and is skilled in Business Process, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise Architecture.

B.Ed., Dip.Teach.(Mathematics), Grad.Dip.Ed.Studs, M.Ed.

Eric has spent over 30 years in senior leadership roles in leading independent schools in Sydney and as Head of The Scots School, Bathurst. He has also held senior management roles in private enterprise ventures in the property sector. As an experienced school leader Eric’s role on the Board of NBCS is to draw on his experience in education and business. He wants to share his passion for education with a desire to see students achieve their potential, learn to think critically, to live intentionally, and to be the best they can be. He believes all children have extraordinary God-given potential and the NBCS environment provides the opportunity for students to realise their potential and to respond to God’s call on their lives. Eric believes NBCS is well positioned to build on its excellent reputation for responsive, personalised and cutting-edge educational practices and to achieve outstanding character development and academic outcomes for all students.

Eskil is a senior executive and advisor with significant experience in leading and partnering with stakeholders at all levels within private and public organisations.  He has held executive and management roles in government and senior positions in private legal practice at a top tier law firm, having practiced as a lawyer for 20 years. Eskil has had extensive involvement in not for profit organisations including as a board member of a regional church and as the congregation’s chairperson.  He holds degrees in law and science and certification in corporate governance. Eskil seeks to empower individuals and teams to achieve their goals utilising a values based framework.  He is committed to seeing staff and students of NBCS fulfil their potential.