Placements built on partnership.
Armitage Collective is a Melbourne education recruitment agency, and the hub between Victorian schools and teachers. Every search starts with a conversation about your school. You get a small number of teachers, chosen deliberately, and success measured in years rather than start dates.
Jake has placed over 100 teachers into more than 50 Victorian schools over five years. Specialist VCE teachers, Heads of Department, director-level roles, a principal, primary teachers and everything in between. Government, Catholic, independent and special education, Prep through to Year 12.
Hiring for your school?
A search partner, not a CV supplier. We take the time to understand the role, the staffroom and the school you’re building, then present the few teachers who genuinely fit. Long-term retention is the brief.
How I work with schoolsLooking for your next school?
You’re one side of the partnership, not a record in a database. We listen to what your next chapter needs to look like, then only introduce schools where you’d genuinely thrive. The right school, not the first one.
How I work with teachersThe school, the teacher, and me.
School
A job order here is a conversation, not a form. Culture, cohort, staffroom, where the school is headed. We listen until we understand what the role actually needs.
Teachers
Same depth on the other side. We work in partnership with all parties to ensure we are matching up your needs. We get to know you and take time to understand what you actually want.
Me
Two sides, one conversation. I work with the school and the teacher together rather than one after the other, so nobody is compromising to make it fit.
Run by the person who does the work.
I’m Jake Armitage. When you work with Armitage Collective you work with me. I take the brief, I make the calls, I sit across every shortlist, and I stay in touch long after the contract is signed. No handoffs, no layers.
Five years in education recruitment, all of it in Victorian schools, and a five-time award winner in that time. When you work with me you’re getting someone with a deep network and a real understanding of the market, who takes the time to understand exactly what you’re looking for and delivers just that.
Handpicked teachers for every kind of appointment.
Permanent & ongoing
Teachers, first and foremost. The appointment that shapes a faculty, and the one you live with for years. Graduates through to heads of department, every subject.
Fixed term
Twelve-month contracts, parental leave cover, a defined chapter with a known end date. Same shortlist, same standard as a permanent search.
Leadership & executive
Heads of department to principals. Discreet, calibrated, handled personally from first call to signed contract.
International & sponsorship
Teachers from the UK, Ireland, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. Most are placed before they land.
We measure placements in years, not start dates.
Armitage Collective launched in 2026, built on five years and thousands of conversations with Melbourne schools and teachers. The reviews that land here will be about how placements held up, not how fast they happened. Until the first ones arrive, judge us the old-fashioned way: pick up the phone and have a conversation.
Let’s find what you’re looking for.
One conversation, either side of the desk. Tell me what you’re trying to build and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.