The phrase "as the first head" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to someone or something that holds the primary or leading position in a hierarchy or organization.
Example: "As the first head of the department, she implemented several innovative policies that transformed the workplace."
Alternatives: "in the primary role" or "as the initial leader".
He was appointed as the first head (i.e., secretary) of the Smithsonian Institution, as he was considered the foremost scientist in America at the time (1846).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when he hired the famed stock manipulator Joseph P. Kennedy as the first head of the S.E.C., said, "Set a thief to catch a thief".
A. D. Miles had never worked on a talk show when he was hired as the first head writer for "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon".
Meanwhile on December 6th, King Abdullah of Jordan is set to arrive in Ramallah as the first head of state to visit the new non-member state.
Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and later served as the first head (1917 24) of the Soviet state, died.
Actually, it was probably more, as the first head of DLO, General Sir Sam Cowan, was ordered to cut by 25% in each of his first three years.
As Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of state of the reborn republic, put it during the celebrations, "they offered a reform of the prison regime.
Breakers coach Shawn Patchell added that the league bylaws reward the league's No. 1 seed to the team that loses the least amount of sets, as the first head-to-head tiebreaker.
As he held the first head up and made the customary announcement, the crowd reacted with horror and fled.
It is strange how much can change in a year, a peripatetic period for Monk bookended by Swansea City's highest league finish and his appointment as the seventh head coach of Leeds United since the spring of 2014.
In February, Justice Lowell Goddard was named as the third head of the inquiry.
