Assistant Principal-Range 1 Curriculum and Student ManagementJob posted: 20/12/2024
Job type: Full time / From 17/02/2025 - 16/02/2027
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Reference: 1460487
Closes: 30/01/2025
Location ProfileOutstanding opportunity to work in a P.Y.P. School in Tarneit/Werribee. Davis Creek Primary School is a new co-educational Prep to Year 6 that opened in 2020. Over this time, we have grown rapidly due to our positive reputation within our local community of Tarneit. We have rapidly grown from 253 students to over 900 students in 2024. Tarneit is a thriving multi-cultural community positioned only 25km from the CBD of Melbourne.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, positive, and passionate Assistant Principal (Curriculum) to work as part of the school team and school community to contribute to our collaborative culture at our school.
Davis Creek Primary School aims to build a school culture that demonstrates a strong belief in and a commitment to providing a rich and rigorous curriculum within a safe, secure and enriched learning environment for our children. We implement the Primary Years Programme as a rich, authentic, rigorous curriculum framework. Professional learning and training will be provided. Our core mission promotes a mindset of international mindedness, and provides a supportive, nurturing and challenging learning environment, with high expectations for student success.
Selection CriteriaEducation leadership:
Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.Financial, managerial and administrative ability:
Outstanding financial, organisation and resource management skills.Planning, policy and program development and review:
Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.Leadership of staff and students:
A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.Interpersonal and communication skills:
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.School specific criteria:
Demonstrated curriculum and pedagogical knowledge to lead the teaching and learning of mathematics across foundation to year six.RoleThe assistant principal reports directly to the principal. Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget.
ResponsibilitiesTypically, assistant principals perform one or more of the following functions:
supervision and coordination of the work of senior curriculum or level coordinators;allocation of budgets, positions of responsibility and other resources within the area of responsibility;supervision of the delivery of teaching programs;management of programs to improve the knowledge and experience of staff;responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers and year level coordinators;contribute to the overall management of the school;Who May ApplyAppropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Child Safe StandardsVictorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards.
VIT LANTITETo be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements.
Contact:Renee Liprino | (03) 9749 9800
To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Schools (Government) job application system.
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