Curriculum Innov & Leadership

Job type: Full time / From 20/01/2025 - 27/01/2027 Organisation: Schools (Government) Salary: Salary not specified Occupation: Teacher Reference: 1440158 Selection Criteria Educational 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, organisational 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.
Role The 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.
Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.
The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.
Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.
Responsibilities Typically, 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 Apply Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Child Safe Standards Victorian 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.
All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at: The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights.
The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools.
Location Profile Riddells Creek Primary School is a Foundation to Year 6 school that has served the local community for 160 years.
Located in the heart of Riddells Creek, the school is 57km from Melbourne in the Macedon Ranges Shire of Victoria.
We are proud of our strong community connections and global outlook.
Our school is situated on 6 acres of grounds, including a full-size football oval, soccer/rugby pitch, two basketball/netball courts, a sensory garden, a wide range of play equipment and a kitchen garden to support our Stephanie Alexander kitchen garden program.
Our school values are Caring, Respect, Integrity and Safety, and these are explicitly taught through our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) approach to learning and engagement.
We implement the Kimochi program as part of our wellbeing approach in Foundation to Year 2, to build student vocabulary and understanding of feelings, social interactions, how to respond to new or challenging situations and build resilience.
We embed the Respectful Relationships curriculum into our core learning program, and model respectful interactions in all that we do.
There are 278 students enrolled in our school, with a small number of our enrolments identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Our family backgrounds are predominantly Australian, with the next four countries of origin for our families being the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland, and Finland.
Our staffing profile consists of 18.4 equivalent full time teaching staff and 7.6 equivalent full time education support staff, comprised of the Principal, Assistant Principal, one Learning Specialist, 18 Classroom and Specialist Teachers and nine Education Support staff working in various administrative and student support roles.
Our specialist program subjects are STEM, Performing Arts, Physical Education, Visual Arts, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden and Auslan (as our language other than English).
The role of the Assistant Principal - Curriculum Innovation and Leadership will include leading the school educational strategic plan and providing coaching and mentoring to teachers and education support staff.
A minimum of 0.2 of this role will be active coaching in classrooms to improve teacher capacity and model best practice in the English and mathematics curriculum areas.
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