Assistant Principal

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Education Full time

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time / From 22/05/2023 - 04/07/2025

Organisation: Education

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1339846

**Selection Criteria**:
**Educational Leadership**
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a special school
- 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 demonstrated capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students disabilities to develop and maximise their 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.

**Ongoing committment to Leadership in a Special Developmental Setting**
- Highly developed understanding of Assistant Principal roles within a Special Developmental School setting demonstrated by a minimum of 5 years experience as an Assistant Principal.
- A demonstrated Capacity to lead and Implement welfare supports to staff, students and families within a Special Developmental School setting.
- Has a minimum of a Masters Degree in Special Education.

**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**:
Teachers with a commitment to Special Education.

**Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.**:
**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
The Department values diversity and is committed to workforce diversity and equal opportunity in schools and all education workplaces. The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces.

**Child Safe Standards**:
**DET Values**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**Location Profile**:
Merriang Special Developmental School is a dual campus, government specialist school located in the City of Whittlesea.

The Later Years Campus and main administration offices are located in Duncan Rd Lalo


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