Head of Department

3 weeks ago

Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

About the School
Brisbane School of Distance Education is committed to pursuing our vision of 'Excellence in Virtual Learning'. We strive to provide highly engaging learning opportunities for each student to succeed through innovation, inspiration and inclusion. Our school is a world leader in the delivery of online learning to a student population of approximately 4000 students. Through the innovative use of digital technology, we provide cutting edge live group lessons including support materials with a focus on each student succeeding. We aim to create a powerful whole school infrastructure where meaningful, collaborative professional teams engage in constructive dialogue, reflect on practice and take collective responsibility for the improvement of all student learning. At the heart of the school, and at the core of all that we do, are the young people in our care.
About the Role
The Head of Department - Teaching and Learning works with the Head of Department Pathways and Engagement and provides strategic leadership and analytical tracking of student performance with a specific responsibility to:

- Manage, maintain and configure our online recording systems of Compass/TRAX.
- Generate and provide performance data through Compass/TRAX/TrackED/PowerBi to track student performance.
- Lead a whole school Data Plan/ Data Inquiry Cycles.
- Lead whole school Goal Setting processes.
- Manage Whole School Timetabling.
- Create staffing plans to meet the needs of the school.
- Develop and monitor Budget.
- Conduct Annual Performance Review.
- Manage staff.
- Know the students - Home based and School based.
- Liaise with home based supervisors and school based supervisors.

Performance Data
- Lead a school data team to ensure the implementation and communication of the data plan
- Develop class data cycles for teachers to identify student performance issues, interventions and referrals
- Develop an effective goal-setting/feedback cycle
- Improve and maintain the Compass/TRAX data providing regular PD and updates to teachers on its best use
- Further review, develop and implement the whole school data plan
- Provide regular performance and attendance data at regular junctures
- Lead professional learning on data literacy
- Work collaboratively with other HODS to ensure a line of sight that links the data to teacher pedagogy and teaching quality

Compass
- Administrator
- Roll marking and absence policy and coordinator
- Work with Compass to incorporate new reports for senior students

Timetabling
- Resolving student timetable clashes and issues
- Day to day changing of staff and inputting new staff
- Day to day creation and collapsing of classes
- Reviewing the set-up of the timetable to ensure that it meets changing school needs

OneSchool
- Administrator - adding staff, permissions and reset PINs
- Configuration of OneSchool for student data and use

Skills and Qualities
- Knowledge and understanding of digital pedagogies
- Ability to lead collaborative practice with staff and work collaboratively in a team
- Adaptive leader
- Effective communicator
- High level of data literacy

**Other Responsibilities**:

- Create staffing plans to meet the needs of the school
- Develop and monitor Budget
- Conduct Annual Performance Review

For a full list of mandatory requirements please see the attached role description.

**Interested? To apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
- Attach a maximum 2 page written response outlining your suitability for the role referring to the key capabilities under the " how you will be assessed" section in the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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