Head of Department

3 weeks ago

Gold Coast, Australia Education Full time

(Image sourced from Southport State High School)

**About the School**:
Southport State High School has over 260* full
- and part-time staff, volunteers, contractors and community support representatives providing quality education and care in a clean, safe and supportive environment for your student.
Our support services include career guidance, indigenous support, school nurse, computer technicians, science technicians, teacher aides, janitorial and grounds staff, cleaners and office staff.
Our deans are dedicated to junior and senior students and they work closely with students and their families to resolve support issues and look after student well-being.

**About the Role**:
You will have responsibility for leading the following activities and delivery of the following key tasks:

- Lead the consistent implementation of the Southport State High Teaching and Learning Model
- Lead the schools coaching, mentoring, observation and feedback process, Collegial Engagement
- Support faculty pedagogical approaches to improve student outcomes
- Lead the development and implementation of the whole school professional learning plan
- Conduct Academic Board processes to quality assure assessment from Year 7 to 12
- Co-manage the Beginning Teachers and pre-service teacher programs
- Co-lead the implementation of Study Skills strategies with the Schooling HODs from Year 7 to 12
- Lead the Annual Performance Review process across the school
- Other activities relating to Head of Department responsibilities at the discretion of the Principals when required.
- Demonstrated teaching competence and capacity to provide curriculum leadership leading to the achievement of quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and the capacity to develop and sustain productive relationships within and beyond the school community.
- Capacity to use analytical skills to contribute to educational outcomes at the school level.
- Capacity to manage effectively human, financial and physical resources to deliver high quality organisational outcomes.
- Demonstrated support for and the capacity to develop and maintain an organisational culture based on ethical professional and personal behaviours and corporate values.

**Interested? To apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor)
- Attach a maximum 2 page written response outlining your suitability for the role referring to the key capabilities identified 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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