Assistant Principal

Location: North West Region | Maryborough

Job type: Full time / From 27/02/2023 - 26/02/2026

Organisation: Education and Training

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1328849

**Selection Criteria**:
**1. Educational leadership**
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**2. Financial, managerial and administrative ability**

1. Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

**3. 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.

**4. 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.

**5. 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.

**6.** **Maryborough Education Centre Criterion**
- Demonstrated ability to work with the local community with a view to improving student attendance.
- Ability to liaise effectively with external agencies to meet the learning and social needs of children experiencing vulnerability.

**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.

**Who May Apply**:
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
**DET Values**:
**Other Information**:

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

**VIT LANTITE**:
To 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. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

**Location Profile**:
Maryborough Education Centre is a school where the children and the youth of this community can learn and grow in a supportive, respectful and inclusive environment, where everyone is on a strong learning journey, and where positive and supportive relationships form the basis of all our work. We consistently empower students to strive for challenging aspirations. Students are supported in following their interests and passions through multiple pathways that will successfully lead to positive outcomes in further education, training or employment. The school has a key role in supporting, and working with the wider community in meeting the challenges faced by Maryborough and district. We have a commitment to Collective Impact and the empowerment of the co