Deputy Principal

4 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

About West End State School
West End State School boasts a student body of over 1450 pupils and connections with neighbouring Brisbane State High School. West End State School celebrates its multicultural identity. The school achieves high standards by challenging students with high expectations, delivering high quality, focused teaching, promoting engaged learning. The well-designed curricula leverage West End's proximity to Queensland's flagship educational and cultural institutions to offer students a wide range of opportunities and experiences. The school places a strong emphasis on creative, age appropriate, inquiry-based learning across all key learning area, utilising technology to accelerate learning. This approach fosters active and creative students who genuinely take ownership of their learning.
About You
The Deputy Principal will assist the Principal by providing strategic, ethical leadership that inspires and influences others. It is expected that the successful applicant will work collaboratively with the members of the large leadership team to pursue and achieve a shared educational vision focussed on providing high quality learning for all students.

**The successful applicant will have the following attributes**:
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- A high performer in a team environment
- Sets high standards for student and staff performance
- Forges strong partnerships with parents and members of the broader school community, particularly ECECs
- Manages systems to support student engagement and wellbeing
- Manages systems to support pre-prep initiatives, early years transitions and age appropriate pedagogy across the school
- An exceptional instructional leader that possesses outstanding communication skills, and consistently delivers powerful results across the early primary years.

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

- Assist the Principal to lead the school community to develop, articulate and commit to a shared educational vision focussed on providing quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Deputise for the Principal when required.
- Uphold the deputy principalship as a values based, ethical and moral activity.
- Embed socially just practices in daily school life.
- Set high standards for student and staff performance.
- Actively participate in lifelong learning and ongoing professional development.
- Form partnerships with parents, other government agencies, community groups, industry and business.
- Be futures oriented and strategic.
- Understand the legislation and policies that impact on schooling.
- Manage resources to achieve goals.

**A mandatory requirement of this role is**:
**How to Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you will/may be assessed section of 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.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.


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