Head of Department
6 months ago
About the Department of Education
The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About Coombabah State High School
We are a friendly and inclusive learning community - we promote belonging.Our students are encouraged to embrace learning and achieve their personal best. Our broad curriculum, excellence programs and extensive range of extra-curricular activities challenge and inspire.The strong, supportive relationships we have with our school and wider community are key to our students achieving their personal pathway to success.
About You
About the Role
The Head of Department - Student Engagement will be responsible for working with the Executive Principal and the Leadership and Management Team to enact the school's ongoing improvement agenda. The successful applicant will significantly contribute to a high expectations school culture that is focussed on continuous improvement to maximise each student's performance and potential. This will be achieved through proactively developing the growth of students with your cohort by tracking and connecting their academic and social outcomes to provide a holistic view of each student.You will be instrumental in working as part of the school's leadership team to provide targeted and timely interventions to maximise each students' learning. You will develop and nurture positive working relationships with, and between, students, parents and staff to personalise education for individual students in a large and complex school community.
As the Head of Department - Student Engagement, you will have responsibility for but not limited to the following:
- Setting and maintaining high standards for student performance by leading your cohort to uphold the values of CSHS with a specific focus on improving learning outcomes and fostering a growth mindset.
- Providing leadership and guidance for the implementation of innovative measures aimed at improving student learning outcomes and attendance ensuring quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Leading a PBL culture of developing effective learning behaviours that enable each student to develop intellectually, personally and socially.
- Accessing, tracking, connecting and analysing student data on a weekly/term/semester basis to target improvements in academic and social outcomes.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to Apply
- Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
- A 2-pg response to the How you will be Assessed section of the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
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.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
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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