Principal Advisor, Education Services

1 month ago

Darling Downs, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
The Department of Education (DoE) is committed to delivering responsive services focused on equity and excellence to Queenslanders and their communities. We promote equity and excellence by our commitment to respect, protect and promote human rights. Our objectives are: a strong start for all children, every student realising their potential, fair and safe workplaces and communities, capable people delivering our vision. Our vision is one of equity and excellence in a progressive, high performing education system that realises the potential of every student.
**About the role**:As the Principal Advisor, Education Services you will**:

- Manage the regional activities and resources to effectively develop and implement strategic priorities and policy.
- Assess strategic issues and provide expert advice and support to the Executive Director and members of executive management to enable quality executive decision making.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Prepare and provide high level advice and support to senior officers across the region with respect to the implementation of strategic policy initiatives.
- Initiate, lead and manage teams and projects to successfully implement policy, guidelines and service implementation plans to ensure quality education service provision to all schools across the region.
- Monitor, analyse and evaluate activities and work practices within the functional area of the position to ensure alignment with system priorities and to inform future planning.
- Develop, lead and maintain key communication channels as required to facilitate effective communication activities with schools across the region.
- In collaboration with School Supervisors and the Director, facilitate access to required professional development activities, services and support for schools and regional office personnel as required.
- Establish and monitor performance and accountability frameworks including indicators, measures and reporting regimes related to education service delivery utilising key regional and school performance data.
- Implement and evaluate environmental scanning to identify policy gaps and develop appropriate response strategies, including the preparation of major policy papers, briefings, reports, submissions and articles.
- Establish and maintain professional and effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated approach to deliver on departmental priorities and initiatives.
- Maintain current knowledge of departmental policies and procedures, legislation and guidelines to enable the design, development and delivery of evidence-based practices.
- Actively contribute to the development and management of a range of integrated initiatives and provide input and solutions considering multiple influences, to inform and improve service delivery and support for schools.
- Prepare high-level briefing material, correspondence, reports, communication materials and project plans on implementation strategies, projects and services.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
**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 written statement in response to 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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