Principal Education Officer

4 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
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 the Role**:
The Educational Leadership team, within Education Futures Institute, Capability Branch is responsible for delivering four flagship programs including Middle Leaders, Aspiring Principals, Beginning Principals and Experienced Principals.

**The Principal Education Officer plays a key role in**:

- Consultation, co-design and facilitation of cohesive approaches to capability development for educational leaders aligned with professional standards and organisational priorities
- Leading implementation of research-based quality-assured educational leadership development initiatives
- Supporting engagement, partnerships and collaboration with school, regional and system leaders, key internal and external partners and stakeholders
- Contributing to educational leadership across a variety of sectors including primary, secondary, special, outdoor and environment education centres and alternate educational settings.

Two (2) Principal Education Officer (EOSD) positions are available from Term 2, 2024 until the end of Term 2, 2026 within the Educational Leadership team.

**The ideal applicant is someone who**:

- Understands the vision and strategic directions of the Department of Education
- Has a track record of developing leadership capability opportunities through enhanced professional knowledge, practice and engagement
- Have applied knowledge of the Departments School performance planning, monitoring, reviewing and reporting and experience in contributing to school improvement
- Demonstrates an understanding of the Australian Professional Standards for teachers and principals as a framework to support school leadership professional learning.

**Mandatory Requirements**:

- You must be a permanent employee of the department with a substantive teaching or classified officer role employed under Teaching in State Education Award - State 2016, have current full registration as a teacher and should be aware that temporary internal moves for the purposes of the department's payroll processes are referred to as internal secondments.
- Employees' engaged temporarily as Education Officer - Special Duties have a requirement of 36¼ hours per week attendance and arrangements as outlined in clause 7.4 of the Department of Education State School Teachers Certified Agreement 2019.

**Interested? 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 response outlining your suitability for the role in response to the attached role description and within the context of the role as described above.

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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