Debating Assistant

3 days ago

Sydney, Australia Ravenswood School for Girls Full time

Ravenswood School for Girls is a Uniting Church Prep to Year 12 day and boarding school for girls located on Sydney’s North Shore. Ravenswood offers both the HSC and the IB Diploma Programme as well as the PYP in the Junior School. It is a school where staff enjoy a range of benefits that foster health and wellbeing, and students achieve outstanding academic success supported by innovative teaching practices that are underpinned by a whole school approach to Positive Education.

We are seeking a Debating Assistant to join our co-curricular team on a casual basis. Working closely with our Debating Convenor, this role will attend the debates with our students each Friday afternoon and evening in Terms 1 and 2, and Tuesday afternoon and evening in Term 2 and 3, to ensure the smooth running of the debating program. The debates are held at various schools and locations including onsite at Ravenswood. The hours are 3.30pm – 10pm and the finish time may vary slightly each week depending upon where the debate is being held.

At Ravenswood, we wish to excite students' interest in pursuing their studies both in the classroom and through co-curricular experiences. The successful applicant will have demonstrated experience working with students, teachers, parents and external parties in a school setting.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ability to follow any Debating competition rules and regulations whilst working within school procedures;
- Experience communicating with students, teachers, parents and external parties;
- Experience with Microsoft Office suite and ability to use other web-based management applications;
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team;
- Experience participating in, coaching or organising Debating in a school or other setting;
- Experience with management systems such as Clipboard and Synergetic.

To Apply:

Please include a cover letter as the first page of your resume. All applications must be submitted via the recruitment platform.

Ravenswood School for Girls is dedicated to maintaining a child safe environment and is committed to the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children.

Shortlisted applicants will be required to provide the School with their Working With Children Check number in order to be eligible for this position.

Applications close: 4pm Monday 20 January 2025

Ravenswood will begin to review applications prior to the application closure date. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply promptly.

If you have any questions: please contact Kathy Stewart by email, kstewart@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au

Ravenswood is a Uniting Church, Positive Education and IB World School.

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