Kindergarten Teacher

Posted: 18/11/2024

Closing Date: 09/02/2025

Salary: $66,526.67 - $66,526.67

Job Type: Temporary

Location: St Arnaud

Job Category: Education and Training

**_Victorian Government incentives of $9,000 are available for this role for eligible qualified early childhood teachers and educators who are moving from interstate or overseas to take the role OR have not worked as a teacher or educator in the sector for the past 12 months_**

**Vacancy Details**:
**Position**:

- Kindergarten Teacher

**Job Type**:

- Part Time - 32 hours per week

**Tenure**:

- Temporary - to 27 January 2026

**Location**:

- St Arnaud

**Package**:

- $66,526.67 per annum pro rata plus superannuation

**Download Position Description**:

- Kindergarten Teacher

**Applications Close**:

- Sunday 9th February 2025

**About Northern Grampians Shire Council**

Northern Grampians Shire Council has a diverse employment base, across 14 worksites in the Grampians Region of Victoria. We offer flexible work arrangements, providing access to relevant training and professional development opportunities with a variety of employee benefits. We promote innovation, responsiveness, respectfulness and continuous improvement as our core values. Being a smaller organisation, we can provide you with opportunities to act in leadership roles, transition between teams and participate in a range of collaborative projects with other team members or the wider community. We provide a supportive and flexible environment that values the balance between work and our employees' personal lives.

**Why join us?**

In addition to the picturesque landscapes at our backdoor, there are many other benefits to working for our innovative and vibrant Northern Grampians Shire Council. These include:

- **Fortnightly RDO**: Enjoy a well-deserved break and rejuvenate.
- **Great Team Environment**: A safe, respectful and supportive environment to enable you to thrive. You will work with like-minded, passionate individuals who love what they do.
- **Professional Growth**: We nurture talent and provide opportunities to flourish.
- **Flexible Work Arrangements**: To support your work life balance.
- **Salary Packaging Options**: Including remote area housing allowances and novated lease vehicles
- A**ccess to Paid Leave**: including purchased leave, paid parental leave, gender affirmation leave and to respond to family violence matters
- **Employee Assistance Program**: Your well-being matters - we've got you covered.
- **Biodiversity**: Explore our Council region's varied flora and fauna

**Position objectives**

This position provides a high quality innovative, developmentally appropriate, kindergarten program which meets the individual needs of children.

**Key responsibility areas**
- Develop and provide a high quality, developmentally appropriate educational curriculum within the guidelines of the National and Victorian Early Years Learning Framework.
- Ensure the Centre’s environment promotes the National and Victorian Early Years Learning Framework and the five National and Victorian Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes.
- Ensure the kindergarten is inclusive of children and their families through provision of a healthy, safe and welcoming environment.
- Develop, record and maintain specific objectives for individual children based on written observation across all aspects of each child’s development and link specific objectives for these children into the curriculum, sharing information with families, as required.
- Respect the confidentiality of information relating to families and children and comply with all relevant Council privacy policies and Education and Care Services National Regulations (2012).
- Perform, as directed, other duties that are within the limits of the incumbents’ skill, competence and training.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**Qualifications and experience**
- Bachelor in Early Childhood Education and current registration with Victorian Institute of Teaching, or the ability to obtain.
- Required to hold and maintain a current Level 2 First Aid qualification, including CPR, Anaphylaxis Management and Asthma Management Training.

**Selection criteria**
- A sound understanding and knowledge of early childhood development and education.
- Ability to develop, document and implement a developmentally appropriate education program for preschool children with parental involvement
- Ability to communicate effectively with carers, other staff and professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to present written documentation in a clear, concise and methodical manner.
- A commitment to maintaining a thorough understanding of the Frameworks and to use them in all planning and implementation.

**Government Incentives**

**How to apply**
- Download and read the position description.
- Attach a**resume**and** cover letter briefly addressing the key selection criteria.**:
Applications close 5.00pm Sunday 9th February 2025

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