Administration Manager

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 22/01/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 1449874

**Location Profile**:
Merri Creek Primary School was established in 1891 and is situated on the banks of the Merri Creek in Fitzroy North, an inner urban Melbourne suburb. Enrolments sit around 440 students. Classes are single year level structures and include Foundation, Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. There is one Year 3/4 composite most years to allow for the differences in required class sizes between the junior and senior school.

The school strategic planning reflects the school community's high expectations for literacy and numeracy learning with a focus on ensuring teacher capacity to differentiate teaching to provide challenge and progress for every student, to embed consistent assessment practices that analyse and monitor the impact of learning to inform teacher practice and directions and establishing visible partnerships with the parent community through digital portfolios, to align with assessment and reporting.

Teachers use clear explanations to teach through modelling/guiding practice, through worked examples, and effectively supporting students in learning. By breaking down complex concepts into manageable parts, providing explicit instruction on each component and checking for understanding before gradually releasing responsibility to students, teachers can develop a solid foundation of understanding. Independent student work is carefully placed within a larger instructional sequence.

Merri Creek Primary School strives to provide a student-centred, stimulating learning environment that promotes rigour, curiosity, diversity and actively engages students in their learning through developing their physical, social and emotional wellbeing.

Specialist teachers provide a Language program, Music program (rock bands and musical performances), a Visual Arts program and Library. Merri Creek Primary School students engage in a range of creative pursuits, and we proudly celebrate their talents through displaying their work and conducting music performances at weekly assembly. We have a school arts festival on alternate years.

All class teachers collaborate in their teaching and learning teams to provide Physical Education. The teaching staff share ideas, knowledge, and plan together in professional learning teams focused on team and whole school planning and improvement. Students in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 participate in annual camps, 5 and 6 students participate in inter-school sports, Foundation
- Year 5 students participate in swimming lessons annually. An Out of School Hours Music program employs teachers of piano, flute, violin, guitar, drums, voice and recorder to teach students after school in individual or shared lessons.

The school values are CARE, Creativity, Acceptance of diversity and difference, Responsibility and Effort and school rules simply allow everyone to learn and to feel safe at school.

**Community**

We have a largely educated and professional community and education is greatly valued by parents, carers and students. There are high expectations as to student achievement and wellbeing. Families collaborate for the benefit of all the students, school programs and facilities. Families participate in the daily life of Merri Creek Primary School. These include formal and informal participation through membership of School Council and its sub-committees; working in classroom programs; actively working to improve the physical environment; fundraising and assisting with parent information and education. The high level of parent involvement in the school is greatly valued and encouraged.

**Selection Criteria**:
SC1 Demonstrate high level written, verbal and technological communication abilities.

SC2 Demonstrate interpersonal skills that include a capacity to develop constructive relationships with staff, students and parents.

SC3 Demonstrate the capacity to build strong relationships with community and business partners.

SC4 Demonstrate high level competency and understanding of Compass and DE software including CASES21 and the associated internal controls, policy, procedures and guidelines that are to be adhered to.

SC5 Demonstrate capacity to provide high level organisational and management skills to support a busy school setting and its business practices.

**Role**:
Range 3 is distinguished by the introduction of management responsibility and accountability for the delivery of professional support services. The role will usually impact beyond the work area or professional field. It seeks to gain cooperation of other staff members or members of the school community to achieve specific objectives, such as in school administration, operations or educational programs.

Direction on targets and goals is provided but the position will have some degree of latitude in determining