Dean of Professional Learning

**Role Description/Criteria**

**About Parade College**

Parade College is a member of the national body of Catholic schools known as Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA). The College aims to help young people grow into well-rounded individuals who will make a meaningful contribution to society. In a vibrant learning community, students are encouraged to explore and develop their talents to the fullest and aim for excellence in all their endeavours.

As a long-standing Catholic school in the Edmund Rice tradition, Parade College strives to be a learning community that offers best practice education and pastoral care to its students to foster fullness of life and holistic growth for all.

Parade College is the oldest Edmund Rice School in Australia, dating back to 1871, and has a proud history of excellence in the education and pastoral care. Parade offers a multitude of curriculum options for students, whatever their interest may be; from academic, sporting, music, visual arts and trade options.

The College is pleased to announce, our VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM) program at Parade College has become co-educational in 2025. The College welcomes full-time female student enrolments for the first time in our long history, into Year 11 in 2025. Starting in Term 1 2025, our VCE Vocational Major program, based at our Preston campus, has expanded our student offerings by introducing a new Tertiary Pathways Program. The Tertiary Pathways Program includes a second stream of our highly successful Sport Academy, along with a new Business Academy. Both academies provide a bespoke educational opportunity that allow students to gain direct entry into a number of undergraduate tertiary courses at La Trobe University upon completion of the two-year course.

The professional environment for staff at Parade College emphasises innovation, the importance of lifelong learning and quality relationships between staff, students and the College community.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified, highly motivated and innovative leaders for the position of Dean of Professional Learning.

**The Position**

One of the key elements of our Strategic Plan 2022-2026 Leadership and Management is to maintain and support staff wellbeing and development by promoting and modelling genuine collaboration. This is underpinned by a strong focus on cultivating a professional learning community, which is characterised by a shared vision, a strong commitment to teamwork and is focused on the continuous improvement of student learning outcomes. Central to this is, is a culture of continuous professional growth that is committed to the wellbeing of all members of our community.

The Dean of Professional Learning is responsible for leading the teacher accreditation and quality teaching agenda while developing teacher practice aligned with the Professional Standards for Teachers. This is a senior leadership position leading the improvement of teacher pedagogy.

The Dean of Professional Learning will, in leading the Coaching and Support Team (CST) establish supportive learning relationships with members of the teaching staff for the enhancement of learning and teaching in line with strategic directions of the College.

**Teaching and Learning at Parade College**

Learning at Parade College inspires a commitment and spirit that is both personalised and life-long. Gifts and talents are celebrated equally but paramount to all this is the reality that learning takes place within a collective sphere of mutual support and a deep desire to achieve the very best.

Teaching and Learning at Parade College has, over 150 years, developed both the capacity and capability of providing dynamic learning that caters for the students’ spiritual, academic, social, emotional and physical development. A vibrant professional teaching and learning culture exists and grows. Students are supported in their studies by highly qualified, experienced and committed staff.

Our curriculum continues to blend the best of educational traditions with the latest in cutting edge theory, practice and design. Our classrooms are contemporary, technology-rich learning environments, suitably well-resourced and designed to both encourage and exploit a wide variety of teaching and learning preferences.

Please view the Position Description for further details about the role and the selection criteria.

**Application Requirements**

Applications must include:

- a **covering letter** addressing the **Key Selection Criteria** addressing your skills, qualifications and experience relevant to the role; together with
- a current **Curriculum Vitae**.

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 4:00pm on Monday 27 October 2025.**
- This community is committed to the safety, wellbeing and protection of all children in our care._
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