Assistant Principal

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Part time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal-Range 1

**Occupation**: Education and Training

**Location**: Shepparton

**Reference**: 1476149

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC 1 EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP**
- Capacity to create visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.
- Advanced skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.
- Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of school goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance.
- Demonstrated ability to manage the quality of teaching and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration.

**SC 2 MANAGERIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ABILITY**
- Demonstrated ability to support a student's mental health, wellbeing or learning by developing and maintaining connection with external services.
- Demonstrated capacity to ensure that the school's human resources are efficiently allocated and managed.

**SC 3 PLANNING, POLICY AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEW**
- Model values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve quality student outcomes.
- Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change.
- Demonstrated capacity to create a professional learning community that is focused on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, supporting all staff to achieve high standards and commitment to their own learning and wellbeing.

**SC 4 LEADERSHIP OF STAFF AND STUDENTS**
- The aptitude to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
- A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.
- Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies relating to mental health, wellbeing or learning.

**SC 5 INTERPERSONAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS**
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.
- Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate by gaining buy-in and ownership for ideas, gaining agreement to proposals, or involving experts or other third parties to strengthen a case.
- Demonstrated capability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, other employees and the broader school community to focus on student learning, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC 6 ENGAGEMENT AND WELLBEING**
- Demonstrate the leadership capabilities to support student well-being and engagement and build effective relationships with all members of a diverse community.
- Demonstrated high-level knowledge and expertise to lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of engagement and wellbeing initiatives within an education setting to improve student outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to inform and influence the work of others involved in the engagement, mental health, wellbeing or learning of children and young people.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with staff to implement Department and other wellbeing initiatives, including mental health and disability inclusion.
- Experience using a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to enhance student outcomes through targeted intervention and support.

**Role**:
The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.

Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget. Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.

The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.

Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.

**Responsibilities**:
Typically, assistant principals perform one or more of the following functions:

- supervision and coordination of the work of senior curriculum or level coordi