Learning Specialist

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:1488527

**Location Profile**:

- Kolorer College is a brand-new secondary school being built 33km west of the Melbourne CBD in the suburb of Cobblebank. The school will serve the diverse and growing communities of Strathtulloh, Cobblebank and Thornhill Park and will open for Year 7 students only on Day 1, Term 1, 2026, growing to a Year 7-12 school by 2031. Anticipated enrolments for 2026 are 150-175 students, with a Stage 1 built capacity for 865 students.

**Our School**
- Kolorer College will be a supported inclusion school and will feature outstanding facilities including:

- A two-story building with administration spaces, a library and learning neighbourhood
- A Community Hub with specialist learning areas for Food Technology, the Performing Arts and Physical Education, including an indoor multi-use court and a fitness room
- These facilities will enable our school to offer high-quality learning to our students and a modern work environment to our staff.
- Kolorer, a Wurundjeri word meaning lava flow, embodies the powerful transformation and enduring impact we foster in every young person we serve.
- At Kolorer College, we know that inclusion creates better outcomes for everyone. We are unashamedly ambitious for our students and committed to excellence, learning and growth for all students and staff.
- Guided by our conviction that learning matters, our mission is clear:

- Equip every learner with the knowledge, skills and confidence to lead a life full of purpose and possibility
- Build strength of character, empowering our learners to be thoughtful, informed and active contributors to their community and to world
- Foster a community of belonging that supports and challenges every student, every day.
- We live our values every day by being our **B.E.S.T.**:

- ** Be Brave**:

- face challenges with courage and persistence
- ** Excel Together**-aim high, support one another, and celebrate growth
- ** Show Integrity** - act with honesty, fairness, and responsibility
- ** Think and Care** - use wisdom, empathy, kindness and respect to guide our actions, embrace and celebrate the differences and diversity of others.
- Our motto, Excellence Together, reflects this mission and we are strongly committed to the use of evidence-based best practice in teaching, learning and wellbeing to make this a reality. This is an exciting opportunity for you to be part of shaping a learning community where all students
- and staff - are known, challenged to grow, and inspired to thrive.
- Please note that, as a progressive and modern workplace, part-time and flexible work opportunities in line with DE policies will be available to all staff members, including those in the Leadership team. Feel free to contact the Principal, Ciar Foster, to discuss these possibilities.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Please provide a written response to each written criteria of no more than 1 page.
- Preferred documentation format in a single PDF document.

**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.

**SC2** Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary ability to model the monitoring and assessment of student learning. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.

**SC6** Demonstrated capacity to establish and lead evidence-based student engagement, learning and wellbeing practices which foster a culture of excellence for all students.

**Role**:

- Learning Specialists will be highly skilled classroom practitioners who continue to spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high-quality teaching and learning and have a range of responsibilities related to their expertise, including teaching demonstration lessons, observing and providing feedback to other teachers and facilitating s