Head of School

8 hours ago

Logan City, Australia Education Full time

About the School
Marsden State High School is an outstanding school with an excellent reputation. Our school symbolises high quality public school education in the Logan area. Our school culture is founded on high performance expectations and personalised attention. Our core values of persistence, passion and pride underpin everything that makes Marsden State High School so unique. Our school offers a comprehensive learning environment led by passionate and engaging teachers working together to deliver outstanding achievements across the academic, sporting, cultural and creative industries fields.
About the Role
We are looking for a passionate professional who can lead the Junior School to ensure that our students are given every opportunity through equity and excellence to achieve their individual goals. The successful person will be able to work as part of an extensive leadership team to contribute to the successful attainment of Marsden State High Schools explicit improvement agenda.

**As the Head of School, your key responsibilities will include**:

- Leadership of the curriculum of this department to ensure that our students are given every opportunity to successfully achieve.
- Leading the support structures of the Junior School to ensure that each student is known and catered for.
- Leading the Junior School (Years 7 -9) to articulate and commit to a shared educational vision focussed on providing quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Identifying and implementing practices that focus on continually improving services and student outcomes.
- Using the outcomes of evaluations including the feedback of staff, students, and other stakeholders, lead the continuous improvement of Marsden State High School
- Setting high standards for student and staff performance.
- Actively encourage and participate in lifelong learning and ongoing professional development.
- Embedding socially just practices in daily school life.
- Forming partnerships with students, parents, other relevant industry and community groups.

For a full list of mandatory requirements please see the attached role description.

**Interested? To apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor)
- Attach a maximum 2 page written response outlining your suitability for the role relating to the responsibilities listed above, while referring to the key capabilities under the "how you will be assessed' section in the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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