Assistant Principal-range 2

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal-Range 2

**Occupation**: Teacher

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: 1478584

**Location Profile**:
**Warralily Park Primary School (Interim Name) - Opening 2026**

**Location**: 170 Coastside Drive, Armstrong Creek, 3217

Warralily Park Primary School (interim name) is an exciting new school opening in **Term 1, 2026** to meet the needs of the growing Armstrong Creek community. Our school has been thoughtfully designed to foster a culture of high expectations, strong wellbeing, and excellence in learning, from the very first day.

**Key Features of the School**:
**State-of-the-art facilities**: Contemporary learning spaces designed to promote collaboration, creativity, and student engagement.

**Capacity**: Designed to enrol up to 650 students across Prep to Year 6 as the school grows.

**Co-located Kindergarten**:Warralily Park Kindergarten (interim name) will be co-located within the primary school, creating a strong early learning connection for families.

**Our Vision**:
Warralily Park Primary School will be a place where every child thrives academically, socially, and emotionally. We are committed to building a school culture that prioritises strong relationships, high-quality teaching, and relentless consistency across all learning environments.

Our approach will be underpinned by:

- ** Evidence-based teaching and learning frameworks**:

- ** A commitment to excellence and equity**:

- ** Community partnerships that strengthen and support families**

**Opportunities for Staff**:
As a foundation staff member, you will have a unique opportunity to help shape the culture, practices, and traditions of Warralily Park Primary School from the ground up. We are seeking passionate, high-performing educators who:

- Have a relentless focus on student engagement, wellbeing, and achievement
- Are committed to professional growth and collaborative practice
- Embrace innovation and contemporary approaches to learning and teaching
- Value consistency, clarity, and a collective responsibility for success
- Are excited to help build a vibrant, supportive school community

**Join Us**:
**Please submit Cover Letter, CV and SC as one document.**

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1: Educational leadership**

Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.

Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**SC2**:**Financial, managerial and administrative ability**

Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

**SC3: Planning, policy and program development and review**

Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.

Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.

An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.

**SC4**:**Leadership of staff and students**

A highly developed capacity 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.

**SC5: 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.

An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.

**SC6: Establishing and Sustaining a High-Performing School**

Demonstrated capacity to contribute to the establishment of a high-performing school culture focused on excellence, high achievement, and strong student engagement.

Ability to support the day-to-day management of the school and facilities, while building and maintaining a collaborative, aspirational, and consistent learning environment that sets high expectations for all students and staff.

**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.

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