Assistant Principal-range 1

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2030

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1448926

**Location Profile**:
Reservoir East Primary School is an inclusive school of 275 students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. There is a high proportion of students for whom English is a Second Language and a significantly large number of First Nations students (35%). The school community values this diversity and supports students by offering a broad curriculum with a strong emphasis on interpersonal learning and culture. The school is justifiably proud of its ability to cater for a wide range of abilities and backgrounds giving rise to an ethos of tolerance, harmony, and inclusion.

Reservoir East Primary School is highly committed to improving the development of its staff and students and has much to celebrate. We use an evidence based approach and are committed to a science of reading and learning methodology incorporating a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS).

The vision of the school is to build a community of learners where students develop resilient life skills which allow them to learn, grow, and become active community participants. So if you want to be involved with a dynamic team with entrenched coaching practises, producing great results, please apply.

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

**(i) Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.**

**(ii) Highly developed skills in leading and managing change, including the leadership of others in the process of change.**

**SC2 Financial, managerial and administrative ability**

**(i) Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.**

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

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

**(ii) Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.**

**(iii) An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.**

**SC4 Leadership of staff and students**

**(i) A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.**

**(ii) A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps student to develop their special abilities and talents.**

**SC5 Interpersonal and communication skills**

**(i) Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.**

**(ii) Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.**

**(iii) An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.**

**SC6 Community Criteria**

**(i) Outstanding capacity to develop a positive whole school culture of inclusion and wellbeing, in which all students benefit from multi-tiered systems of support and evidence-based teaching that aligns with how students learn.**

**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 coordinators;
- allocation of budgets, positions of responsibility and other resources within the area of responsibility;
- supervision of the delivery of teaching programs;
- management of programs to improve the knowledge and experience of staff;
- responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers and year level coordinators;
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