Assistant Principal

Location: Geelong

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

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1453407

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC 1 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.

**SC 2 Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability**
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

**SC 3 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.

**SC 4 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.

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

**SC 6 Community Criteria**
- Demonstrated capacity to manage a secondary campus whilst providing oversight of a special education program from F-12.

**Role**:
The Assistant Principal for this role is responsible for the leadership/oversight and management of the secondary campus with the oversight of the specialist education enrolment across F-12.

The successful applicant needs to demonstrate ability to lead strategic planning, resourcing and confidence building in staff and student development. This role sits as part of an executive leadership team and will work closely with school improvement leaders.

**Responsibilities**:
The responsibilities of this position will be:

- Lead the strategic planning of our whole school Specialist Education setting with a daily focus of 7-12.
- Lead the daily planning, coordination and student participation in learning across 7-12.
- Align whole school resources to the support and learning of students across 7-12 while maintaining oversight of the enrolment and support from F-12
- Build sustained partnerships and linkages to career and workplace pathways for our students
- Provide coaching and support for all staff across the Secondary campus to build high quality practice
- Use data practices to monitor student growth and IEP achievement
- Align existing practice to DE policy and procedures
- Be the face of Secondary Education across the whole school building a profile of excellence across the community

**Who May Apply**:
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**VIT LANTITE**:
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

**Location Profile**:
Armstrong Creek School opened in January 2018 for students in Years Prep to 6. In 2019, the Secondary Special School