Assistant Principal

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan Job type: Full time / From 20/01/2025 - 28/01/2029 Organisation: Schools (Government) **Salary**: Salary not specified Occupation: Teacher Reference: 1437476 **Location Profile**: Nossal High School is committed to being an innovative, inclusive, and dynamic educational environment. We challenge ourselves to be creative and critical thinkers with good communication skills and the resilience necessary to succeed in an ever-changing world. We build skills, self-confidence, leadership abilities and community spirit through a rigorous, rich, and varied curricular and co-curricular program. We want our graduates to be ambitious, ethical, and responsible citizens who conduct themselves with humility and compassion. Nossal High School Values Nossal is a school that: - Leads and develops leadership - Creates and cultivates creativity - Is respectful and fosters respectful citizenship - Inspires and seeks inspiration - Is ethical and develops ethical behaviours - Pursues excellence and celebrates individual progress - Develops resilience and independence and nurtures wellbeing - Encourages a strong work ethic with an emphasis on personal growth The Nossal High School logo consists of two books (representing academic study), forming a butterfly (emerging from a chrysalis), taking flight (signifying the future), and showing a link to the past (the school is built on the old Casey Airfield). The Nossal High School Motto - ¿Embrace the Challenge¿ This was the original statement presented to the foundation cohort on their introduction to their new school. It is a phrase that instils the hope and high expectations we have for Nossal students to grow in intellectual, social, physical and leadership pursuits. They have been thrown the challenge to succeed in a global world and we want them to embrace it. - To embrace: to hold closely, to accept with eagerness. - To challenge: a call to demonstrate one¿s strength or ability. (Oxford, 2010) On most comparative performance measures Nossal achieves very good results, and "traditional" improvement measures are more nuanced and incremental, requiring contextual understanding. Challenging and longer-term approaches to achieve cultural rather than transformative change is often required to enable such improvement. The school leadership team has always sought to challenge the school community and has set broad, big picture goals relating to curriculum and pedagogy; assessment; student voice; ICT; school culture and ethos. The school undertook a self-Evaluation in late 2022 and developed a new Strategic Plan early in 2023 following an "Influencing" review process. Nossal students (and their parents) are highly motivated, highly aspirational, and very committed to their academic education and VCE results and nearly all aspire to university entry. **Selection Criteria**: **KSC1 Educational Leadership** (i) Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college. (ii) Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.**KSC2 Financial, managerial and administrative ability** (i) Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.**KSC3 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.**KSC4 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 students to develop their special abilities and talents.**KSC5 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.**KSC6 Nossal Specific** (i) An understanding of the curriculum and pedagogical needs of academically talented students. (ii) The capacity to create, develop and lead innovative responses and programs to better meet the unique needs of the Nossal community.**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 significa