Stem Program and Project Facilitator

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1433349

**Location Profile**:
Monash Tech School is one of ten Tech Schools established across Victoria. It is a funded initiative through the Statewide Programs and Tech Schools Division in the Department of Education. Hosted by Monash University and administered by John Monash Science School its partners include Year 7-12 secondary schools, specialist education schools, Monash Children's Hospital School and one Year 10-12 Science and Mathematics School, in addition to the City of Monash, Holmesglen Institute, CSIRO and several industry and research partners.

Monash Tech School offers dedicated programs that offer students new STEM opportunities, whether they be incursions, excursions, industry workplace tours, public lectures, or maker faires.

Monash Tech School operates from a state-of-the-art facility located at Monash University's Clayton campus.

Monash Tech School has a strong commitment to child safety. This role requires your commitment to ensuring Child Safe policies are adhered to and the safety of children is paramount. Monash Tech School is committed to the Child Safe standards, and continuously working to ensure that our students feel safe and are safe.

**THE PROGRAMS**

Monash Tech School continues to design groundbreaking learning programs that challenge students to create high-tech solutions to real-world problems experienced in Victoria¿s strategic sectors. Our first programs, Superhumans, Superpowers, and Superhealth have developed strong connections to the i) Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals, ii) New Energy, and iii) Professional Services (Entrepreneurship) sectors. Our 2024 programs, Superspace and Supercyber, have diversified our offerings and encourage Years 7-9 students to consider working in the space and cybersecurity sectors. We aim to commence the development of Superproducts in 2024, for launch in Term 4, 2024. In addition, as part of a new initiative
- the Beyond stream
- we have expanded co-delivery of programs at participating partner school sites.

Our Industry Immersions offers students from Partner Schools opportunities to explore pathways to industry. The Superjobs and Superskills Programs provide primary and high school students in Non-Partner Schools with opportunities to learn remotely about jobs of the future.

Design thinking provides the framework for each program and ensures students develop an awareness of careers in the strategic sectors, the hands-on skills to use emerging technologies and experience opportunities to develop their cognitive and social capabilities. Consequently, students learn new methods for observation, reframing, ideation, prototyping and how to pitch their concepts.

**THE TEAM**

Our team is driven by the desire to:

- Design the best programs and experiences for students
- Facilitate our programs to encourage collaboration
- Inspire learners to use new technologies
- Make learning fun and exciting

**Selection Criteria**:

- Monash Tech School is presently seeking to employ a **Classroom Teacher** as a facilitator. The role will comprise of main duties common to facilitators, and an individual area of responsibility.

The teacher will have appropriate qualifications and relevant experience in Science, Technology, or Design Technologies with a desire to integrate Design Thinking into their practice.

**SC2** Demonstrated understanding of the Tech Schools initiative and its potential impact on STEM in Victoria.

**SC4** Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student engagement data and to use this data to inform teaching for improved student learning.

**SC5** **Demonstrated high-level written and verbal communication skills and high-level interpersonal skills including the ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with other employees and the broader school community to focus on student learning, wellbeing, and engagement.

**SC6** **Demonstrated knowledge of a range of resources, including STEM-specific resources, that engage students in their learning. Demonstrated capacity to learn and research new digital or STEM technologies for the classroom and implement findings within effective learning sequences.

**Role**:

- You are optimistic about the future of education and thrive in a collaborative environment. You¿re comfortable with being in new environments and embrace the ambiguity of being in a new workplace. A quick learner, you go out of your way to help others succeed. You understand that you take ownership of your work and love getting on with doing it.

Our staff engage in ongoing professional learning with colleagues that improves their practice across the following five areas of their work.

**Mindwork**
- They are future-focussed, eternally vigilant professionals who are willing to develop exper