Assistant Principal-range 2

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 2

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1491774

**Location Profile**:

- Blackburn English Language School (ELS) has been operating for over 30 years and provides full time, intensive English courses for both primary and secondary newly-arrived migrants, refugees and International students.
- The students usually enrol in our program prior to their enrolment in a mainstream school or further education. The school has three campuses: one in Burwood East (Whitehorse Campus), a second campus in Croydon North (Maroondah Campus) and a third in Wodonga (Wodonga Campus).
- The school’s beliefs and operations are based on a number of core values. These are:

- Future Making
- Embracing Diversity
- Building Communities
- Within the context of these values the school has a number of purposes. These are to provide:

- a focused learning environment that supports all students to reach their potential in English language development and aims to prepare them for the academic, behavioural and social challenges of mainstream schools or alternative learning pathways.
- a school environment that encourages students from a range of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to become confident and active participants in the wider Australian community.
- a supportive and stimulating work environment for all staff that encourages commitment, innovation and excellence.
- learning opportunities for newly arrived families that broaden their knowledge of the Victorian schooling system and prepare them for involvement in the school community.
- professional learning opportunities for mainstream school staff to support newly arrived and EAL students in mainstream schools across the NEVR.

**Selection Criteria**:
**Criteria 1 - Educational leadership**
- Approved teaching qualifications including a TESOL qualification recognised by the Department of Education and Training
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**Criteria 2 - Financial, managerial and administrative ability**
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

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

**Criteria 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 'New Arrivals¿ learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

**Criteria 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 newly arrived families and the community to develop a strong learning environment.

**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