Principal (Level 9) - Mountain Creek State High

3 days ago


Sunshine Coast, Australia Education Full time

About the School
Mountain Creek State High School has an excellent reputation for outstanding achievements in academic, cultural, leadership, community and sporting programs. The school recognises that students require a meaningful and relevant curriculum as well as a cleverly designed school structure to better integrate the key elements of good pedagogical practice with a pastoral care framework that best supports young people in a rapidly changing world.
Mountain Creek State High School's vision is to ensure that students have the skills to be lifelong learners. They need to be capable of higher order thinking and critical analysis, be self-directed learners, complex thinkers, quality producers, community contributors, team players and skilful users of information and communication technology. Enrolment at Mountain Creek State High School will ensure that students are challenged at all levels, supported in setting and attaining realistic personal academic goals.Pastoral care and parent engagement are fostered through a sub-school system that provides close monitoring of students in both academic achievement and behaviour management along with a safe, secure and supportive environment.
Mountain Creek State High School caters for approximately 2,200 students and operates a 'split shift' timetable. Senior school students (years 10, 11 and 12) attend school from 7.30am-12.55pm. Junior secondary students (years 7, 8 and 9) attend school from 10.25am-4.05pm.About the Role
As the Principal you will have responsibility for the following:

- Lead the school community to develop, articulate and commit to a shared educational vision focussed on providing quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Uphold the principalship as a values based, ethical and moral activity.
- Embed socially just practices in daily school life.
- Set high standards for student and staff performance.
- Actively participate in life long learning and ongoing professional development.
- Form partnerships with parents, other government agencies, community groups, industry and business.
- Futures oriented and strategic.
- Understand the legislation and policies that impact on schooling.
- Manage resources to achieve goals.

For a full list of mandatory requirements please see the attached role description.

**Interested? To apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor)
- Attach a maximum 2 page written response outlining your suitability for the role referring to the key capabilities identified in the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.


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