2026 Learning Specialist

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:1485060

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.

**SC2** Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary ability to model the monitoring and assessment of student learning. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.

**SC6**Demonstrated ability and expertise in creating a highly functioning collaborative curriculum team that strives for continual improvement influenced by data, student agency and teacher feedback.

**Role**:
**Role Description**:

- The position of Learning Specialist - Domain Leader is a key position implementing the College Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan goals in relation to:

- Develop and implement strategies to enhance consistent school wide strategies producing improved student learning outcomes.
- The position is a key one in working to equip teachers with appropriate instructional strategies to enhance student outcomes in response to current data.
- Creating and maintaining an environment in which teachers relate positively to students by providing quality feedback to teachers to assist their teaching of students.
- The active encouragement of professional development and collegial interaction among staff and students
- Delivering management practices which provide clear communication and positive relationships across the college with students, teachers and their parents or guardians
- Each Learning Specialist will be responsible for a negotiated improvement area in line with the School Strategic Plan.
- The Learning Specialist - Domain Leader will play a key role is supporting the implementation of curriculum planning, documentation and delivery across their Learning domain. They will work alongside other domain leaders to ensure consistent expectations across all learning areas.
- As a new and rapidly growing school, the college expects to employee 20-25 new teachers each year for the next 5 to 6 years. The Learning Specialist - Domain Leader will ensure the college supports all new staff as they transition to the college, whether they be a graduate or highly experienced teacher.
- The Learning Specialist reports to the Principal via an Assistant Principal.

**Time Allowance: up to 3 hours per week**

**Essential Requirements of the Role**
- High organisation and time management skills
- High Interpersonal Skills
- Capacity to lead a collaborative team
- Ability to support students from a range of backgrounds

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**
- In recognition of the importance of exemplary practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the Learning Specialists - Domain Leaders may include but are not limited to:

- ** Domain Leadership**:Overseeing the organisation and management of their relevant Learning domain including resource and budget management; incursion, excursions; newsletter & social media articles and wider school community events. Lead a professional culture of learning and school improvement.
- ** Curriculum Planning**:Leading and managing the implementation of curriculum planning, documentation and delivery across their Learning domain which sees students at the centre of highly effective curriculum design, documentation, delivery and assessment
- ** Literacy & Numeracy**:Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school initiatives in literacy and numeracy within their domain.
- ** Curriculum Review**:Reviewing the curriculum offerings including managing updates to Curriculum handbooks and textbook selections to ensure students engage deeply in learning that is interesting, relevant and appropriately challenging
- ** Assessment**:Leading and managing the development of their relevant Learning domains assessment and reporting practices including o