Teacher Administration Assistant

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Part time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Ed Support Level 1-Range 2

**Occupation**: Administration/Secretarial

**Location**: Traralgon

**Reference**: 1480652

**Selection Criteria**:

- Demonstrated strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated a level of initiative to complete tasks in a timely manner
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a team and take direction from teachers and school leadership

**Role**:
Victoria has secured funding from the Australian Government¿s Workload Reduction Fund to trial a new type of Education Support role in schools to reduce teacher workload. The Teacher Administration Assistant will play an integral role in supporting a reduction in teacher workload. The role involves performing a variety of tasks typically undertaken by teachers that do not require a teaching qualification, VIT registration, or the specific skills and knowledge of a teacher. The Teaching Administration Assistant will undertake these responsibilities and reduce the workload of teachers.

**Responsibilities**:
An education support class position at this range will perform tasks that are carried out in accordance with guidelines, accepted practice, and school policy under supervision and direction.

An education support class position supports the educational services being provided to students but must not include duties of a teacher as defined in clause 2.6.1 of the _Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic)_ or its successor.

The responsibilities for this role include:

- Coordinating literacy and numeracy resources
- Data entry and uploading literacy, numeracy, and Disability Inclusion data
- Organising classroom storage areas
- Coordinating classroom stationary supplies and ordering
- Sourcing and collating learning materials
- Convert documents from one place to another for teachers, such as upload plans onto the school¿s Student Management System.

This role does not involve working with students; it is supporting the administrative and operational work of teachers.

**Who May Apply**:
A valid Working With Children Check is required for the role.

Prior experience working in administrative roles is desirable.

Prior experience working in a school or educational setting is desirable

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**Location Profile**:
Churchill North PS has a current population of 111; the spread of males and female students is in proportion. The school has a teaching staff of 9
- 6 classroom teachers, 2 specialists
- as well as 13 Education Support staff, 1 Welfare Officer, 1 Assistant Principal/Numeracy Specialist, & Principal.

Churchill North PS enjoys friendly, positive relationships with its families and is highly regarded in the community of Churchill.

Churchill North Primary School is located in the township of Churchill in the Latrobe Valley, 13km south of Morwell, at the base of the Strzelecki Ranges
- a comfortable two-hour drive from Melbourne. Close by is Federation University Gippsland Campus and Kurnai Secondary College incorporating the innovative GEP (Gippsland Education Precinct) Churchill Campus.

Our school was established in 1976 and consists of 5 individual units. Two buildings have recently been redeveloped and now include 4 state of the art classroom spaces in each. All current buildings can be modified for open-plan learning, all have a separate administration core, and a student withdrawal space. Each classroom block has two toilet blocks, two wet areas and two withdrawal rooms.

We also have a community building, which houses our Breakfast Club and two classrooms, and an additional building for our Playgroup, and Before and After School Care programs. Students have the opportunity to start the morning in our community breakfast room, which is a hive of activity and a very relaxed way to commence the s