Assistant Principal

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 1

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs

**Reference**:1492222

**Location Profile**:
**We are looking for an inspiring, enthusiastic and dedicated Assistant Principal to join our team at Gamadji Primary School.**
- This role will commence term 1, 2026.

Gamadji Primary School is a new government primary school located in Craigieburn within the City of Hume. It will open on day 1 of Term 1, 2026 and help the growing local population get a great education close to home. The school will open for enrolments from Foundation to Year 6, with capacity for up to 650 enrolments.

Facilities available for Term 1, 2026 will include:

- 3 learning neighbourhoods
- Administration building and library building
- Outdoor play areas
- A community hub with indoor multi-use court, canteen and music spaces
- Sports field
- Early Learning Centre.

**Vision**
Gamadji Primary School's vision is to create a school community where students collaborate with respect, explore with curiosity, and contribute to a supportive and inclusive environment that fosters growth and lifelong learning.

**Mission**
Gamadji Primary School's mission is to provide a safe, collaborative, and inclusive environment where students engage in learning, ask questions, build relationships, and solve problems, developing curiosity, kindness, responsibility, and the skills needed for success and lifelong learning.

**Values**
Gamadji Primary School's values are Character, Curiosity, Collaboration and Community

**Our school motto is**:
Together we learn
Together we grow
Together we achieve

Gamadji Primary School's curriculum presents students with the opportunity to develop deep understandings on a range of concepts throughout their school lives. Our curriculum is planned collaboratively, taught sequentially and allows students to have some ownership in all aspects of their learning. It is designed to develop thinking and social skills, foster engagement with the broader community and includes a variety of technologies to assist in student learning.

**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 of budgets, positions of responsibility and other resources within the area of responsibility;
- supervision of the delivery of teaching programs;
- management of programs to improve the knowledge and experience of staff;
- responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers and year level coordinators;
- contribute to the overall management of the school;
**Who May Apply**:

- Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

**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