Assistant Principal-range 4

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 4

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1476162

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1 Educational leadership**
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**SC2 Financial, managerial and administrative ability**
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

**SC3 Planning, policy and program development and review**
- Exemplary values appropriate to maximising student learning growth 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.

**SC4 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 learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

**SC5 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.

**SC6 Local Criterion**
- Keysborough College has a unique structure and a complex and changing demographic. These factors provide many opportunities for our students while also presenting some challenges to the leadership. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate the ability to:

- Both lead and manage a Year 7 - 12 campus
- Drive school improvement in a selected area of the School Strategic Plan
- Maintain a College wide perspective when implementing process and practice.

**Role**:

- The Assistant Principal: Campus Principal reports directly to the College Principal.
- The Principal Class Team consists of a College Principal and a Campus Principal at each campus. There is an Engagement Assistant Principal at each campus, and the College has a Teaching and Learning Assistant Principal, an Inclusion Assistant Principal, and an Accountabilities and Community Assistant Principal.
- Campus Principals are responsible for the leadership and management of their campus and play an essential role in developing the culture of the College overall. They oversee the actions of the Engagement Assistant Principals and their Campus Management Team.
- In addition to this each Campus Principal will be responsible for guiding and supporting the actions of College Improvement Teams whose role is to implement Key Improvement Strategies of the Strategic Plan/AIP associated with a particular FISO 2.0 Priority.

**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**:

- Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.

**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:
**Other Information**:

- All staff employed by the department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- A resume including relevant experience as well as personal details (name, address and contact number