Assistant Principal-range 2

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 2

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1484303

**Selection Criteria**:
**Selection Criteria**

**SC1 Educational leadership**
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.
- 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 develop and review**
- Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning 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.
- An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.

**SC6 Community Criterion**
- Demonstrated high level commitment to the ongoing development of a school culture that is inclusive; values student voice; promotes the ideal of unconditional positive regard; promotes the use of SWPBS & PCMS and works with staff to always raise the bar on student learning & wellbeing outcomes.

**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**:
**Principal Team**
- The college is led by four Principal Class members, including three Assistant Principals, each with distinct areas of responsibility:

- ** Inclusion**:

- ** Wellbeing and SWPBS**:

- ** Teaching and Learning**

**The Key areas of responsibilities of the Inclusion Assistant Principal include**:

- Developing and overseeing strategies for students in the DIP (Disability Inclusion Profile) and SWAN (Students With Additional Needs) groups
- Oversight of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process
- Overseeing Literacy, Numeracy, and EAL (English as an Additional Language) support Managing Middle School (Years 9/10) enrolments, complex student support plans, and attendance
- Leading major middle school events such as camps
- Implementing OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) guidelines, audits and Emergency Management Plans
- Overseeing digital learning provision, including technical and pedagogical support for technology
- Managing PAT (Progressive Achievement Tests)
- setup and logistics
- Promoting student voice and agency (e.g. ATOSS Data, goal setting, student planners)
- Overseeing student leadership programs, ensuring all student leaders have a staff mentor, and building staff capacity in working with student leaders.
- The DIP team includes a Leading Teacher - Inclusion, a non-teaching DI Teacher (Position of Responsibility), and (ES) Inclusion Coordinator, Learning Support Officers (LSOs).

**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.

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