Eosd - Deputy Principal Education Officer

**Your Opportunity**:
**As the Deputy Principal Education Officer, you will**:

- Deliver consistent, high quality advice and meet objectives in accordance with departmental policies and procedures and relevant legislation to deliver outcomes.
- Lead strategies that foster high quality collaboration, communication and information sharing to enable an understanding of the complexities and challenges that exist in the targeted area.

**About the Role**:
As the Deputy Principal Education Officer, you duties will include but not be limited to:

- Collect and monitor Year 11 and 12 QCE/ QCIA data and reporting on this to the Regional Director and School and Student Support Division.
- Analyse data to identify where additional support is needed to strengthen pathway planning for students and schools
- Provide context specific strategies to support every student to achieve success in the QCE system
- Link work across regional teams to support a whole of journey approach in supporting every student to attain senior certification and a successful life pathway.
- Deliver consistent, high quality advice and meet objectives in accordance with departmental policies and procedures and relevant legislation to deliver outcomes.
- Lead strategies that foster high quality collaboration, communication and information sharing to enable an understanding of the complexities and challenges that exist in the targeted area.
- Identify, implement and develop strategies for the continual improvement of the targeted area through the analysis of existing work practices, procedures and systems.
- Establish and maintain professional and effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated approach to deliver the department's vision.
- Maintain current knowledge of departmental policies and procedures, legislation and guidelines to enable the design, development and delivery of evidence-based practices.
- Actively contribute to the development and management of a range of integrated initiatives and provide input and solutions from considering many influences, to inform the strategic direction of the targeted area.
- Prepare briefing material, correspondence, reports, communication materials and project plans on implementation strategies, projects and services.

The Deputy Principal Education Officer reports to the nominated Assistant Regional Director.

**Mandatory Requirements**:

- You must be a permanent employee of the department with a substantive teaching or classified officer role employed under Teaching in State Education Award - State 2016, have current full registration as a teacher and should be aware that temporary internal moves for the purposes of the department's payroll processes are referred to as internal secondments.
- Employees' engaged temporarily as Education Officer - Special Duties have a requirement of 36¼ hours per week attendance and arrangements as outlined in clause 7.4 of the Department of Education State School Teachers Certified Agreement 2019.
- When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

**How to Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
- Attach a 2-pg written statement in response to the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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