Assistant Principal

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal-Range 2

**Occupation**: Teacher

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: 1473788

**Location Profile**:
Casey Central Primary School (interim name) will be a newly established primary school located in Cranbourne North with Berwick Springs Wetlands Reserve and Eden Rise Shopping Centre located close by. Opening our doors in 2026, our school is determined to provide a nurturing and stimulating learning environment where every student can flourish academically, socially, and emotionally. The school caters for students from Prep to Year 6 with a built capacity of 525 students.

From day one, we will be striving to develop an inclusive and supportive school culture that welcomes every member of the community into a nurturing space where curiosity will be encouraged, diversity celebrated, and every learner will be valued, celebrated and supported.

Our school will be working to inspire, empower, and prepare students for the future, and we will offer a vibrant learning environment focused on academic excellence, inclusion and a child centred approach. We believe in the importance of forging partnerships between home, school, and the wider community to support student success and well-being.

Our school will feature modern facilities designed to enhance the learning experience. Classroom will be equipped with cutting-edge technology, versatile outdoor spaces, and state-of-the-art amenities create an environment conducive to exploration, creativity, and growth. Our school will be more than buildings it will be a place to grow, thrive, and belong.

Our goal is to create a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where students feel valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.

**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 development 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.

**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