Educational Support Instrumental Music Lower

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time / From 28/01/2025 - 31/12/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1455546

**Location Profile**:
Nossal High School is committed to being an innovative, inclusive, and dynamic educational environment. We challenge ourselves to be creative and critical thinkers with good communication skills and the resilience necessary to succeed in an ever-changing world. We build skills, self-confidence, leadership abilities and community spirit through a rigorous, rich, and varied curricular and co-curricular program. We want our graduates to be ambitious, ethical, and responsible citizens who conduct themselves with humility and compassion.

Nossal High School Values
Nossal is a school that:

- Leads and develops leadership
- Creates and cultivates creativity
- Is respectful and fosters respectful citizenship
- Inspires and seeks inspiration
- Is ethical and develops ethical behaviours
- Pursues excellence and celebrates individual progress
- Develops resilience and independence and nurtures wellbeing
- Encourages a strong work ethic with an emphasis on personal growth

The Nossal High School logo consists of two books (representing academic study), forming a butterfly (emerging from a chrysalis), taking flight (signifying the future), and showing a link to the past (the school is built on the old Casey Airfield).

The Nossal High School Motto - ¿Embrace the Challenge¿

This was the original statement presented to the foundation cohort on their introduction to their new school. It is a phrase that instils the hope and high expectations we have for Nossal students to grow in intellectual, social, physical and leadership pursuits. They have been thrown the challenge to succeed in a global world and we want them to embrace it.
- To embrace: to hold closely, to accept with eagerness.
- To challenge: a call to demonstrate one¿s strength or ability. (Oxford, 2010)

On most comparative performance measures Nossal achieves very good results, and "traditional" improvement measures are more nuanced and incremental, requiring contextual understanding. Challenging and longer-term approaches to achieve cultural rather than transformative change is often required to enable such improvement.
The school leadership team has always sought to challenge the school community and has set broad, big picture goals relating to curriculum and pedagogy; assessment; student voice; ICT; school culture and ethos. The school undertook a self-Evaluation in late 2022 and developed a new Strategic Plan early in 2023 following an "Influencing" review process.
Nossal students (and their parents) are highly motivated, highly aspirational, and very committed to their academic education and VCE results and nearly all aspire to university entry.

**Selection Criteria**:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the teaching of instrumental music, particularly Lower strings (cello and double bass), to students ranging from beginner to advanced levels, and the ability to improve learning outcomes across various music styles.

2. Possess the technical expertise relevant to the position and demonstrate an ability to direct ensembles, choose appropriate repertoire, and engage with student interests to foster musical development.

3. Demonstrate high-level communication and interpersonal skills when relating to students, parents, teachers, and the broader school community, ensuring effective collaboration and positive relationships.

4. Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively as part of a committed team of educators and contribute to the development of the music program.

5. Proactively contribute to building and retaining instrumental music student enrolments and encourage student participation in ensemble programs.

**Role**:
The Instrumental Music Instructor in this role will be responsible for providing individual Lower string (cello and double bass), instruction to high-achieving Year 9 to VCE Music Performance students. This includes preparing students for performances and exams, as well as writing end-of-term reports for parents.

The position may also involve managing and rehearsing the Nossal High School Ensembles.

Instrumental Music Instructors are expected to attend faculty meetings, assist with event preparation, and participate in events such as VCE Soirees, House Music Night, Speech Night, and other performances as needed.

Other duties may be assigned by the Principal, Business Manager and/or Director of Music.
- No yard duty will be assigned to this position.
- Attendance at morning briefings, staff meetings, professional development sessions, and parent-teacher interviews will be negotiated.

**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver high-quality individual and group music instruction.
- Manage the Nossal School Ensembles, including repertoire development, rehearsals, performance preparation, and