Assistant Principal

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 31/12/2027

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1452807

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1**: Educational Leadership

Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.

Highly developed skills in the leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**SC2**: Financial, managerial and administrative ability

Outstanding financial, organizational 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.

**SC4**: Leadership of staff and students

A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective wellbeing team.

A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their emotional, social and academic capabilities and talents.

**SC 5**: Interpersonal and communication skills

Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.

An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong, inclusive and high performing school community.

**SC6**: Whole School Culture and Student Agency

Outstanding capacity to develop a positive whole school culture of inclusion and wellbeing, utilizing multi-tiered systems of support and evidence-based teaching to meet diverse student needs.

Proven ability to lead, monitor, and evaluate the implementation of practices that enhance student voice and agency across the school.

Commitment to fostering an environment where all students are empowered to actively participate in their learning journey.

**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**:
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

**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:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**VIT LANTITE**:
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

**Location Profile**:
CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL PROFILE

Located in Hoppers Crossing and positioned directly within the Wyndham City growth corridor, Cambridge Primary School opened in 1992 with an enrolment of 243 children and currently has a population of approximately 710.

The learning spaces offer outstanding school facilities for our children. Our facilities also cater for the needs of our wider community. With over 46 nationalities represented in our total school population, we proudly promote and celebrate our cultural diversity, while working together as a h