Assistant Principal-range 1

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 1

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs

**Reference**:1486242

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1**

**Educational leadership**
- ** Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.**:

- ** 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.**

**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**
- ** Demonstrated leadership capabilities to support inclusive practices and engagement and build effective relationships with all members of the community.**:

- ** An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.**

**SC6**

**Curriculum Leadership**
- ** Demonstrated expertise and leadership in developing and embedding a whole-school practices in evidence-based practices that support student learning growth.**:

- ** A capacity to demonstrate data literacy through capturing student assessment growth to inform improved teacher practices.**:

- ** An ability to lead others in developing their capacity to provide evidence-based learning opportunities for all students.**

**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.
- Teachers who do not have an approved special education qualification but do have current provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching may apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have an approved special education qualification.
- If an applicant who does not have an approved special education qualification is selected that person can only be offered fixed term employment for a period not exceeding five years.
- To be eligible to be offered ongoing employment in a special setting a fixed term teacher must either:

- hold an approved special education qualification; or
- have completed three or more years of continuous employment as a teacher in the Teaching Service in a special setting and be assessed by the principal as suitable for ongoing employment in a special setting.

**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