Assistant Principal-range 3

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 3

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:1486791

**Selection Criteria**:

- ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL KEY SELECTION CRITERIA
- ** 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
- ** Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability**

outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills
- ** 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
- ** 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
- ** Interpersonal and Communication Skills**

highly developed interpersonal and communication skills 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**:
**Preamble**
- Assistant Principals are highly skilled classroom practitioners and educational administrators and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of Assistant Principals is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in the school and to improve the curriculum and management of human, physical and cultural resources. Typically, Assistant Principals are responsible for coordinating a large number of staff and educational resources to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others. Assistant Principals are expected to lead and mange significant areas and functions within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school¿s educational program. Assistant Principals will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school.

University High School values its Assistant Principals and sees the work of these teachers as integral to the effective management of the school. Assistant Principals are central to the Administration team and need to maintain a high profile across the college. They should be excellent teachers, and be capable of assessing the teaching of others. Assistant Principals are likely to have career aspirations that may extend to promotion to the role of Principal. As such, they should seek out professional development opportunities that allow them to continuously improve areas of policy knowledge, management capability, and classroom practice. Assistant Principals at University High School must work within a framework of continuous improvement. Staff will be expected to justify annual work programs on this basis. While time allowances are rarely sufficient for staff to complete all the work required in schools, Assistant Principals must acknowledge that the additional pay provided in the Principal class, combined with the potential career advancement inherent in these positions, provides a fundamental rationale for working in Assistant Principal roles at University High.

The successful applicant for this Assistant Principal position will have demonstrated that they are committed to the ethos of the school, as well as the Principal's expectations of workload and agency. A prominent profile within staff and students is essential. The Assistant Principal will teach one timetabled class.

**Responsibilities**:
**General Duties and Responsibilities**
- The Assistant Principal team portfolios for 2026 will be allocated according to the strengths, skills and knowledge of the entire team of five Principal-class officers and will be negotiated with the successful applicant. Apart from their specific roles, Assistant Principals must have a significant presence as members of the overall leadership of the college. Hence, they are central to ensuring all school policies are implemented. Expectations include:

- Contribute to the overall leadership and management of the school including representi