Assistant Principal-range 2

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 2

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Hume - Greater Shepparton

**Reference**:1485364

**Selection Criteria**:

- SC1: Educational Leadership
- Demonstrated capacity for visionary and inclusive leadership that builds a culture of high expectations, support and continual improvement for both staff and students.

SC2: Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability
- Proven ability to effectively lead teams, manage resources and deliver strategic outcomes aligned with school goals.

SC3: Policy and Program Development
- Capacity to lead the implementation of policies, programs and practices that improve student engagement, wellbeing and learning outcomes.

SC4: Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Exceptional communication, conflict resolution and coaching skills in working with a range of stakeholders including staff, students, families and community services.

SC5: Commitment to Student Development
- Demonstrated commitment to equity, wellbeing, engagement and achievement for all students, with a focus on early and middle years leadership.

**Role**:

- The Assistant Principal reports directly to the Principal. This role has strategic leadership over the Years 7¿10 sub-school team, comprising the Team Leaders, Year Level Leaders and Wellbeing & Programs Leaders for Years 7¿8 and 9¿10.

The Assistant Principal leads and supports these teams in implementing consistent and effective systems of student management, attendance improvement, positive behaviour strategies, wellbeing interventions, academic supports, and the implementation of whole-school policies at a sub-school level.

This Assistant Principal plays a key role in ensuring consistency of expectations and responses across the sub-schools, building staff capability in managing complex behaviours and supporting student re-engagement, and in the development of data-informed improvement cycles.

As a member of the Principal Class Team, the AP contributes to whole-school decision-making and strategic planning aligned with the School Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- Line management of the 7¿8 and 9¿10 Team Leaders, Year Level Leaders, and Wellbeing & Programs Leaders and Disability Inclusion Leader
- Leading and coaching sub-school leaders to implement positive and proactive behaviour support strategies.
- Overseeing student engagement, attendance and behaviour systems for Years 7¿10, ensuring interventions are data-informed and consistently applied.
- Chairing complex case management and re-engagement meetings across the sub-schools.
- Working closely with the Director of Wellbeing and Disability Inclusion Leader to ensure seamless support for students with complex or additional needs.
- Coordinating return-to-school processes and re-engagement plans for suspended or disengaged students.
- Monitoring attendance and welfare data trends (e.g. Compass Pulse) and leading responsive strategic planning.
- Leading sub-school High Performance Teams, supporting staff in identifying barriers to student success and problem-solving collaboratively.
- Overseeing the implementation of IEPs, Behaviour Support Plans, and Modified Learning Plans across the sub-schools.
- Supporting new and early career teachers to manage classroom behaviour and support inclusion of students with diverse needs.
- Ensuring alignment between sub-school processes and whole-school policies, including Child Safe Standards and the School-Wide Positive Behaviour Framework.
- Representing the sub-school in leadership meetings, consultative committees and whole-school planning forums.
- Assisting with student placements, enrolments, and transitions across year levels.

**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:
**Other Information**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a bro