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Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028 Organisation: Schools (Government) **Salary**: Salary not specified Occupation: Education and Training Reference: 1452327 **Location Profile**: Elwood College is seeking dedicated, strategic, and experienced leaders to join our College Leadership Team as Sub-school Directors. This pivotal role will drive curriculum excellence, foster student wellbeing, and support the achievement of our Strategic and Annual Implementation Plans. As a leader of both teachers and students, you¿ll be instrumental in elevating teaching quality, guiding professional development, and enhancing student outcomes across your cohort. **Key Responsibilities**: - ** Curriculum & Teaching Leadership**: Lead the development and delivery of engaging, high-quality teaching programs tailored to student needs and manage effective teaching teams. - ** Student Wellbeing**: Ensure a child-safe environment and promote student wellbeing, positive behaviours, and engagement in alignment with college values and policies. - ** Strategic Implementation**: Work with the College Leadership Team to achieve Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan goals focused on continuous improvement in teaching and learning. - ** Professional Development**: Coach, mentor, and provide constructive feedback to teachers, promote effective use of data to enhance teaching practices, and drive professional growth within the staff. - ** Data-Driven Practice**: Lead the planning and oversight of standardised assessments (including NAPLAN) and guide effective use of data for curriculum refinement and student learning plans. - ** Community Engagement**: Coordinate whole school events, camps, and year-level activities that enrich student learning and school culture. - ** Individual Learning Plans (ILPs)**: Manage the development and implementation of ILPs for students, ensuring alignment with Department of Education (DE) policies. - ** Staff & Student Transitions**: Support new staff induction and oversee student induction and transitions, including planning and implementing the Year 6 into Year 7 transition program. - ** Budget Management**: Oversee relevant program budgets as allocated. Our maxim "Together We Grow" reflects the collaborative approach to learning that is central to Elwood College. A co-educational secondary college situated in the heart of the leafy, seaside suburb of Elwood, Elwood College strives for academic excellence, to be a place where all students are empowered to learn and achieve. The student enrolment is currently 803 but can increase to 900 depending on international student enrolments. We focus on high quality teaching practice and the best conditions for learning to equip students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and shaping the world around them. We are passionately a government school and are proud to be the school of choice in the local area. Our values are Respect, Integrity, Care and Compassion. Our mission is to foster in students a love of learning; to build their resilience; to enable them to approach the future with optimism; and to provide students with the skills and attitudes that will enable them to be productive and responsible global citizens. Elwood College encourages students to pursue excellence in a culturally diverse learning environment through the development of positive, respectful and cooperative relationships. We have a high expectation that students will continue onto tertiary studies with enthusiasm and confidence. We focus on developing 'future-ready' students, equipped for life beyond school in a challenging local and global environment. Independent, inquisitive learning, and global perspectives are incorporated throughout the curriculum. A strong and motivated Student Representative Council ensures that student voice is heard. In addition to being an active subcommittee of school council the SRC hosts a number of events each year, including a wonderful Student Talent Show. Curriculum is designed to allow all students to participate in a wide range of purposeful learning experiences. Its structure ensures that students can build on their achievements and plan for the development of specialised skills in later years. With the recent completion of much of our ongoing building and grounds redevelopment program, students and staff learn and teach in a sophisticated, technologically well-equipped environment to meet the 21st century educational needs of teachers and students. We value collaboration and partnership with our families as well as with a range of community, educational, industry and government organisations both in Victoria and overseas. We encourage and support parents and families to be engaged in student curriculum activities, our school culture and environment. Elwood College has developed a sophisticated transition process, Second Storey, with our feeder prim