Intensive School Support Team Leader

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / From 01/01/2025 - 30/06/2027

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Other

Reference: 1447456

**Selection Criteria**:
SC1 **Leadership**
- Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance. Holds a strong understanding of the organisational context and vision and acts accordingly.**SC2** Secondary School **Expertise**:
Demonstrated capacity to effectively manage and lead within a Secondary school setting as well as detailed knowledge of school structures, enablers and barriers associated with the setting.

**SC3 **Teaching,** **Learning** **and** **Wellbeing** Improvement**:
Demonstrated ability to improve the quality of teaching, learning and wellbeing and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration. Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based

improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change.

**SC4 **Coaching and **Mentoring**:
Demonstrated capacity to coach and mentor staff with a focus on continuous improvement. Motivates staff to achieve high standards to support complex school communities and realise the potential of all students.

**SC5 **Stakeholder **Engagement**:
Demonstrated expertise establishing and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders including regions, schools, external suppliers and corporate DE. Ability to resolve stakeholder issues and conduct difficult conversations, as required. Identifies and finds innovative solutions to respond to stakeholder's underlying needs.

**SC6 **Written** **and** **verbal **communication**:
**Role**:
**Role**

The ISS initiative will provide customised and direct intervention to support schools facing complex circumstances or requiring surge capacity due to natural disaster or other crises.

The ISS initiative builds upon and refines the most effective components of the Turnaround Teams (Leadership Partners) initiative, introduced in 2018 as part of the Differentiated Support for School Improvement (DSSI) program.

Two ISS Team Leaders will provide key oversight, quality assurance and monitoring of the ISS initiative by working with a range of stakeholders including regional staff, schools, external suppliers and corporate DE staff.

ISS Team Leaders will be responsible for consistent and effective implementation of the ISS school diagnostic process that will produce Intensive School Diagnostic reports and school improvement plans that mobilise regional ISS staff to deliver interventions. This will involve training of improvement experts, quality assurance and monitoring, and support for ISS regional staff (12 ISS Senior Leaders and 17 ISS Leading Teachers).

ISS Team Leaders are Executive Class roles reporting to the Director, School Performance Branch, School Performance Division, and will be based at 200 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne with the flexibility for hybrid working.

**Responsibilities**:
The ISS Team Leader responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- leading structured twice-termly primary and secondary focused meetings for the ISS regional workforce to promote cross-regional collaboration and sharing of insights from Diagnostic Reports and School Improvement Plans.
- building the capability of the regional ISS workforce through coaching and mentoring.
- oversight of external school improvement experts, including conducting training, appraisal meetings and quality assurance of deliverables (Diagnostic Reports and School Improvement plans).
- attending schools, to conduct or contribute to the Intensive School Diagnostic process and design of the School Improvement Plan.
- monitoring and reporting regularly on ISS implementation progress, including highlighting risks and mitigation strategies.
- collaborating closely with regional colleagues to support cultures of challenge, collaboration and continuous improvement and liaising with the central Secondary School Unit to ensure a partnership approach in delivering the ISS initiative.

**Who May Apply**:
This role is open to all classifications

**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