Assistant Principal

Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time

Salary: Salary not specified

Grade: Assistant Principal - Range 2

Occupation: Principal and assistant principal

Location: Grampians - Ballarat

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Yuille Park Community College is a multi-campus college providing an innovative curriculum based around an inquiry approach to learning. Our school values are: Belonging, Effort, Empathy and Respect.

Students work in learning communities in multi-age groups, building relationships and participating in a range of programs designed to provide collaborative learning opportunities. Yuille Park Community College provides a rich and nurturing learning environment that engages students to develop Lifelong Learning skills in an atmosphere of cooperation, challenge and respect.

Our college reflects and enhances our community's commitment to the development of lifelong learning skills for young people in the community.

Grevillea campus offers learning for years Foundation to Yr 8. The college provides learning experiences that connect to a modern world. Learning occurs in open space facilities in learning communities and provides various specialists programs including, STEM, Kitchen/garden program and the Arts to name a few. The Early Learning Centre (ELC) is also located on the Grevillea campus grounds and is managed by the college. The ELC offers occasional care for children of parents enrolled in our Young Parents program. Also offered is 3 and 4 year old Kinder where the learning environment is centred on children, families and a positive start to a child's educational journey.

The Yuille campus is a Flexible Learning Option (FLO) campus. This campus offers education for years 7 to 12. The Young Parents program operates on this site. The Victorian Pathways Certificate and Vocational Major are offered in the senior years of education at the Yuille Campus. This campus focuses on re-engagement and pathways to work or further education. Students are active participants in their learning journey to help reach their potential.

Vision and Values:

Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of school goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance.

Teaching and Learning:

Demonstrated ability to manage the quality of teaching and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration.

Improvement, Innovation and Change:

Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change.

Management:

Demonstrated capacity to ensure that the school's human, physical and financial resources are efficiently allocated and managed.

Development:

Demonstrated capacity to create a professional learning community that is focussed on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, supporting all staff to achieve high standards and commitment to their own learning and wellbeing.

Engagement:

Demonstrated capacity to develop positive relationships with students, parents, families and the local community and participate in and contribute to system-level activities.

Community:

Demonstrated capacity to meet the wellbeing and engagement needs of the school community from the Early Years of education through to senior secondary aged students (K-12) and foster partnerships with families to improve wellbeing and educational outcomes.

The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.

Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget. Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.

The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.

Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.

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;

Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via

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:

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:

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 or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

Applications close Monday 25 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted

12 August 2025