Instructional Leader: Numeracy K-4

St Mary's Cathedral College Sydney

Commencement Date: Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Closing Date: Friday, 10 October 2025

Capacity: Full-Time, Permanent

Join us in shaping the future of our students

Be part of St Mary's Cathedral College Sydney's dedicated team, shaping the next generation with quality education and unwavering values. Apply now and embrace an exciting journey of teaching and professional growth.

About Our School

St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney is a K-12 co-educational, dual campus College. As we grow, we invite passionate and innovative educators to join our team and contribute to shaping the future of our College and its students. If you are an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher who is excited by the prospect of working in a dynamic, faith-filled environment, we invite you to apply for the role of Instructional Leader: Numeracy K-4.

Our school is dedicated to fostering the foundational development of each student, providing an enriching curriculum that blends academic achievement with spiritual growth, creativity, and a strong sense of community.

Position Highlights

St Mary's Cathedral College Sydney is seeking to appoint an experienced and passionate Instructional Leader: Numeracy K-4. This is a full-time, ongoing position, commencing Term 1,

Major Accountabilities:

The Instructional Leader is required to perform tasks that include but are not limited to:

• supporting the leadership of a school-wide culture of excellence, informed decision-making, and collaborative practice
• working with the leadership team and other stakeholders in implementing a range of improvement strategies to ensure effective strategic change
• actively promoting the integration of Catholic values and Catholic Social Teaching across the curriculum
• ensuring consistency of teaching practice and shared teacher judgement drives assessment
• demonstrating exemplary classroom teaching practice in their curriculum speciality
• cultivating a contemporary and effective learning culture
• developing and implementing effective and evidence-based professional learning to build the capacity of teachers
• ensuring evaluation of teaching and teachers' goal setting related to performance and monitoring performance goal achievement
• leading and collaborating within a culture of ongoing growth and improvement
• demonstrating organisational, management and leadership skills
• analysing data and trends within the school to identify areas for growth
• actively promoting the relationship between student wellbeing and learning growth
• contributing to a 'network approach' that promotes the reciprocal benefits of school system
• ensuring all work activities align with SCS' vision, mission, values and Capability Framework
• reporting all concerns regarding child safety and allegations of inappropriate conduct to the line manager and the SCS Child Safety team. SCS is a child-safe environment and all concerns regarding child safety and allegations of inappropriate conduct will be treated seriously
• promoting and implementing Sydney Catholic Schools' mission and vision To know and love Christ through learning and Thriving Catholic communities through excellent teaching and learning
• promoting and abiding by Sydney Catholic Schools' values of empathy, curiosity, excellence, collaboration and truth
• any other duties as directed from time to time.

Key Duties:

In this position, your primary duties will include:

• demonstrating and leading exemplary, innovative and evidence-based real-world learning practice in selecting, organising and evaluating the content, and delivering learning and teaching programs in the curriculum specialty
• tracking student performance within the faculty and ensuring that effective assessment, responsiveness to data, timely feedback and differentiation are embedded within teaching programs and practices
• coordinating administrative and governance processes related to curriculum and assessment
• developing and facilitating effective and evidence-based professional learning and dialogue to build the capacity of teachers
• monitoring teachers' goal setting related to performance and evaluating the achievement of set goals
• collaborating with and contributing to the Gifted Education Team.

Why Work for Sydney Catholic Schools

In joining Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS), you will be part of the largest Catholic education community in NSW, with a unified vision and shared resources, encompassing over 145 schools and over 74,000 students. We enable job mobility across the system, diverse career opportunities and an extensive suite of professional development programs.

SCS is renowned for excellence, with six schools in the top 100 and 13 in the top 150 of the 2024 HSC rankings. Over 51% of results were Band 5 or 6, and our students achieved 2,819 Distinguished Achiever mentions.

Be part of a system that fosters academic, creative and vocational success, shaping future leaders every step of the way.

You will have attained:

• a tertiary qualification in Education
• eligibility according to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).

Application Process

Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the steps to submit your application. To complete the application process, please ensure you attach the following;

• current CV
• cover letter
• three referees, including your current employer/principal (where applicable) your last principal.

Interviews may commence prior to the closing date for suitable candidates.

Any offer of employment with Sydney Catholic Schools is subject to screening completed by the Central Office People & Culture Services team.

If you encounter technical issues or for any general enquiries please contact the People & Culture Services team on am-5pm, Mon-Fri).

Statement of Commitment to Child Safety

Click here to access SCS' Statement of Commitment to Child Safety and join us in creating a culture of child safety and wellbeing.

Working With Children Check (WWCC)

This role is classified as child-related work and therefore requires a WWCC clearance prior to commencement of employment.

SCS welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and candidates with diverse backgrounds.