Assistant Principal Range 1

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 1

**Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal

**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1488265

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC 1**:**Educational Leadership**
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

**SC**2: Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability**
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

**SC 3: Planning, Policy and Program Development and Review**
- Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.
- An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.
- Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.

**SC 4**:Leadership of Staff and Students**
- A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
- A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

**SC 5: Interpersonal and Communication Skills**
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.
- Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.
- An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.

**SC 6: Teaching and Learning**
- Outstanding knowledge of exemplary pedagogical practices that foster high-level student learning, attitudes and attributes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams to implement high quality professional learning.

**Role**:

- 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.
- Included in this role is the development and ongoing refinement of policies, processes and practices related to attendance across the college. Leading the regular review of attendance data, and implementing responsive plans focused on following up and explaining absences, as well as improving student attendance at an individual, cohort and whole school level.
- Also leading a holistic process for the transition of students, with a particular focus on Grade 6 to 7 transition. To plan and implement high-quality processes and practices to support Preparation, Transfer, Induction, and Consolidation phases of transition as per DE guidelines.

**Responsibilities**:
**Junior Sub School Leader**:

- Undertake the role of Junior Sub School Leader as per role description
- Act as case lead for allocated students with escalating Tier II, or established Tier III needs

**Whole School Transitions**:

- Lead and regularly review the whole school enrolment process for new students, including effective transition when commencing as a new student throughout the year
- Lead and oversee enrolment and transition processes for students from language school
- Lead the annual Grade 6 to 7 transition process, including oversight of the DE Placement Policy
- Lead the LSC Transition Team
- Lead the organisation and implementation of Year 7 Student-Led Conferences for Term 1 and 4
- Lead the implementation of Grade 4/5 experiences, and Year 7 return visits to primary schools
- Lead/oversee the parent/carer learning program e.g. Compass training sessions
- Lead and co-ordinate parent/carer information evening related to transition e.g. Showcase Evening, Year 7 Information Welcome BBQ, Year 7 Parent/Carer Information Evening
- Act as school representative in feeder school cluster meetings

**Attendance Improvement**:

- Lead attendance monitoring practices and processes for the college
- Lead attendance improvement practices and processes for the college
- Collaborate with Assistant Principals and Leading Teachers to implement processes related t