Leading Teacher

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher Range 3

**Occupation**: Education and Training

**Location**: Moe

**Reference**: 1473422

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC 1** Demonstrated high level understanding of Lowanna Sports Academy initiatives and program promotion to create a dynamic and challenging curriculum tailored to student¿s athletic growth and educational development.

**SC 2** Developed consistent and strong connections with external organisations and community groups to enhance the Lowanna Sports Academy Program¿s reach, Impact and Wellness element.

**SC 3** Demonstrated outstanding ability to promote the Lowanna Sports Academy Program and student achievements at a whole school level and to use attendance and behavioural data to monitor student engagement and learning.

**SC 4** Demonstrated outstanding written and verbal communication skills and high-level interpersonal skills including the ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with parents, other employees, Lowanna Sports Academy Partnerships and the broader community, focused on student/athlete learning, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC 5** Demonstrated a high level of leadership in the overall technical and promotional components of Lowanna Sports Academy. This includes all areas of coaching, strength and conditioning, nutrition, rehabilitation, marketing, behaviour management and monitoring of staff to produce a high-performance environment for continuous improvement.

**Role**:
Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.

Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.

Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:
**Executive Director Sports Academy
- High Performance/Wellness**

**The Executive Director is responsible for leading the development, innovation, and integration of the Sports Academy program with the College curriculum and external partners. This includes areas of high-performance processes, injury minimization, brand promotion monitoring student/athlete progress and behavioural compliance. In addition, this role is responsible for creating new ideas to promote, encourage and enhance the programs reach and impact. The role also fosters strong community links, connecting organisations and groups that support and enhance the wellness element and overall student/athlete growth and future pathways.

**Specific Duties/Responsibilities**

- Manage the promotion of LSA to families or perspective student athletes, including liaising with technical coaches and other staff.
- Leading and managing the implementation of LSA improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery tailored to students¿ athletic growth and educational development.
- Act as Executive Director, creating, managing, assessing initiatives, processes, and ideas to grow the LSA program.
- Initiate and grow community links through the development of a Wellness centre, consultancy rooms for external practitioners.
- Create links with external partners current and prospective.
- Leading and managing the implementation of LSA operations and policies relating to student welfare and discipline.
- Maintain regular parental contact.
- Monitor student wellness through feedback from sub schools, nutritional consults, medical and rehabilitation reports.
- Continually react to LSA student feedback regarding program initiatives and changes.
- Create gender positive strategies to maintain and encourage a balanced program.
- Create, develop, modify the LSA brand to maintain a contemporary profile.
- In conjunction with LSA staff and Director, implement a structured systematic process for consideration perspective students-athletes which includes sporting talent, game sense, physical abilities, academic aptitude, and character.
- Promote and manage LSA partne