Description:
Selection Criteria
- Educational leadership
- Outstanding capacity for exemplary educational leadership of the Don Valley Campus of the School for Student Leadership.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing the organisational alignment of the campus including embedding a shared school educational vision and culture.
- Financial, managerial and administrative ability
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.
- Excellent ability to lead the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.
- Leadership of staff and students
- A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team in a multi-campus setting.
- A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to maximise their special abilities and talents.
- 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, child-safe and inclusive learning environment.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
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;