Job No: TCE5065

Commencement Date: 11 January 2027

Location: St Michael's Catholic School, Palm Island

Salary Range: $149,764 to $157,120 per annum pending experience + Super + Allowances

Incentives: IPRASS and ITAS Allowance

Join the leadership team at St Michael's Catholic School, Palm Island as an Assistant Principal Pedagogy and Learning, where your leadership, faith, vision, and passion for First Nations Education will help shape a vibrant learning community built on care, excellence, and Catholic values.

As the Assistant Principal Pedagogy and Learning, you’ll share in the responsibility for leading teaching and learning across the school. Working closely with the Principal and staff, you’ll drive evidence-based approaches that enhance engagement, improve student outcomes, and build teacher capability.

You’ll model and promote excellence in classroom practice, leading initiatives that embed high-quality pedagogy and consistent, data-informed teaching across year levels. Your leadership will empower teachers to innovate, collaborate and continually refine their craft - creating learning environments where every student can thrive.

Drawing on your deep understanding of curriculum, assessment and contemporary educational practice, you’ll foster a professional learning culture that’s reflective, faith-filled and future-focused. Guided by Catholic values, you’ll nurture both the spiritual and educational development of students and staff alike.

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring extensive experience leading teaching and learning initiatives, with a solid track record in improving student engagement and academic outcomes. You’ll have in-depth knowledge of the Australian Curriculum and expertise in selecting and implementing effective pedagogy across diverse year levels. Confident in using data to drive improvement,



you’ll model and coach high-impact teaching practices, support professional growth, and build collaborative learning cultures that inspire excellence.

You’ll bring authentic faith leadership as an active member of a Catholic Eucharistic community, together with full accreditation to teach Religious Education and registration with the Queensland College of Teachers.

Townsville Catholic Education has standards of conduct for workers to maintain a secure and healthy setting for children. Our commitment to these standards requires that we conduct working with children checks and background referencing for all staff. The organisation is fully committed to child safety and has a zero tolerance to abuse of children or adults-at-risk.

Applicants should note that as part of the hiring process, a criminal history check and a bankruptcy check will be completed.

For more information, please review the full position description.

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Applications close 27 September 2026

About us

Townsville Catholic Education provides a supportive, flexible working environment where care for the individual is an important part of our ethos. We employ motivated people who want to work together to produce excellent outcomes for our students. Our staff are recognised as being central to achieving our mission.

We value your hard work and dedication, and we’re proud to offer a range of benefits designed to support you both professionally and personally:

- Competitive Salary
- Access to remote area benefits
- Annual Leave at 17.5% leave loading
- 12.75% Superannuation employer contribution
- Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service
- Salary packaging options
- Up to 14 Weeks paid parental leave available to the primary carer, regardless of gender
- Deferred Salary Scheme
- …and a range of other great benefits!

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📌 Assistant Principal Pedagogy and Learning (Palm Island)
🏢 Townsville Catholic Education
📍 Palm Island