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: 1542465

Selection Criteria

1. Vision and Values Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of school goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance.

- Teaching and Learning Demonstrated ability to manage the quality of teaching and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration.
- Improvement, Innovation and Change Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change.
- Management Demonstrated capacity to ensure that the school's human, physical and financial resources are efficiently allocated and managed.
- Development Demonstrated capacity to create a professional learning community that is focused on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, supporting all staff to achieve high standards and commitment to their own learning and wellbeing.
- Engagement Demonstrated capacity to develop positive relationships with students, parents/families and the local community and participate in and contribute to system-level activities.

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:

- 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;
- Please note that Cranbourne Primary School prides itself on a flat leadership model, where all voices are equal;

Who May Apply

Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe,



respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]

Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy

DE Values

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview

Qualification Requirements

To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:

- The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
- if the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 'Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; and
- a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements (this condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian ITE program completed by the person).

Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.

Location Profile

At Cranbourne Primary School staff are positive, committed and work as a team to support students and each other. We work together to give new approaches a try and have fun while doing it. We encourage you to contact the principal ([email protected]) to organise a tour of the school. More information about our programs and reasons why you should work at Cranbourne can be found here:



https://www.cranbourne-ps.vic.edu.au/page/318

Cranbourne Primary School is located in the Casey South Network and the municipality of the City of Casey. The City of Casey is the third fastest growing municipality in Victoria.

Cranbourne Primary

School is located geographically in the original section of Cranbourne within walking distance to the Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre, Casey RACE ¿ swimming centre, Cranbourne Secondary College, Cranbourne library, and the Cranbourne sporting complex. The school has a designated geographical zone with some enrolled students travelling to the school from outside the dedicated zone. The SFO is currently 0.58, and the SFOE index is 0.50.

The student enrolment is currently 247. The school is structured into four Learning Communities - Foundation, Junior, Middle and Senior.The student population is culturally diverse with families who have backgrounds which include over 28 languages, including English and 64% of students with Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE). Our students with limited English are supported by a EAL intervention teacher, who provides students the prospect to develop their oral and literacy skills in small groups.

The school has increased practices of inclusion for students and families who are refugees and/or who have experienced trauma. This work was undertaken in partnership with Foundation House. We operate a Community Hub to promote and develop community connections which operates Tuesday to Thursday.

We also operate an OSHC facility at our school providing much needed support to our families requiring Before and After School care and Vacation Care.

Cranbourne Primary School staff plan, teach and assess student outcomes collaboratively in Professional Learning Teams. The teaching and learning is planned and delivered using our Instructional Model that is based on E5. Students participate in specialist classes that include PE, Health, ICT and Visual & Performing Arts.

Students have access to iRock, which is an external instrumental music program delivered during and after school hours to students. Specialist sessions are conducted concurrently to provide teachers from the same Learning Community with shared planning time.

In 2026 the staffing profile of the school includes 1 Principal, 1 Assistant Principal, 2 Learning Specialists, 12 home group teachers, EAL intervention teacher, 2.6 specialist teachers offering PE, ICT, Visual & Performing Arts, 2 Administrative staff, 1 Wellbeing support staff along with a Wellbeing dog, 1 Youth Worker, 2 social workers and 11 Integration Aides. Total FTE 31.19

The school is supported strongly by parents who contribute to School Council.

Students transition into the school from feeder Pre Schools and Kindergartens which are mainly local in Cranbourne. The majority of Year 6 students go on to local schools, including Cranbourne Secondary College, however, some students do transition beyond the Cranbourne area.

The school supports students on the Disability Inclusion program and all student wellbeing across the school by working closely with families and coordinating support from external service providers including: VACCA, Kids Hope mentor program, Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Paediatricians, Monash Children¿s Hospital, Psychologists and the Casey South network SSSO team.

The school has established strong partnerships with DFFH, Lookout, Berry St to support students in OOHC and the regional KESO supporting our students who identify as Indigenous.

Our CPS gymnasium, after being upgraded, has improved the connections to local sporting groups and re-established partnerships through the hiring of our facilities.

Applications close Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 11.59pm Posted 17 September 2026

📌 Assistant Principal-Range 1 (East Melbourne)
🏢 Victorian Government
📍 East Melbourne