Occupation: Principal and assistant principal

Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs

Reference: 1551856

Location Profile

Gleneagles Secondary College employs in excess of 150 personnel and we are committed to supporting staff to focus on the work that we are all most passionate about - supporting our students to achieve their very best. We are focussed on removing administrative burden from our teaching staff and our structures and approach to student engagement supports a collective focus on student learning and engagement.

The College has an enrolment of over 1300 students from Year 7 to Year 12 and a staff of 150+. Ours is a culturally and ethnically diverse community with 50% of our students coming from a language background other than English and 5% have refugee status. Approximately 1% of our students identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Our curriculum programs place Literacy and Numeracy at the core of our practice, providing students with broad access to the pathways they wish to explore and pursue. The design of curriculum is further underpinned by student voice and choice, VCE pathways and our collective knowledge of the educational demands of our student community. Our Senior students pathway into a diverse range of vocations and university courses and we are proud of our strong track record of academic performance.

Student leadership, voice and agency is central to our work. Students have multiple opportunities to make decisions about their own learning and the direction of the College more generally, providing input into how we engage with the Community, Teaching and Learning, Workplace and Student Engagement and Wellbeing. Students drive our RISE Model which stems from our school values of: Respect, Inclusion,



Stamina and Excellence.

Where students require support in the classroom we offer additional staffing within the class, who work to extend and support small groups of students. We are committed to developing happy, healthy and resilient children and we have invested significantly in student wellbeing expertise including: a large Student Wellbeing Team, Mental Health Practitioner, Doctors In Schools Program, Youth and Social Workers, School Nurse and a dedicated Inclusion Program.

Gleneagles Secondary College has an established record of academic excellence and our success is attributed to a number of factors: dedicated staff, transparent and consultative leadership, and above all, strong relationships between all sectors of the school, especially between staff, students, our families and the wider community.

Selection Criteria

SC1: Educational Leadership

Outstanding capacity to provide educational leadership that places student learning, wellbeing, engagement and inclusion at the centre of whole-school improvement.

Highly developed skills in leading and managing change, building staff capability and establishing consistent whole-school approaches.

SC2: Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability

Outstanding organisational, managerial and resource management skills, with the capacity to manage complex student matters,



competing priorities and operational demands.

SC3: Planning, Policy and Program Development and Review

Demonstrated capacity to develop, implement and evaluate programs and interventions including department policies and processes that improve student wellbeing, engagement, inclusion, behaviour and learning outcomes, child safety and attendance.

Demonstrated capacity to use student wellbeing, engagement and learning data to inform planning and whole-school improvement.

SC4: Leadership of Staff and Students

Demonstrated capacity to lead, develop and embed whole-school approaches to student regulation and re-engagement, building staff capability and ensuring consistent practices that support students to successfully participate in learning.

SC5: Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, with the capacity to build positive and productive relationships with students, staff, families and external professionals.

Role

The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.

This role will have a particular responsibility for leading and overseeing student engagement within the Middle School, with a focus on attendance, engagement, wellbeing, behaviour and ensuring students are supported to remain connected to their learning and experience a positive and successful journey through the middle years.

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 aut

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