About Urban College

Urban College is a growing independent school in Melbourne's outer east, built around a simple belief: every young person deserves a place where they belong. We serve students aged 14–21 across multiple campuses — young people who may not have thrived in traditional school settings, many of whom are navigating significant complexity in their lives.

About the role

The Head of Teaching and Learning is a College-wide senior leadership role, accountable to the Executive Principal for the quality, compliance and consistency of teaching and learning across all campuses. The role owns curriculum, assessment and reporting compliance, oversees the College’s teaching and learning model, and sets common standards and quality assurance processes in partnership with Heads of Campus.

As a member of the senior leadership team, the role gives the Executive Principal consolidated advice on educational performance, compliance and risk, and maintains the College-wide frameworks that ensure students are engaged and achieving, so that families can have confidence in their young person’s learning.

Key responsibilities

1. Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Compliance

• Establish and maintain a College-wide curriculum compliance and assurance framework, with accountability for identifying, documenting and escalating non-compliance against the requirements of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) and the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA).

• Oversee and own assessment compliance, including consistent Satisfactory (S) and Not Satisfactory (N) judgements across classes and campuses through regular moderation.

• Oversee and own reporting compliance, ensuring student reports and government reporting requirements are met accurately and on time for each campus.

• Lead College-wide readiness for audits and regulatory reviews, including evidence registers, corrective actions, and assurance reporting on diagnostic testing, learning adjustments and student achievement data.

• Maintain a register of material curriculum, assessment and reporting risks that feeds into the College’s central risk framework, oversee corrective action plans, and escalate issues with recommendations to the Executive Principal.

2. Teaching & Learning Model

In partnership with Heads of Campus:

• Oversee the College’s teaching and learning model, including the implementation of project-based learning.

• Lead the pedagogical development of Teachers,



identifying the teaching strategies and approaches that work best for each year’s student cohort and supporting Teachers to apply them across all campuses.

• Use data on student achievement, attendance and engagement to inform teaching practice and improvement.

• Lead strategies to improve student attendance and engagement in learning.

• Plan and lead professional learning for Teachers and Learning Assistants on the teaching and learning model, assessment and learning adjustments.

• Identify and source external professional learning opportunities for Teachers and Learning Assistants.

• Apply a Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) lens to curriculum planning and implementation, so learning adjustments are planned, evidenced and recorded consistently.

• Ensure learning adjustments for students are planned, documented and consistent with their Individual Education Plans (IEPs).

3. Partnership with Heads of Campus

• Monitor teaching quality through classroom observations and moderation of assessments.

• Provide strategic guidance and leadership development to Heads of Campus, who retain responsibility for the day-to-day supervision and management of campus teaching staff.

• Partner with Heads of Campus to mentor and develop their Teachers.

• Act as Head of Campus when required, providing continuity of leadership during absences or vacancies.

• Act as a Teacher during absences that cannot otherwise be covered, ensuring continuity of learning for students.

4. VET & VASS

• Hold executive oversight of College-wide Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Victorian Assessment Software System (VASS) compliance, including line management of the VET/VASS Administrator and assurance of clear processes, controls and accountability.

• Ensure VASS enrolment and results data is accurate and meets VCAA deadlines.

5. Cross-Campus Consistency & Growth

• Ensure curriculum, assessment and teaching practice is consistent across Boronia, Croydon and future campuses.





• Lead the educational readiness and curriculum implementation workstream for future campuses, including consistent curriculum frameworks, regulatory readiness and implementation milestones reported to the Executive Principal.

• Work with the Head of Strategy and Engagement on whole-of-college initiatives and major projects, bringing an educational perspective to planning and delivery.

• Prepare consolidated College-wide teaching and learning performance, regulatory compliance and risk reports for the Executive Principal, and provide Board-level reporting and recommendations as required.

What we're looking for

Experience & Knowledge

• Demonstrated senior or executive educational leadership experience, including organisation-wide accountability, governance reporting and the ability to lead through campus-based leaders.

• Sound understanding of the VCE Vocational Major curriculum and VCAA requirements.

• Sound understanding of the NCCD and how learning adjustments are planned, evidenced and recorded.

• Demonstrated experience leading curriculum, assessment and teaching quality across a school or multiple sites.

• Experience coaching and developing leaders and Teachers.

• Experience with project-based learning and with students who are anxious, neurodiverse or disengaged from mainstream schooling highly regarded.

• Demonstrated capability in education regulatory assurance, audit readiness and compliance reporting; knowledge of VET and VASS highly regarded.

• Experience in a Special Assistance School or other alternative education setting desirable, but not required.

Skills & Attributes

• A disciplined, organised approach to compliance and quality assurance.

• Strong use of data to monitor student achievement, attendance and engagement.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with staff, students and families.

• Solid written and verbal communication skills.

• A collaborative, values-driven approach consistent with Urban College’s mission and student cohort.

Qualifications

• Recognised teaching qualification.

• Current registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT).

• Postgraduate qualification in education or leadership highly regarded.

For more information regarding the position, please contact Jess Hohneck on ••••@urbancollege.vic.edu.au. Applications close on Sunday 22nd of November with interviews being held during this time. If the position is filled prior to the closing date the job will be closed.

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