Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: VG/DE/VATL/1955374

Are you passionate about shaping high-impact professional learning programs for teachers and school leaders? The Manager, Teacher Programs leads the strategic support and implementation of the Academy’s teacher-facilitated professional learning programs, including through leading a team of Principals in Residence and Expert Teacher in Residence. This role sets direction, ensures quality and leads a high-performing team.

Thispositionis ongoing

Are you passionate about shaping high-impact qualified learning programs for teachers and school leaders?

The Academy's mission is to enhance and improve student outcomes across rural, regional and metropolitan schools through specialised professional learning and pathways, and to raise public awareness of the profession. Information on our legislated objectives is available on our website: Our strategy and story | Academy .

At the Academy, we are passionate about meaningful and exciting work that has an impact on education and student outcomes. Our shared purpose is to create and offer evidence-informed professional learning programs, events and initiatives designed to take Victoria's highly skilled teachers and school leaders from great to exceptional and advance the quality and status of teaching and school leadership. We also provide pathways for school and system improvement and raise public awareness of and confidence in the profession across government, Catholic and independent systems.

We care about the quality of our work, demonstrate collective responsibility for continuous improvement and support each other to do the very best we can every day to achieve our goals.





The Academy is a learning organisation that provides opportunities for employees to grow. We have a positive culture that we are building together, where people feel supported, valued and heard.

About the Division

The Teaching and Leadership Excellence Division leads and delivers a comprehensive portfolio of evidence-informed high-quality professional learning for teachers and school leaders across the government, Catholic and independent sectors. It enables excellence inteaching andleadership,including in literacy and mathematics,and student learning and wellbeingoutcomes, and builds leadership capability at all career stages, from emerging leaders to system leaders.

Programs are grounded in high-quality professional learning principles and aligned to either the Academy Leadership Excellence Framework and/or the Academy Teaching Excellence Model, supporting educators to translate evidence into practice, lead improvement, and drive sustained impact in their context.

The division provides thought leadership, resources and insights to the profession, drawing on expertise in education policy, teaching and learning, and program and project management. Its workforce includes teaching service staff (Principals in Residence and Expert Teachers in Residence) alongside Victorian Public Service staff.





The division works in close partnership with the Academy Services Division to ensure seamless participant support,customerexperienceand high-qualityprogram design. Additionally,thedivision works withthe Business Services Division to enable effective learning environments and technology,project and program management support, and the Regional Division to coordinate consistent, place-based delivery across Victoria.

About the Team

TheTeacherProgramsunitis responsible forthe design and delivery of a range of programs and resources that help teachers elevate their practice, increase theirimpactan d build their networks.This team includes the Academy'sExpert Teacher in Residence initiative in addition to needs-basedteaching and leadership programs.

About the Role

The Manager, Teacher Programs leads the strategic support and implementation of the Academy's teacher-facilitated professional learning programs, including through leading a team of Principals in Residence and Expert Teacher in Residence. This role sets direction, ensures quality and leads a high-performing team.

The responsibilities of the Manager, Teacher Programs include:

- leading the strategic design, development and continuous improvement of the Teacher Programs unit
- leading, managing and developing a high-performing team who deliver a sub-set of the Academy's professional learning programs and projects across the life cycle from program inception through to program close and evaluation
- providing strategic advice on program and portfolio direction, systems, processes, policies, tools, quality standards and delivery models to internal and external stakeholders
- overseeing procurement, contracts an

📌 Manager Teacher Programs (Australia)
🏢 Department Of Education
📍 Australia