Collegiate Principal

This position is only available to staff currently employed as a Principal at the Department of Education. We have 2x, 36 month fixed term, full-time positions commencing Term 2, 2027.

The Division

The Statewide Services Division encompasses both school and system-facing service delivery models. While the Division provides the services and supports required by schools to enable student achievement, with a focus on those students and schools that need it most, it also has an important system facing role supporting strategy and policy development. The Leadership, Learning and Development Directorate has the responsibility of ensuring the provision of high quality, system endorsed professional programs for our people for their ongoing development. The Directorate will provide strategic advice to senior leadership on high quality professional learning and coordinate and quality assure the delivery of professional learning, as part of broader system reform. Collegiate principals are a service to support school leaders within the Leadership, Learning and Development Directorate.

The Role

Collegiate principals will provide support to all public school principals to enhance connectedness across our system. The collegiate principal will use their experience and highly developed personal attributes to:

• Develop a trusted relationship with school leaders to maximise impact of the support.
• Assist school leaders to reflect, identify and develop opportunities for improved school, teacher and student performance.
• Enhance connectedness across our system to access support at point of need.
• Work alongside Directors of Education, Public School Review and Principal Performance Review Directors and Statewide Services teams to enable the most impactful support to be made available to principals.
• Work at a system level to advance the strategic agenda and respond to support needs.

What we are looking for

We are looking for experienced regional and metropolitan-based substantive school principals:

• With experience working in different school contexts.
• Have exemplary knowledge and skills in school improvement practices.

Demonstrate the following personal attributes:

• Openness and capacity for learning.
• Trustworthiness.
• Resilience.
• Interpersonal acumen.
• A drive to excel.

It is important to note the Collegiate Principal position is an ‘at level’ system role. Principals appointed to a Collegiate Principal role:

• Are required to travel on a regular basis.
• Can be released for a period not exceeding a total of 12 school terms to undertake any system level role.

Skills and attributes

Collegiate Principals will bring the following skills and attributes to the role:

• High-level knowledge and understanding of the policies, frameworks, issues and processes relevant to supporting the school improvement cycle.
• Experience and skills in providing support and feedback to principals in relation to enhanced performance and wellbeing.
• High-level oral, written and technological communication skills including extensive experience in high-level negotiation, influencing and engagement with stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Exceptional interpersonal acumen that includes the ability to quickly develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and internal and external stakeholders.
• Openness and capacity for learning, trustworthiness, resilience, self-awareness and a drive to excel.

Professional Benefits

We are conveniently located in Leederville and our employees enjoy a range of benefits which include:

• Generous leave entitlements including annual, personal, long service and parental leave.
• Professional development opportunities and study leave/assistance.
• Access to salary packaging (in accordance with relevant industrial instruments).

Want to know more?

Full details of the role, selection criteria and training requirements are listed in the attached Job Description Form (JDF). For more information about this opportunity, please contact Eleanor Hughes, Director, Leadership on (08) 9413 33*** or by emailing **************@education.wa.edu.au.

We are committed to building the leadership capability of our people (Building Leadership Impact).

Equity and Diversity

We are committed to an inclusive and culturally responsive workforce reflecting the diversity in our workplaces and the Western Australian community. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, young people, people of diverse sexualities and genders, people with disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

To work with us, you must:

• Hold a substantive public school principal position.
• Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or have a valid visa with relevant work rights for the term of the appointment.
• Consent to a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and obtain a current Screening Clearance Number issued by the Department of Education’s Screening Unit before you start.
• Obtain or hold a current Working with Children Check.

More information about employment eligibility can be found on our website and in the attached Job Description Form (JDF).

Advertised Vacancy Number: DOE1066408. Applicants assessed as suitable may be considered for similar vacancies that arise in our branch within the next 12 months. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position. The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process. Applications close: 4.30pm (AWST) on Wednesday, 11 November 2026.