At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic school community and foster innovative teaching and learning.
- Company: Cheltenham Girls' High School, a high-performing and culturally diverse institution.
- Benefits: Attractive salary package, professional development, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Join a vibrant community committed to inclusion and student wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in students' lives and shape the future of education.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills and experience in educational management required.
The predicted salary is between 46485 - 56815 $ per year.
Cheltenham Girls' High School is a large, high-performing comprehensive girls' high school with a strong history of girls' education and a culturally diverse school community. With an enrolment of approximately 1,496 students, including 81% from a non-English speaking background, the school combines high expectations for learning with a strong commitment to student wellbeing, inclusion and belonging. The school provides a broad range of academic, creative, sporting and extracurricular opportunities, including differentiated teaching strategies for EAL/D, learning support and high-potential and gifted education. Strong academic performance is complemented by a culture that values authentic student voice, leadership and active participation in school life. Cheltenham Girls' High School has highly experienced staff committed to professional learning, evidence-informed teaching and continuous improvement, supported by an engaged and culturally diverse parent and wider school community. The school's culture is underpinned by its values of Truth, Unity and Concord and a commitment to ensuring every student is known, valued and cared for.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated capacity to provide strong, strategic leadership to foster innovative, future focused teaching and learning, including diverse curriculum opportunities and pathways for all students.
- Evidence of capacity to provide strategic leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of proactive, evidence-informed practices that respond to the diverse needs of students, staff and the wider school community while sustaining a traditional culture of high expectations, engagement and achievement.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated success in building and sustaining genuine partnerships with students, staff, parents/carers and the wider community, through meaningful two-way communication with families from diverse cultural and language backgrounds, ensuring family voice informs school decision-making and that the whole school community is known, valued and cared for.
- Demonstrated capacity to embed a culture of high expectations to drive school improvement, with focus on high impact professional learning that empowers staff to meet individual student needs.
General Selection Criteria
- High level educational leadership with the skills to lead and manage a complex public school focused on the delivery of high quality education.
- Ability to lead and manage rigorous and inclusive whole school teaching and learning programs.
- High level communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build positive relationships and engage all levels of the school and educational community.
- Ability to lead and manage the development and performance of staff to improve teaching and learning.
- Ability to plan systems and manage resources effectively and equitably to enhance teaching and learning.
- Capacity to lead staff in implementing the Department's Aboriginal education policy and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.
Conditions
An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above.
We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.
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