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About this job
Position Information
The College Principal provides visionary and strategic leadership across a multi-campus college, offering guidance and support to campus principals. In this pivotal role, the college principal fosters a positive, inclusive, and high-achieving learning environment, ensuring consistent educational standards and driving college-wide initiatives and improvement plans.
The College Principal inspires and leads educators and students towards excellence while upholding relevant policies and regulations. Collaboration across campuses, with parents, stakeholders, and the broader community is essential to support student success and ongoing multi-campus improvement, in alignment with the NSW Plan for Public Education.
As a key member of the College Management Group (CMG), the College Principal will work closely with campus principals to allocate teaching and executive staff across classes and campuses, considering individual preferences, skills, experience, teaching areas, and student needs. This leadership position is classified at the P5 salary level.
General Selection Criteria
1. High level educational leadership with the skills to lead and manage a complex public school focused on the delivery of high quality education
2. Ability to lead and manage rigorous and inclusive whole school teaching and learning programs
3. High level communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build positive relationships and engage all levels of the school and educational community
4. Ability to lead and manage the development and performance of staff to improve teaching and learning
5. Ability to plan systems and manage resources effectively and equitably to enhance teaching and learning
6. Capacity to lead staff in implementing the Department's Aboriginal education policy and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach. In addition to the general selection criteria,
- Proven ability to create transformational opportunities in a culturally diverse environment with a wide range of complexity.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and provide opportunities to ensure equitable staff access to teaching opportunities, resources and professional development, across multiple sites in a complex 7- 12 environment through an environment of transparency and integrity.
- Proven ability to build community confidence in Public Education and increase student enrolments with an emphasis on connection with community
- Exceptional skills and capability in transforming the college pathways programs from Years 7 to 12 by leveraging innovation and curiosity in collaboration with our primary partners.
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.
Special Notes
Classification Structure for Principals:
The principal classification for this school is College Principal, Level 5 for 2027.
The Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2024 details the new principal classification structure based on complexity of schools which commenced in 2016.
Please refer to the information regarding the classification structure for principals
The classification and remuneration of our school principals is based on school complexity, as measured through each school’s RAM allocation. As part of the ongoing application of the new structure a review of thresholds and outcomes will occur on an annual basis.
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
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. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion