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About this job
Position Information
Armidale Secondary College is a state-of-the-art, purpose-built campus which commenced on its current site in Term 1, 2021. The school draws on the long and proud history and traditions of both Armidale High School and Duval High School. Current enrolment is 1080 students, 25% students are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and 26% of students are from a non-English speaking and/or refugee background. Armidale Secondary College has 130 teaching and 40 support staff with an active P&C.
The school is partially selective (Years 7-10), has a Support Unit (4 classes), an Aboriginal Learning and Engagement Centre and shares the site with the Armidale Intensive English Centre. Current school focus areas include student voice and high-challenge, high-support teaching and learning strategies. Other key priorities include quality systems and processes including highly effective transitions from partner public primary schools, school culture and student and staff wellbeing.
The Armidale Secondary College vision statement ‘Our Future, Our Learning’ reflects a commitment to an environment that will create strong and open partnerships between our students, staff, home, community, local industry, training and further education providers. We encourage a growth mindset that allows our whole school community to strive for improvement.
The core values of ‘Respect, Responsibility and Resilience’ speak to our commitment to work collaboratively with all members of our school community to provide a safe, caring and responsive learning environment where our students own, tailor and take responsibility for their learning journey.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated ability to lead the development and implementation of high-quality syllabus-based curricula and evaluate their impact across a broad range of HSIE subjects at all stages for both students and staff.
- Evidence of outstanding leadership, communication and interpersonal skills in managing a large and complex team with a range of experience, to deliver school initiatives at a faculty level.
- Demonstrated capacity to engage community stakeholders to develop inclusive learning experiences that are engaging and differentiated to improve outcomes for all students including First Nations students and students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the executive team to lead, manage and implement who school improvement processes and initiatives that address school and faculty priorities, identified in the School Improvement Plan.
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
The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.
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 and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.