About this job
About the Department
Working for the Queensland Department of Education means joining an organisation that values its people and promotes leadership and innovation. Be part of an environment that respects professionalism and diversity, offers training and development opportunities and embraces flexible careers and work-life balance. Find out more about working with us.
Your Role
As the Principal Advisor, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, you will:
- Provide leadership and advice in the planning and implementation of a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support framework at the regional and school level to support the department's agenda for improvement in schools.
- Provide high level strategic advice to senior officers of the department and other key stakeholders on issues relevant to the specific accountabilities of the role.
- Lead the development and delivery of professional learning and resources to build capability across schools and the region.
- Support schools to define and allocate roles and responsibilities within their MTSS framework.
- Work with school teams to co-develop action plans that set measurable goals for establishing, implementing, and embedding MTSS.
- Guide schools through staged implementation cycles, ensuring fidelity, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on the effectiveness of MTSS implementation to support continuous improvement.
- Foster collaboration with schools, regional staff and external partners to build shared understanding and practice excellence.
- Advocate for evidence-based approaches and drive innovation in student support strategies.
- Collaborate with regional inclusion, wellbeing, behaviour, and curriculum teams to ensure consistent messaging and support to schools.
Responsibilities
The Principal Advisor, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support has responsibility for the following:
- Work collaboratively with senior officers, key partners and regions to shape strategic thinking to promote and support the delivery of a state-wide consistent multi-tiered framework for behaviour support.
- Advise region and school teams in evidence-based strategies required to develop whole school, multi-tiered framework.
- Lead, manage and monitor the success of significant implementation projects, strategies, policies and innovative educational frameworks and communicate with key stakeholders and clients to raise awareness of the impacts of significant milestones, issues and achievements.
- Implement evaluation and monitoring processes which measure the impact of strategic initiatives and administrative processes to inform current and future agendas.
- Foster a challenging, equitable, ethical and safe work environment that encourages, professional growth and continuous improvement.
- liaison and communication skills to enable the effective resolution of complex organisational issues, including the capacity and ability to negotiate or communicate on behalf of the office with clients or other interested groups.
Please refer to the attached role description for the full list of responsibilities and mandatory requirements for this position.
Interested? To Apply
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should be familiar with your relevant work history).
- Attach a written statement (2-page maximum) in response to the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
idered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.