About this job
About the Role:
Equity and Excellence: realising the potential of every student aims to create more equitable conditions so that all schools enable all students to realise their potential.
42 Queensland state schools in the most disadvantaged, complex communities will receive a specialised system response that supports them to collaborate with partners and across government agencies to deliver locally responsive and integrated strategies to benefit students and their communities.
Schools participating in the Partnership Initiative collaborate with key educational partners and other government agencies to deliver locally responsive and integrated strategies that respond to the contextual factors impacting educational outcomes for children and young people.
Partnership Initiative has 3 Local Support teams across various locations across Queensland to support the initiative.
The Principal Project Officer reports to the Manager, Local Support Team, based in Cairns.
Duties of this role include:
- Providing project management and developing processes and support materials to support the implementation of the Partnership Initiative
- Supporting community liaison and/or providing information on programs, activities or services including supporting integrated and cross sector partnerships approaches
- Using data purposefully and ethically to evaluate or monitor the progress and impact of the project at school, community and program level;
- Preparing Partnership Initiative representations to the Minister, responses to Parliamentary Questions, preparing reports to government, preparing departmental briefing notes and correspondence;
- Ensuring effective communication, integration, coordination and liaison occurs within State Schools Division (including regions), across the department, and with other government bodies and community organisations. This includes supporting schools in direct response to feedback from principals and school supervisors;
- Undertaking research and analysis of contemporary issues relevant to place-based approaches, collective impact and culturally responsive approaches to schooling in complex communities;
- Document Partnership Initiative learnings to support consistent processes across schools participating in the Initiative.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page written statement 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.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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