About this job
The successful candidate will be employed at the classification listed on the attached role description under EOSD provisions.
Your Role:
The Senior Education Officer Autism will work to support the Equity and Excellence Education Strategy to ensure our students with autism are Building on Foundations. The role will work with South East Region school teams in primary school, to build capability and confidence to identify and implement Evidence-based practices, to support improved outcomes for autistic students. The role works with school teams through a combination of observation, live coaching and resource sharing, to co-design action plans for implementation. The action plans will be regularly reviewed to ensure fidelity of implementation of evidence-based practices, as well as monitoring student progress through the collection of data to inform next steps. You will also be analysing data and liaising with regional staff and school teams to identify students that require additional support. The Senior Education Officer Autism will need to undertake continual professional development to ensure they are abreast of the latest evidence-based practices.
Responsibilities include:
- Apply specialist expertise to oversee and manage all aspects of implementing departmental initiatives and strategies, focusing on actions relating to project management and leadership of relevant programs.
- Proficiently adapts consultation expertise to develop and lead a peer review process of a range of strategies.
- Understands the current educational environment and provides advice on processes and protocols for a coordinated implementation approach to a range of strategies.
- Liaise, consult and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to provide high quality advice within agreed state wide frameworks and processes.
- Demonstrates a high level commitment to professional development and the best practice approach to implement strategies that contribute to improvement.
- Imparts a thorough understanding of the practicalities of improvements to ensure uptake of improvement strategies and initiatives.
- Provide current educational research, evidenced based practices and effective use of available technology to lead and manage teams with the aim of improving outcomes.
- Design and implement effective options to align improvement initiatives with state-wide implementation activities.
A comprehensive list of responsibilities are detailed in the attached role description. Interested applicants should refer to this attachment prior to application.
Mandatory Requirements:
- You must be a permanent employee of the department with a substantive teaching or classified officer role employed under Teaching in State Education Award - State 2016, have current full registration as a teacher and should be aware that temporary internal moves for the purposes of the department's payroll processes are referred to as internal secondments.
- Employees' engaged temporarily as Education Officer - Special Duties have a requirement of 36¼ hours per week attendance and arrangements as outlined in clause 5.12 of the Department of Education State School Teachers' Certified Agreement 2022
- When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
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).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
s 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).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.