Senior Education Officer (EOSD) - State Delivered Kindergarten, North Queensland Regional Office

Job Reference QLD/NQR576131/24T
Closing date July 18, 2024
Location Townsville region
Type Full-Time
Contact 0436 856 177

About this job

The successful candidate will be employed at the classification listed on the attached role description under EOSD provisions.

About Us:

The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

Your Role:

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 statewide implementation activities.
  • Understands and effectively communicates opportunities for improvement by negotiating and redesigning systems and processes to optimise outcomes.

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). 

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