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About this job
Position Information
Jindabyne High School relocated to its new site in 2025, nestled on Ngarigo land at the base of the Snowy Mountains, two hours south of Canberra.
Home to approximately 300 students (with 5% identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander), we foster equity, resilience, and a love of learning through collective efficacy and a commitment to personal best. Catering to a diverse student population, we place a strong emphasis on academics, sport, creative and performing arts, and technology, ensuring student needs, aspirations, and opportunities are met.
Our flexible and responsive Years 7–12 curriculum supports smooth transitions throughout schooling, with a focus on pathways to tertiary study, trades-based careers, and lifelong learning. High expectations, quality teaching, and comprehensive wellbeing support, drive innovative learning experiences that empower student success through our school values of respect, integrity and courage.
Our unique setting is a catalyst for our school motto, Rivers of Learning, Mountains of Opportunity, and enriches a range of specialised programs and extracurricular opportunities, enhanced by strong parent and community partnerships that connect students to broader perspectives and future possibilities.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Industrial Technology – Timber, with a willingness to teach Construction.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a faculty team, contributing to a positive and supportive working environment through effective communication, shared expertise and a commitment to collective responsibility.
Demonstrated knowledge of the TAS curriculum, with the ability to design and deliver engaging, practical and differentiated learning experiences that meet the diverse learning needs of students.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated capacity to build and maintain positive, respectful relationships with students, parents and the wider school community.
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
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior professional experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2-week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.