Job Description - Principal Level P2 - Ramsgate Public School (0000B3R4)
Location
Sydney Region
School Name
Ramsgate Public School
Remuneration Package
Base salary $192,461.00 – Total remuneration package $217,879.00.
Contact
Phone: 131 536
School Admin:
Closing Date
19-Nov-2025, 5:00:00 AM
Classification
Principal Level P2 – 2025 and 2026
Position Information
Ramsgate Public School serves a culturally diverse community of around 460 students, including 63% EAL/D learners and 2.8% identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. The school community is inclusive and strongly connected, supported by an active P&C; and community partnerships through after‑school programs, an onsite OOSH service, and a weekly organic market. Located in Ramsgate Beach, the school is recognised for its commitment to academic excellence and positive relationships. Staff focus on explicit teaching and restorative practices to strengthen learning and wellbeing. Improvements in NAPLAN and Check‑in assessments, particularly in writing, reflect the impact of these approaches. Proactive, student‑centred systems promote positive behaviour, a growth mindset, and successful learner dispositions. In its 2024 External Validation, the school was validated as Excelling or Sustaining and Growing across all School Excellence Framework elements. Future directions include maintaining responsive, evidence‑based programs, strengthening curriculum implementation and targeted literacy and numeracy support, enhancing family engagement, and expanding professional learning focused on relational practice. Through these priorities, Ramsgate Public School aims to continue fostering a thriving, inclusive, and high‑performing learning environment.
Specific Selection Criteria
- A highly visible and approachable leader who builds positive, authentic partnerships with all members of the school community to further develop a culture of high expectations and trust, inspiring and enabling all students, staff and community to contribute and achieve their best in a thriving educational environment.
- Proven capacity to lead the implementation and achievement of the School Excellence Plan, with a focus on reflective, evidence informed, evaluative practices to improve the learning and well‑being outcomes for all students, in alignment with the NSW Plan for Public Education.
- Demonstrated strength in instructional leadership, building the capability and collective efficacy of all staff through a culture of collaboration and high impact skilled learning resulting in sustained and measurable whole school improvement.
General Selection Criteria
- High level educational leadership with the skills to lead and manage a complex public school focused on the delivery of high quality education.
- Ability to lead and manage rigorous and inclusive whole school teaching and learning programs.
- High level communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build positive relationships and engage all levels of the school and educational community.
- Ability to lead and manage the development and performance of staff to improve teaching and learning.
- Ability to plan systems and manage resources effectively and equitably to enhance teaching and learning.
- Capacity to lead staff in implementing the Department’s Aboriginal education policy and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.
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
Classification Structure for Principals: The Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2020 details the new principal classification structure based on complexity of schools which commenced in 2016. Please view information on the Classification structure for Principals at The principal classification for this school is Principal Level P2 for 2025 and Principal Level P2 for 2026.
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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ( ) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion. New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. Guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.
Other Information
We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.
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