Responsibilities
Regional leadership, strategy and service delivery development
* Contribute to the development of regional priorities and service delivery with a focus on lifting outcomes for all children and young people at the local level.
* Contribute to regional system and service redesign and improvement.
* Support schools to build their leadership and school improvement capacity, particularly in the implementation of FISO.
* Play a key role in the leadership of multidisciplinary area teams.
* Take a leadership role for specific region and area-wide projects or committees as required by the Regional Director or Education Area Executive Director.
* Maintain a focus on high risk and/or high impact areas and take personal responsibility for managing issues and risks effectively at the regional and local level, including integrity and compliance risks.
Facilitating and maintaining effective regional relationships
* Manage internal and external relationships to initiate and implement system change as related to the Education State.
* Build strong relationships with individual principals, across school networks, and facilitate positive relationships between the multidisciplinary area team, the region, the centre, schools, principals and networks.
* Contribute to cross-agency and sector collaboration, strengthening relationships, networks and partnerships between corporate DET, school leaders and other government and community organisations within the local area.
* Influence change in the area, including through the exchange of information and through proactive advocacy for lifting child and learner outcomes.
System planning
* Play a key role in the implementation of Education State initiatives and provide implementation insights to inform ongoing policy design.
School and early childhood service monitoring and improvement strategies
* Play a key role in the implementation of the Regional Performance Framework through area-level assessment and monitoring of the quality and effectiveness of area-level service delivery, identification of risks to quality and effective service delivery and gaps in service provision.
* Support all schools to implement the FISO improvement cycle, including tailoring, amending and monitoring their School Strategic Plans, Annual Implementation Plans, and principal and teacher performance and development plans to reflect FISO initiatives.
* Lead improvement strategies at the local level.
* Participate as agreed in government school principal selection and contract renewal, and support principal performance and development processes.
Required Capabilities
* Executive Leadership
* Teamwork
* Organisational awareness
* Influence and negotiation
* Stakeholder management
* Relationship building
* Interpersonal skills
* Conceptual and analytical ability
Qualifications
* Essential: Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline
* Desirable: Post Graduate Degree in a relevant discipline
Diversity and Inclusion
The Department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms – culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability.
Child Safe Standards
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards.
Child Safety Code of Conduct: https:///pal/child-safe-standards/policy
Location Profile
The Department leads the delivery of education and development services to children and young people both directly through government schools and indirectly through the regulation and funding of early childhood services, non-government schools and training programs.
Applications close
Applications close Thursday 7 May
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