Overview
* Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
* Salary: Salary not specified
* Grade: Assistant Principal - Range 3
* Occupation: Principal and assistant principal
* Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs
* Reference: 1528452
Location Profile
Narre Warren South P-12 College is located in Melbourne's South East.
Role Summary
The Assistant Principal: Head of Primary will report directly to the principal. They will manage a team of staff to lead year levels from Foundation to Grade 6, driving high levels of academic achievement and wellbeing. The role involves setting up and overseeing clear processes to enable students to build a culture of academic rigour across the primary school.
Applicants must have experience in acting principal, assistant principal, or significant primary school leadership roles. They should understand primary school pedagogies, including Explicit Direct Instruction, and teaching approaches aligned with the Science of Learning. They must articulate an ambitious vision for the primary space and create systems to monitor student learning and wellbeing data to support early identification of students needing additional support.
Selection Criteria
* Educational leadership
o Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.
o Highly developed skills in leading and managing change, including the leadership of others in the process of change.
* Financial, managerial and administrative ability
o Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.
* Planning, policy and program development and review
o Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.
o Demonstrated ability to implement departmental policies to a high level.
o Commitment to the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.
* Leadership of staff and students
o Highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
o Clear capacity to foster a learning workplace that accounts for the individual needs of students and helps students develop their special abilities and talents.
* Interpersonal and communication skills
o Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.
o Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.
o Ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.
Responsibilities
* Supervision and coordination of the work of senior curriculum or level coordinators.
* Allocation of budgets, positions of responsibility and other resources within the area of responsibility.
* Supervision of the delivery of teaching programmes.
* Management of programmes to improve the knowledge and experience of staff.
* Responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers and year level coordinators.
* Contribution to the overall management of the school.
Who May Apply
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Diversity and Inclusion
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. It values 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. 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 provides reasonable adjustments for staff with disability.
Child Safe Standards
Victorian government schools are child‐safe environments. All school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in accordance with child safe standards. The Child Safety Code of Conduct is aligned with the department's exemplar, available at policy link.
DE Values
Employees commit to upholding the department's values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. These values complement each school's values and underpin the behaviours expected of Victorian public sector employees.
Qualification Requirements
* Provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
* If the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program on or after 1 January 2024, they must have satisfactorily completed an accredited initial teacher education programme satisfying the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership standards.
* Graduates of a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016 must have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE). The condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian ITE program completed by the person.
Application Details
Applications close Thursday 4 June 2026 at 11.59pm.
Posted 22 May 2026.
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