Description:
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to join the Education Futures Institute (EFI) in the Queensland Department of Education.The Education Futures Institute is a key system initiative in the department's education strategy, Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student, to empower departmental staff, educators, school and system leaders to build professional expertise through high quality, targeted capability development across their career.
Four (4) Principal Project Officer positions are available from Term 2, 2024 until the end of Term 2, 2027, unless otherwise determined, within the Educational Leadership team.
About The Department Of Education
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 Opportunity
The Department of Education (DoE) is committed to ensuring Queenslanders have the education and skills they need to contribute to the economic and social development of Queensland. The department delivers world-class education services to all students and contributes to the achievement of Queensland's employment, skills and economic priorities. DoE is a large and diverse organisation with a united commitment to teaching and learning environments that are centred around child, student, and staff wellbeing and safety.
As the Department of Education enters an exciting phase implementing the new education strategy, Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student, we are investing in the capability of educational leaders and teachers through the Education Futures Institute, tasked with empowering educators and leaders to build professional expertise across their careers through high-quality, targeted development opportunities.
About The Role
The Educational Leadership team, within Education Futures Institute, Capability Branch is responsible for delivering four flagship programs including Middle Leaders, Aspiring Principals, Beginning Principals and Experienced Principals.
The Principal Project Officer Plays a Key Role In
- supporting the strategic design and development of capability programs for departmental middle, aspiring, beginning, experienced school and system leaders.
- managing one of the flagship programs including procurement, project milestones and deliverable and management of multiple cohorts of educational leaders.
- design and development of resources and materials associated with flagship leadership programs.
- providing high quality advice, briefs, submissions, papers and reports to Capability Branch and Schools and Student Support Division.
- lead and maintain liaison, communication and coordination with key stakeholders to develop coordinated implementation strategies in order to achieve required outcomes.
- have developed skills with professional learning and/or school improvement-related programs.
- have high-level written and oral communication skills.
- are able to engage with a wide range of internal and external high-level stakeholders.
- enjoy working with a diverse team to deliver outcomes and make a positive impact in education.
The duties listed above are indicative duties and not intended to be comprehensive. Duties may vary from time to time. You may be required to perform a range of tasks that are outside your main list of duties, but are within the limits of your skill, competency and training, or are incidental and peripheral to your main duties.
How To Apply
- Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
- A 2-page written response outlining your suitability for the role in response to the attached role description and within the context of the role as described above.
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).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
Occupational group Administration
30 Apr 2024;
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