Are you an experienced high performing school leader who has demonstrated ability in leading school performance and finds your purpose in developing others? Are you passionate about school improvement and have a strong knowledge and understanding of high-quality teaching and learning, with a gift for enhancing the talents of fellow educators?
As part of the Department's education strategy, Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student we are recruiting a statewide pool of exceptional educational leaders who will be dedicated school improvement coaches across the state.
If you think you have the skills, expertise and commitment necessary to develop current and future educational leaders and lift school performance, this may be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

Job details

The successful candidate will be employed at the classification listed on the attached role description under EOSD provisions.   

About the Department:

The Department of Education is 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.

Through the Department of Education's strategy, Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student, we are investing in the capability of all staff, educators and leaders through the Education Futures Institute, tasked with empowering professional expertise through high-quality, targeted development opportunities.

About the Role:

To be successful, you will demonstrate your outstanding ability to lead targeted and high impact school improvement, coaching and capability development for school principals to improve school performance.

The School Improvement Coaches are part of the Education Futures Institute and will report to Senior Principals, Capability based in each region.

Please note that the classification for this role is Stream 3, Level 1-9.

Responsibilities Include:

As a School Improvement Coach, you will:

• Deliver outstanding coaching and support to lift school performance that is informed by evidence and strongly aligned to system priorities.
• Ensure coaching is responsive to the context of each participant, school and community.
• Use evidence-based approaches to ensure coaching is supportive, job-embedded, collaborative and accessible across the state.
• Lead collaborative forums with school leaders focussing on effective leadership and school improvement.

Mandatory Requirements: 

• You must be a permanent employee of the department with a substantive teaching or classified officer role employed under Teaching in State Education Award - State 2016, have current full registration as a teacher and should be aware that temporary internal moves for the purposes of the department's payroll processes are referred to as internal secondments. 
• Employees' engaged temporarily as Education Officer - Special Duties have a requirement of 36¼ hours per week attendance and arrangements as outlined in clause 7.4 of the Department of Education State School Teachers Certified Agreement 2019. 
• When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services. 

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history);
• Attach a copy of your evidence of full registration as a teacher in Queensland.
• Once you have uploaded your resume, registration evidence and completed the initial applicant fields, please select 'Next' to complete the recruitment questionnaire.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached role description and candidate information fact sheet and follow the instructions.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• EOSD factsheet (PDF, 282KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  School Improvement Coach Selection Stages (PDF, 60KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  SIC FAQs (PDF, 656KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CO638757_25T - Role Description (PDF, 305KB)
  Role Description