Calamvale Community College is looking for a dedicated Attendance Officer to join our energetic administration team. In this key role, you’ll support both primary and secondary college leaders by managing the attendance of students at Calamvale Community College. Daymap experience is highly desirable, so if you're organised, proactive, and community-minded, we’d love to have you on board!

Job details

Who We Are:

Calamvale Community College is a multicultural Independent Public School in Brisbane with over 2,500 students and around 190 staff, proudly serving Prep to Year 12 across two well-equipped campuses offering International Baccalaureate courses to their students. Calamvale Community College inspires learners to become curious, creative, and clever through inquiry-based learning and excellence pathways in STEAM, languages, hospitality, and sport. Guided by the motto "Building on Success", Calamvale Community College thrives on community, global-mindedness, and collaborative achievement, making it a rewarding and energising place to work and grow as an educator.

Step Into Your Next Chapter:

• Generate daily reports on absenteeism, send SMS messages to parents/carers, advise and follow up with teachers, and document relevant information on an excel spreadsheet and on OneSchool.
• Generate a ‘Daily Attendance Report' every morning and provide to all teaching staff and deputy principals, and advising teachers of amendments to attendance records due to late notification.
• Collect and coordinate data to determine and document reasons for absences by students chronically absent, monitor student programs, and provide information to teachers and school leaders where necessary, liaising with Student Support Officer, Head of Special Education Program, and Guidance Officer to address issues relating to students experiencing problems that prevent their engagement at school.
• Maintain a database listing student that are independent students, students residing with carers (guardian kinship care/child safety officers), students where there are legal orders against the parents/guardians, or other issues that may impact on student attendance.

Please view the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities.

Submit Your Application:

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 1-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

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. 

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 Applicant Information Package and follow the instructions.

Documents

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

• Applicant Information Package (PDF, 245KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MSR651824_25T Role Description (PDF, 239KB)
  Role Description