Principal Project Consultant - Caldeylink

Advertised Vacancy Number: DOE881613

This is a fixed term, part-time (0.4 FTE) position commencing ASAP up until December 2025 

Professional Benefits

Working for the Department of Education attracts a range of attractive professional and personal benefits including:

• 11 percent employer contributions to superannuation
• More than 20 days of other leave, including sick leave and carers’ leave

The Role and our Branch

Statewide Services provides the services and supports required by schools to enable student achievement, with a focus on those students and schools that need it most. It encompasses both school and system-facing service delivery. While it primarily exists to support schools, it also has an important system-facing role supporting strategy and policy development. 

Service Delivery is the key interface with schools. Its purpose is to plan, coordinate and deliver targeted services that support schools and regions to improve student achievement. 

The Primary, Early Childhood and Education Support Directorate provides coordinated services and expertise with a focus on schools identified as requiring support to improve the achievement of their K-6 students. It also performs a similar function for education support schools and centres.

The branch coordinates and brokers access to responsive support for early childhood initiatives and contributes to relevant strategic initiatives in primary education. It provides advice and subject matter expertise to schools, regions, and the system in relation to primary, early childhood and education support, and manages programs and initiatives that provide specialist and/or targeted servicers to schools with primary-aged students.

The Primary, Early Childhood and Education Support Branch is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and dedicated individual to the role of Principal Project Consultant - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Early Years Link (CaLDEYLink) to join their team.

We encourage all applicants with diverse professional experiences to apply.

As the Principal Project Consultant - CaLDEYLink, the successful applicant will coordinate and facilitate initiatives, including developing, implementing and reviewing ‘play and learn’ practices, resources and content for the implementation, ongoing delivery and support of the trial; Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Early Years Link initiative (the Initiative) in participating government schools.

You will support the ongoing review and development of the program to ensure the most significant impact for CaLD students accessing the program.

Cultural Diversity

The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Your written application will be assessed against the following Selection Criteria:

1. Demonstrated highly developed skills, knowledge and experience in the application of policies, procedures and initiatives associated with English as an additional language or dialect, and early childhood education.
2. Demonstrated highly developed oral and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to consult, liaise, negotiate effectively and maintain collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
3. Demonstrated highly developed written communication and presentation skills, including experience in preparing reports, briefings and general correspondence and in conducting professional learning.
4. Demonstrated substantial skills and experience in initiating, developing, coordinating and managing programs, projects or strategies in an educational setting.
5. Demonstrated highly developed research, conceptual and analytical skills, including the ability to analyse data, and provide solutions to strategic and/or operational problems and issues.

For a full outline of the role responsibilities and selection criteria, please refer to the JDF.

It is recommended that you consider all information contained in the advertisement and any other related information before applying for the vacancy.

All inquiries are welcomed

Please contact Steven Andree, Manager - Primary Early Childhood and Education Support by telephoning (08) 6206 20***or emailing *************@education.wa.edu.au

Application Instructions

All applications are submitted online. Select “Apply for Job”, at either the top or bottom of this screen and follow all instructions. It is recommended you have relevant documents completed and ready to attach with your online application. Please allow enough time to complete this process as applications must be received prior to the closing date and time.

Your application should include:

• A three (3) page statement addressing the selection criteria listed above, in context of the role and business needs of the branch
• A CV of up to five (5) pages outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position
• The contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current line manager.

After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please phone (08) 9264 4***.

If you are having difficulty submitting your online application, please phone (08) 9264 86***for assistance.

Eligibility and Training Requirements

Employees will be required to:

• provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia for the term of the vacancy;
• hold a recognised qualification in teaching and be currently registered or eligible for registration to teach in Western Australia
• complete the Department’s induction program within three months of commencement
• complete the Department’s training in Accountable and Ethical Decision-Making within six months of appointment and every three years thereafter.
• complete the Department’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness online course within 3 months of commencement; and
• complete any training specific to this role required by Departmental policy
• consent to a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and obtain a current Screening Clearance Number issued by the Department of Education’s Screening Unit prior to commencement of employment
• obtain or hold a current Working with Children Check if required

The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.

Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Wednesday, 20 March 2024.

Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions at, or after, 4:30pm will not be accepted.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE 

PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED

This selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy. Applicants assessed as suitable during this selection process may be considered for other similar vacancies that occur throughout our division for up to 12 months following this initial appointment. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position.

• published jdf
• 00041153
• Principal Project Consultant
• caldeylink
• literacy and numeracy
• ps l7
• feb 2021.pdf

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