AddressThis 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.
About the Department:
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.
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 Project Officer plays a key role in:
- Planning and initiating activities of flagship programs in line with project objectives and timelines
- Procuring flagship program elements including venues and key partners
- Preparing reports, spreadsheets, planning documentation and other written correspondence utilising a range of computer software packages.
- Resolving problems and assist in the development and implementation of initiatives, policies, processes and systems for effective and efficient administration of departmental services.
- Communicating and managing cohorts within flagship programs
Four (4) Project Officer positions are available from Term 2, 2024 until the end of Term 2, 2027 within the Educational Leadership team.
The Project Officers will report to the Manager, Educational Leadership.
The ideal applicants are people who:
- Understand the vision and strategic directions of the Department of Education
- Flexible to work across a number of priorities.
- High level writing and communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and coordination skills.
The ideal candidates for the Project Officer roles will be confident and enthusiastic team players with a comprehensive understanding of project activities.
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.
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 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.
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. ( https://alt-qed.qed.qld.gov.au/working-with-us/induction/department/human-resources/inclusion-and-diversity#:~:text=Pathways%20to%20Parity,participate%20fully%20in%20our%20workplaces. )
