AddressThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of the new Education Futures Institute 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.
The successful candidate will be employed at the classification listed on the attached role description under EOSD provisions.
About the Role
As the Senior Education Officer, Capability, you will:
- Coordinate, manage and evaluate a range of capability development activities, aligned to research-based, evidence backed and standards-informed practices, and relevant to the location, context and differentiated model of support.
- Deliver professional learning and capability for educators, aligned to the implementation of the Australian Curriculum and QCAA senior syllabus, with a focus on school leaders, to enact Equity and Excellence, priorities and focus capability areas.
- Strengthen school leadership teams', curriculum leaders' and teachers' knowledge of the Australian Curriculum and related disciplinary knowledge by focusing professional development on what students are to learn, evidence-based teaching strategies, and how to differentiate learning to achieve improvement.
- Work with your regional team and collaborate with a network of peers around the state in regional campuses and a centrally located team to provide targeted capability development in the following priority areas:
- Australian Curriculum
- Reading
- Effective, evidence-informed whole school approach to pedagogy
- Junior Secondary pedagogy
- Early Years/K-2 ‘Starting Strong'
- Maintain teaching competency and currency of knowledge of pedagogy and current curriculum programs to ensure the delivery of effective professional development.
About You
Within the context of the role described above, the ideal applicant will be someone who has the following key capabilities:
- Demonstrated teaching and learning competence and capacity to provide pedagogical leadership to promote the achievement of effective teachers and quality learning outcomes for students.
- Demonstrated competence to lead strategically, make insightful, courageous and ethical decisions and lead change in complex environments.
- Demonstrated experience in building and sustaining relationships through clarity, engagement and purpose, with a collaborative focus on outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate evidence based, targeted professional learning opportunities that build leader and teacher expertise and improve outcomes for students.
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 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.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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