About the Role
The principal exercises leadership responsibility of the College community through:
Spiritual Leadership
The Principal:
• Has an active and visible engagement in the Anglican Church faith community.
• Leads by example and actively encourages staff and student behaviour consistent with Christian philosophy and teaching, the Anglican Ethos Statement, and the Vision and Mission of the College.
This is achieved by:
• Embracing the Diocesan Vision: Flourishing faith communities: proclaiming and serving, worshipping and learning. and Mission: The Mission of the Church is the Mission of Christ – to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God.
• Working closely with the Episcopate and leadership of the Diocese as well as staff of the Anglican Schools Commission.
• Inspiring and encouraging staff and students in their faith journey in line with the Anglican ethos and values where all God’s children are welcomed, loved and affirmed.
• Working closely with the College Chaplain to ensure the rituals and traditions of the Anglican Church are visible, practised and meaningful to the College community.
• Ensuring the provision of appropriate courses of religious education within the School, opportunities for public worship and encouraging student Baptism, Admission to Holy Communion, and Confirmation in the form approved by the Anglican Church of Australia.
• Actively seeking ways to connect with local Anglican parish communities.
Education Leadership
The Principal:
• Creates a positive culture of challenge and support, enabling effective and innovative teaching that promotes enthusiastic, independent learners who are committed to lifelong learning.
• Has the overall responsibility for developing and fostering a culture of effective and innovative teaching and for leading, designing and managing the quality of teaching and learning that enables students’ achievement in all aspects of their development.
• Sets high expectations for the College community through careful and collaborative planning, monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of learning.
• Sets high standards of behaviour and attendance, encouraging active engagement and a strong student voice.
• Leads curriculum review and development to ensure optimal learning outcomes for the students.
These are achieved by:
• Ensuring the vision, mission and strategic plan of the College, and policies of the College Council, are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Collaborating with the Diocese, staff, and students to determine a constructive and clear course of action to implement the vision, mission and strategic plan of the College.
• Ensuring that the content and processes of the curriculum are contemporary and relevant for the education of all students.
• Ensuring that educational policies and procedures are responsive to the diverse needs for both current and future requirements of the College and of the students.
• Developing and regularly evaluating assessment policies.
• Utilising the latest in HR software through a dedicated and talented HR team to ensure each team member’s progress is fully documented and communicated.
• Encouraging and facilitating staff development and ongoing professional development.
• Fostering and nurturing a positive and rewarding School environment which encourages innovative, responsible and forward-thinking decision making.
• Building an encouraging culture of personal and academic achievement and excellence.
• Developing an understanding of the school’s culture and qualities at all levels by providing education and support of leaders who are striving to have clear understanding of the requirement of leadership and effective management of people and process.
• Effectively engaging and utilising the College’s organisational leadership framework to further embed an organisational culture of trust, psychological safety, and innovation.
Education Management
The Principal:
• Aligns management procedures and processes to the educational goals, and the vision and values of the College.
• Has primary and overall responsibility to ensure that the College’s resources and staff are efficiently organised and managed to provide an effective and safe learning environment.
• Allocates resources effectively to maintain and improve the day-to-day operations of the School and evaluate impact on student outcomes and the efficient allocation and use of all available resources. These clarify for staff, the relationship between the College’s vision and values, and the operational tasks that support them.
• Has a remit to build a successful College through effective collaboration and communication with the Council, education and training authorities, potential, current and past students, parents, the local community and others.
• Ensures the College has access to, and adopts where relevant, a range of fit-for-purpose technologies and practices to effectively and efficiently manage the College.
These are achieved by:
• Developing, communicating and implementing an appropriate structure and operating model that will support the achievement of the strategic and educational vision of the College.
• Utilising benchmarking and a range of data management methods and technologies that includes appropriate delegation and oversight of roles, responsibilities and tasks to members of the staff and the monitoring of accountabilities.
• Overseeing the development of budgets and supervising the financial management of the College in accordance with policy and requirements of the ASC and relevant Federal and State legislation
• Establishing policies and procedures for addressing organisational matters, maintaining a safe environment, resolving conflict and managing change.
• Overseeing processes and procedures required for external government agencies.
Strategic Leadership
The Principal:
• Identifies the need for innovation and improvement that is consistent with the College’s vision and values and is informed by student learning outcomes.
• Articulates and communicates the need for change to the whole-of-community in an inspirational, understandable, and logical manner.
• Keeps abreast of current education and leadership trends and thinking, deepening their own knowledge and understanding of improvement strategies, technological advances, learning and teaching practices and curriculum approaches, and leads change and innovation at a whole-of College level.
• Recognises the importance of ensuring the College is financially strong and implements robust processes and policies to ensure the long-term financial sustainability and viability of the College.
This is achieved by:
• Fostering a culture across the College of innovation, entrepreneurship and ownership that is future focussed and at the leading edge of education.
• Working with the College faculty and College Council to produce and implement clear, evidence based improvement plans and policies for the development of the College and its facilities.
• Engaging with and inspiring teaching and professional staff to commit to evidence-based improvement, change and innovation, that has a positive impact on student learning.
• Constantly assessing and improving leadership and management practices, through critical reflection, discussion with colleagues, best-practice benchmarking and relevant professional development activities.
• Reflecting on what personal and professional conduct may convey to students, parents and to the wider community.
• Integrating relevant emerging concepts of leadership and management into one’s professional practice.
Pastoral and Professional Leadership
The Principal:
• Promotes the benefits of professional learning to all staff, ensuring their willingness and efforts to learn and improve are recognised.
• Models personal and professional learning that is clearly linked to College goals and seeks support from others as appropriate.
• Develops, communicates, and implements a personal and organisational vision that links all learning and development activities to better outcomes for students.
• Creates an ethos of respect, considering the spiritual, moral, social and physical health and wellbeing of students and staff.
• Promotes sound lifelong learning skills in students from Early Learning through their College years and into adult life.
• Works with staff to identify and prioritise their professional learning needs, based on any gaps between the requirements of their roles and their current knowledge, understanding and skills.
This is achieved by:
• Implementing mutually beneficial staff development.
• Recognising and supporting the needs of students, families and carers from communities facing complex challenges.
• Promoting and encouraging parental and carer engagement as a key aspect of raising the achievement of all students.
• Facilitating a culture of care where there is genuine concern and respect for all members of the College community.
• Ensuring the principles of justice and equity permeate all aspects of College life.
• Ensuring all students have the opportunity to experience success in some aspect of College life.
• Keeping abreast of current education and leadership trends and thinking, deepening own knowledge and understanding of improvement strategies, technological advances, learning and teaching practices and curriculum approaches, and leading change and innovation at a whole-of College level.
• Recognizing the importance of ensuring the College is financially strong and implements robust processes and policies to ensure the long-term financial sustainability and viability of the College.
Community Leadership
• Fostering a culture across the College of innovation, entrepreneurship and ownership that is future focussed and at the leading edge of education.
• Working with the College faculty and College Council to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the College and its facilities.
• Engaging with and inspiring teaching and professional staff to commit to evidence-based improvement, change and innovation, that has a positive impact on student learning.
• Constantly assessing and improving leadership and management practices, through critical reflection, discussion with colleagues, best-practice benchmarking and relevant professional development activities.
• Reflecting on what personal and professional conduct may convey to students, parents and to the wider community.
• Integrating relevant emerging concepts of leadership and management into one’s professional practice.