Location: Tuggeranong, ACT
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Status: Full-time
Eligibility: Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident
Salary: $168,734 full-time equivalent plus superannuation.
Start Date: Monday, 28 April 2025
Closing Date: 11.55 pm, Sunday 23 March 2025
About St Mary MacKillop College
St Mary MacKillop College is Canberra’s largest secondary school, operating across two campuses. Years 7 to 9 are based on the Padua Campus (Wanniassa) and Years 10 to 12 are based on the St Peter’s Campus (Isabella Plains). MacKillop College is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Education Limited (CECG), which operates 56 Catholic Systemic Schools and nine Early Learning Centres across ACT and NSW.
The College has a wide range of talented teachers at various stages of their career and with different cultural and educational backgrounds. Many of our teachers have completed PhDs, are elite athletes, published authors, experienced builders, artists, chefs, lawyers, scientists, musicians, and more. The breadth and knowledge embedded in the College enables a friendly and supportive work environment, a wide range of curriculum options, extensive facilities, great teachers and a large number of co-curricular choices.
MacKillop is able to provide many employee benefits, including pathways to formal leadership roles, access to professional learning and resources, access to wellbeing programs, flexible working arrangements to suit personal or family needs, and support to transition from primary to secondary teaching.
MacKillop prides itself on its inclusive and welcoming community, its safe and supportive environment, its culture of quality teaching and learning, and the wide range of opportunities and experiences it can provide for its students.
About the Role
The Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning) at St Mary MacKillop College is responsible for the overall leadership of the College in matters relating to student inclusion, professional development, mentoring, and professional compliance of teachers across the College. Additionally, they oversee teacher wellbeing and work closely with the Assistant Principal Academic Care on the integration of evidence-based teaching practises. The Assistant Principal Teaching and Learning will also develop creative outreach opportunities to promote teaching and learning at the College more broadly.
The role includes the leadership of the College’s Inclusive Education and Learning Commons Faculties, enabling teachers across the College to support the needs of students. The position offers leadership which is about modelling excellence in teaching and learning. It oversees the support provided to early career teachers, staff employed on a restricted permit to teach, and the supervision of teachers moving through the professional standards from proficient to highly accomplished and lead. The role also includes the strategic oversight of professional learning for all teachers across the College.
Benefits and Opportunities
- Extensive training in our high-quality professional learning program, Catalyst
- Access to curriculum resources that support evidence-based, high-impact teaching practice
- 24 weeks of paid parental leave (maternity/adoption)
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave (paternity/non-initial primary carer leave)
- Support for professional development and study opportunities
- Opportunities to transfer to other schools within the Archdiocese across ACT and NSW to support lifestyle choice
Qualifications
- Bachelor or Master of Teaching
- Teaching Quality Institute (TQI) registration
- Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) registration
- Postgraduate qualification in Religious Education or Theological Studies or the willingness to undertake
- Academic qualifications additional to initial teacher education (Master’s Degree or five-year equivalent)
Applicants are required to submit a current resume and a cover letter that addresses the selection criteria as outlined in the Position Description.
CECG is committed to workforce diversity and creating inclusive workplaces. We welcome applications from suitable candidates from all diversity groups to support our system of schools and early learning centres in delivering quality education outcomes for the students in our care.
This position involves working with children. Appointment is subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CECG policy.
For further information about the School please visit the website. Information about the CECG can be accessed here.
Position Description
