The BUSY School is seeking an experienced and passionateAssistant Principalto join our Cleveland campus. This is an opportunity to play a key leadership role in a purpose-driven school environment, supporting young people who have disengaged from mainstream education to re-engage, complete their schooling, and build meaningful futures.
About The BUSY School
The BUSY School is part of The BUSY Group, a not-for-profit organisation presenting nearly 50 years as a community partner providing employment services, vocational education and training, apprenticeships, mentoring, Inclusive Employment Support, and allied health services.
We are a growing independent Special Assistance School with 10 campuses across Queensland and New Zealand, providing an alternative program for Year 11 and 12 students who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.
Each campus provides a supportive, safe learning environment and unique education model combining:
Individualised education and wellbeing support
Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Real-world work experience opportunities
School-based apprenticeships and traineeships
Career pathway planning and employment connections
Our team works alongside students to provide wrap around support that helps them complete their secondary schooling, achieve their goals and transition successfully into employment, further training or higher education.
Job Description
About this Opportunity
The Assistant Principal, Cleveland Campus plays a key leadership role in supporting the Campus Principal with the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the campus.
Working collaboratively with students, families, staff, Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), trainers and employers, the Assistant Principal helps drive student engagement, attendance, course completion and successful pathway outcomes.
Focused on fostering a positive, inclusive and student-centred environment, the role supports the wellbeing, pastoral and behavioural needs of students while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across the campus. In partnership with the Campus Principal, the Assistant Principal develops and implements strategies that maximise student engagement, participation and success. This is a permanent full-time position.
Key Focus Areas
Promoting, developing and protecting the vision, mission and core values of The BUSY Schools.
Collaborating with the Campus Principal to create a positive culture of high expectations, ensuring effective, evidence-informed teaching practices that enable student engagement, improvement, achievement and wellbeing to thrive.
Managing and communicating day to day events through calendars and notices.
Organising supervisions when staff are absent to ensure they provide a suitable program for students, including rostering oneself for supervisions before engaging a relief teacher. Organise and supervise relief teachers.
Collaborating with the Curriculum Coordinator to provide written reports of student progress each semester.
Why Join The BUSY School?
Career growth opportunities across our expanding school network
Dedicated funding for professional development and leadership development
Up to $18,550 in tax-effective salary packaging benefits
6 weeks annual leave
12.5% superannuation
Fitness Passport and employee discount program
Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing initiatives
Desired Skills and Experience
About You
To be successful, you will have:
Current teacher registration (or eligibility to obtain registration).
Demonstrated leadership experience in a secondary school setting.
A passion for supporting young people to overcome barriers and achieve success.
Strong understanding of teaching, learning, curriculum and student achievement practices.
Experience leading, mentoring and developing staff.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Strong organisational, planning and problem-solving abilities.
A student-centred and trauma-informed approach, with a belief in the potential of every young person.
Next steps...
If you're passionate about empowering young people through education and want to play a key leadership role in a purpose-driven school environment, we'd love to hear from you
This role will actively commence recruitment from the date of advertisement. The closing date of this ad is dependent on the appointment of the role.
The BUSY Group is an organisation that prioritises the safeguarding of children and all vulnerable people by actively adopting strategies that embed a culture of zero tolerance for abuse of any kind. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening including criminal history and relevant working with children checks.
The BUSY Group is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from First Nations People, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
