58257

Closes: 24 September 2025

Classification: School Leader B
Salary: $166,238 - $170,421 plus superannuation
Position No: 58257
Directorate: Education
Advertised (Gazettal date): 10 September 2025
Contact Officer: Jason Holmes on Jason.Holmes@ed.act.edu.au or (02) 6142 2200

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Details: We are looking for a Deputy Principal who values and can demonstrate adaptability, strategic thinking, innovation, and working with a fun-loving crew. Our community is strong, we celebrate individuals every day, and together, we shape a future filled with possibilities.

As part of the Senior Executive, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight, navigating pedagogical waters and charting the course of curriculum excellence through further developing the school culture of meeting individual students at their point of need. To be successful in this complex, high energy high school environment, you will need to be skilled in fostering positive relationships with staff, students, families, and the broader community, and be confident in leading effective teaching and learning solutions within a model of multi-tiered systems of support.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• A minimum of 4 years full time (or equivalent) tertiary study leading to the award of a recognised school teaching qualification.
• Current professional teaching registration with the ACT Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) or eligibility to obtain TQI.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to - Apply for or renew a WWVP registration - Access Canberra

How to Apply: Please submit your curriculum vitae, Statement of Claims based on the five leadership capabilities outlined in the application package, with reference to the Position Description (approximately five pages), and contact details for two referees.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.

Applicants should note that a Joint Selection Committee (JSC) established in accordance with the collective/enterprise agreement provisions will assess all applications for this position.

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Applicants should note that a Joint Selection Committee (JSC) established in accordance with the collective/enterprise agreement provisions will assess all applications for this position.