Advertised Vacancy Number: DOE761787
This is a permanent full-time position commencing October 2022
The Role and our Branch
The Statewide Services Professional Capability Division is seeking a highly motivated Principal Consultant - Aboriginal Languages to join the Quality Teaching Branch.
With a focus on building professional capability, the Teaching Quality and Innovation Directorate strengthens support for teaching and learning excellence in every classroom. It develops and implements core system-wide strategies and priorities focused on developing teaching quality and leads the system’s model of profession-led support.
The Principal Consultant - Aboriginal Languages will, in collaboration with the Principal Education Officer – Aboriginal Languages, plan and coordinate ongoing delivery of the Department’s Aboriginal Languages Initiative effectively and within agreed timeframes. The successful applicant will identify and analyse issues relating to the implementation, management and review of the Initiative and determine appropriate solutions. They will also support associated resource development and manage program funding through existing processes to support participants and schools.
We encourage applicants with diverse professional experiences to apply.
Aboriginal languages are the original languages of this country, with each language unique to country and connecting people with country, with each other and to ways of seeing and interpreting the world in the past, the present and the future.
Schools play a vital role in facilitating access to language learning and supporting community language revitalisation. The foundation of Aboriginal Languages teaching and learning programs in schools is local language or languages and cultural knowledge taught by Aboriginal languages teachers, with community support.
Teaching Aboriginal languages in schools supports them to build relationships with their local Aboriginal communities, and to develop place-based culturally responsive teaching and learning programs for primary and secondary school students.
Learning Aboriginal languages develops a strong sense of identity, pride, and self-esteem for all students. It also provides an opportunity to strengthen Aboriginal student wellbeing and engagement and to build respect for Aboriginal histories, cultures, people, knowledges and experiences amongst school staff and students.
Cultural Diversity
The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
Your written application will be assessed against the following Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated extensive knowledge and understanding of the strategic direction of Western Australia’s public education system and contemporary policies, frameworks and issues impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Demonstrated high-level project management skills with a proven ability to plan and coordinate and evaluate culturally responsive initiatives in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated highly developed conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to apply strategic thinking to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrated highly developed communication and interpersonal skills to build mutually respectful relationships and partnerships with Aboriginal communities, organisations and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated highly developed written communication skills, including extensive experience in the preparation of correspondence, reports, ministerials, briefing notes and policy.
- Demonstrated highly developed strategic planning skills with a proven ability to coordinate, deliver and evaluate strategic outcomes.
For a full outline of the role responsibilities and selection criteria, please refer to the JDF.
It is recommended that you consider all information contained in the advertisement and any other related information before applying for the vacancy.
Further job-related information
Please contact Michelle Kriening, Manager - Quality Teaching for further information about this employment opportunity by emailing Michelle.Kriening@education.wa.edu.au or telephoning (08) 6206 2066.
Application Instructions
All applications are submitted online. Select “Apply for Job”, at either the top or bottom of this screen and follow all instructions. It is recommended you have relevant documents completed and ready to attach with your online application. Please allow enough time to complete this process as applications must be received prior to the closing date and time.
Your application should include:
- A three (3) page statement addressing the selection criteria listed above, in context of the role and business needs of the branch
- A CV of up to three (3) pages outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position
- The contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current line manager.
After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please phone (08) 9264 4127.
If you are having difficulty submitting your online application, please phone (08) 9264 8666 for assistance.
Eligibility and Training Requirements
Employees will be required to:
- provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia for the term of the vacancy
- obtain a current Department of Education Criminal Record Clearance before commencing employment
- complete the Department’s Aboriginal Cultural Appreciation course
- obtain or hold a current Working with Children Check
- complete
- the Department’s induction program within three months of commencement;
- training specific to this role required by Department policy; and
- the Department’s training in Accountability and Ethical Decision-Making within six months of appointment.
The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.
Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Tuesday, 09 August 2022
Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions at, or after, 4:30pm will not be accepted.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE
PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED
This selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy. Applicants assessed as suitable during this selection process may be considered for other similar vacancies that occur throughout our division for up to 12 months following this initial appointment. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position.