<p><strong>DEAN: MIDDLE YEARS</strong><br /><strong> St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney</strong><br /><strong> Commencement</strong> Date: Term 1 2023<br /> <strong>Closing Date:</strong> Wednesday, 17 August 2022<br /> <br /><strong> About Sydney Catholic Schools</strong><br /> <br /> Catholic schools have been delivering excellence in education to Sydney school students for 200 years. Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) continues to be a thriving and growing contemporary educational community with over 150 schools, more than 71,000 students, 10,000 staff and a large alumni community.<br /> <br /> <strong>About the College</strong><br /> <br /> Situated in one of the great cities of the world and home to Australia's oldest Cathedral Choir, St Mary's Cathedral College Sydney seeks a strategic, creative and forward-thinking leader to work in partnership with St Mary's Cathedral to drive the next phase of growth at this prestigious Catholic institution.<br /> <br /> <strong>About You</strong><br /> <br /> In the newly created role of Dean of Middle Years, you will be a member of the College leadership team. Partnering with the Dean of the Cathedral, Principal and other Catholic lay leaders, you will be co-responsible for the evangelising mission of the Church within an educational context. You will deliver educational excellence by leading our teaching and non-teaching staff to ensure the best pedagogical practice and professional performance supports learning growth across the middle years of the College community.<br /> <br /><strong> To be considered for this role, you must have experience demonstrating that you can deliver in the following areas:<br /></strong></p> <ul> <li>promoting and implementing Sydney Catholic Schools' mission: 'To know and love Christ through learning'; and the vision: creating 'Thriving Catholic communities through excellent teaching and learning'</li> <li>leading a school-wide culture that is characterised by high performance, continuous improvement, data-informed decision making and a commitment to best practice</li> <li>working with the principal to ensure effective strategic change through implementing a range of improvement strategies</li> <li>ensuring a culture of quality teaching that promotes high expectations for all students, where teachers work collaboratively to link the vision of the future and daily practice</li> <li>leading, implementing and reviewing teaching and learning strategies and programs to develop student knowledge, understanding and skills</li> <li>leading the development of syllabus and curriculum knowledge</li> <li>implementing the performance growth process to ensure high impact teaching practice and enhanced learning outcomes</li> <li>analysing school and network data to establish and evaluate priorities, targets and teaching programs</li> <li>leading a 'network approach' that promotes the reciprocal benefits of school and system partnerships</li> <li>promoting the teachings of the Catholic Church and engagement in the life of a Catholic faith community, as a committed and baptised Catholic.</li> </ul> <p>You will have attained or be pursuing the following:</p> <ul> <li>Postgraduate qualifications in educational leadership, pastoral care and/or equivalent.</li> <li>requirements of <a href="https://sydcatholicschools.nsw.edu.au/policies/accreditation-policy-to-work-teach-and-lead-in-sydney-catholic-schools">(Category E)</a> in the Accreditation Policy to Work Teach and Lead in Sydney Catholic Schools or agree to meet these requirements in your first contract term</li> <li>demonstrate performance at the Highly Accomplished or Lead level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.</li> </ul> <p>SCS offers a generous salary package for school leadership positions and the salaries for SCS leadership roles are available at <a href="https://sydcatholicschools.nsw.edu.au/careers/salary-package">https://sydcatholicschools.nsw.edu.au/careers</a>.<br /> <br /><strong> APPLICATION PROCESS</strong><br /> <br />To apply for this position please <a href="https://cgprod.phris.org.au/psp/CGPRD/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&amp;Action=U&amp;FOCUS=Applicant&amp;SiteId=2&amp;JobOpeningId=2305&amp;PostingSeq=1" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> and follow the prompts. For any internal candidates please apply via your 'Careers tile' in Employee Self Service. To support your application, you will be required to attach<br /> <br /> To complete the application process you will need to attach:</p> <ul> <li>cover letter (addressing the key criteria)</li> <li>resume</li> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11DcL7HWDvglrQwgVLZYjx_nssdH0I9zm/view">Parish priest reference.</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Working With Children Check (WWCC)</strong><br /> This role is classified as child-related work and therefore requires a WWCC clearance prior to commencement of employment.<br /> <br /> <strong>OUR MISSION</strong><br /> <em>To know and love Christ through learning.</em><br /> <br /> <strong>OUR VISION</strong><br /> <em>Thriving Catholic communities through excellent teaching and learning.</em><br /> <br /><strong> OUR VALUES</strong><br /> <em>Truth, empathy, excellence, curiosity, and collaboration</em><br /> </p>