College Principal - Principal Level P5 - Dubbo College

NSW Department of Education; Dubbo; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Department of Education seeks a College Principal (P5) to provide visionary and strategic leadership across three Dubbo College campuses. You will guide campus principals, drive improvement plans, and align initiatives with the NSW Plan for Public Education.

As a key member of the College Management Group, you will allocate staffing across campuses, lead staff and students towards excellence, and foster strong relationships with the community to support student success.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and transform opportunities in a diverse, multi-campus setting.
• Strong collaboration with campus principals and CMG to drive improvement across Years 7–12.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary and strategic leadership across a multi-campus college.
• Allocate teaching and executive staff across classes and campuses based on needs and preferences.
• Lead college-wide initiatives and improvement plans in alignment with NSW Plan for Public Education.
• Collaborate with parents, stakeholders and the community to support student success.

Skills

Transformational leadership

Strategic thinking

Community engagement

Whole-school leadership

Education

Full approval to teach

Job description

The College Principal provides visionary and strategic leadership across a multi-campus college, offering guidance and support to campus principals. In this pivotal role, the college principal fosters a positive, inclusive, and high-achieving learning environment, ensuring consistent educational standards and driving college-wide initiatives and improvement plans. The College Principal inspires and leads educators and students towards excellence while upholding relevant policies and regulations. Collaboration across campuses, with parents, stakeholders, and the broader community is essential to support student success and ongoing multi-campus improvement, in alignment with the NSW Plan for Public Education. As a key member of the College Management Group (CMG), the College Principal will work closely with campus principals to allocate teaching and executive staff across classes and campuses, considering individual preferences, skills, experience, teaching areas, and student needs. This leadership position is classified at the P5 salary level. Dubbo College consists of three campuses, Dubbo College Delroy Campus 7-10, Dubbo College South Campus 7-10 and Dubbo College Senior Campus. This is the only secondary structure for Dubbo and is critical to the local area. The senior campus has growing enrolments and is recognised for its academic excellence modelling explicit teaching and HPGE as stand out strengths, additionally they have 10 support classes. The two junior campuses are focused on literacy and numeracy alongside innovation and transformational change in a diverse cultural and economic community. All campuses work with a single Parents and Citizens Association and are focussed on delivering a one school model that comprehensively educates all students. Across the three campuses, Dubbo College has significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student enrolments, with approximately 30% to 55% of students identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander at each campus.

Approval to teach

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

• Proven ability to create transformational opportunities in a culturally diverse environment with a wide range of complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and provide opportunities to ensure equitable staff access to teaching opportunities, resources and professional development, across multiple sites in a complex 7- 12 environment through an environment of transparency and integrity.
• Proven ability to build community confidence in Public Education and increase student enrolments with an emphasis on connection with community
• Exceptional skills and capability in transforming the college pathways programs from Years 7 to 12 by leveraging innovation and curiosity in collaboration with our primary partners.

1. High level educational leadership with the skills to lead and manage a complex public school focused on the delivery of high quality education
2. Ability to lead and manage rigorous and inclusive whole school teaching and learning programs
3. High level communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build positive relationships and engage all levels of the school and educational community
4. Ability to lead and manage the development and performance of staff to improve teaching and learning
5. Ability to plan systems and manage resources effectively and equitably to enhance teaching and learning
6. Capacity to lead staff in implementing the Department's Aboriginal education policy and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people

Classification Structure for Principals

The principal classification for this school is College Principal, Level 5 for 2027.

The Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2024 details the new principal classification structure based on complexity of schools which commenced in 2016. Please refer to the information regarding the classification structure for principals The classification and remuneration of our school principals is based on school complexity, as measured through each school’s RAM allocation. As part of the ongoing application of the new structure a review of thresholds and outcomes will occur on an annual basis. Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.

We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, neurodiverse people and people with disability.

If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above.

For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here .

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