Mathematics Faculty Lead

RGIT Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Matrix Education in Australia is seeking a Mathematics Faculty Lead to own health, performance and reputation across campuses. You will build a team of Team Leads, teachers, and senior tutors, and maintain authority over curriculum standards and academic direction.

You will lead recruitment partnerships, coach educators, and ensure exam materials and assessments meet high Matrix quality standards while driving student success and retention.

Qualifications

• Deep subject-matter expertise with credible teaching background
• Experience developing educator teams and handling performance conversations
• Ability to interpret student analytics and SEQ data

Responsibilities

• Set pedagogical standards across campuses for consistent delivery
• Develop scalable coaching model for senior teachers and team leads
• Partner with People and Culture on talent acquisition and alumni engagement
• Maintain a culture with high casual teacher performance and retention
• Teach at least three hours a week to stay connected to students
• Monitor Course Health analytics to catch disengaged cohorts early
• Sign off on major curriculum architecture and exam materials
• Drive strategic academic direction and represent the faculty to other teams

Skills

Leadership experience

Educational analytics

Teacher coaching

Curriculum alignment

Education

Tertiary qualification in Education

HSC/VCE teaching track record

Job description

Matrix Education is Australia's leading and fastest-growing tuition college for ambitious students from Year 3 to Year 12. For over 25 years, we've helped tens of thousands of students achieve their academic goals through remarkable teaching, fanatical customer support, and exceptional outcomes.

We're now in the middle of something exciting. Matrix is expanding nationally, growing our online platform Matrix+, and re-thinking what new techniques and technologies can unlock within our already world-class learning programs. The Academic team you will be joining is the heart and soul of Matrix. You will be in the engine room, leading our amazing teachers and tutors to deliver exceptional instruction at scale to some of Australia’s brightest and most ambitious students.

Position Overview

As Matrix continues to grow, we need faculty leaders who can grow with us, holding to the high standards of academic performance and rigour that is our trademark. The Mathematics Faculty Lead owns the health, performance and reputation of Mathematics at Matrix, and builds a team that can deliver that consistently at scale.

We're looking for a leader who builds capable people and sets a clear bar, rather than someone who tries to solve every problem themselves. Someone who earns credibility by teaching, observing, coaching and being visible on campus, not just managing from a distance.

You’ll own course health, academic performance and deliver exceptional student outcomes for Mathematics across all relevant Matrix campuses. You’ll achieve scale by working through Math Team Leads who will report to you as your faculty grows to need them. You'll set curriculum standards in partnership with our dedicated Curriculum Development team, sign off on our academic resources, own strategic academic direction, and represent the faculty to Marketing, Customer Experience and the Head of Academic.

You lead a full academic team from day one, made up of Team Leads (depending on size of faculty), Matrix class Teachers, and Senior Tutors. You'll keep teaching too, at least three hours a week, to stay connected to the classroom and credible with the people you're leading.

The role necessarily includes some weekend work, because that's when much of our teaching occurs. You will interact a lot with teachers, students and occasionally parents for academic escalations. Ultimately this is an outcome-driven leadership role and what is required of you will be up to you to decide in consultation with your manager and may vary over time based on where your faculty is at. You don't need to write curriculum yourself (unless you have a desire and aptitude to); our Curriculum Development team handles production. What you need is the academic authority to set direction, sign-off on what's produced, and know when something doesn't meet the Matrix quality bar or fit the needs of our ambitious students.

Key responsibilities & outcomes

1. Teaching quality and team capability

• Set clear pedagogical standards across all campuses for consistent, high-quality delivery
• Build a scalable coaching model that develops your senior teachers and Team Lead(s) and expands their leadership capacity
• Partner with People and Culture on talent acquisition and pipeline strategy for casual teachers and tutors and maintain strong alumni engagement
• Maintain a culture that keeps casual teacher performance, satisfaction and retention high
• Teach at least three hours a week to stay connected to the student experience

2. Student outcomes and experience

• Achieve strong learning gains and formal exam performance (HSC/VCE, OC, Selective) across all campuses
• Monitor Course Health analytics to catch disengaged cohorts early and deploy support
• Analyse SEQ (Student Experience Questionnaire) trends and direct immediate coaching adjustments where needed
• Manage complex academic escalations in a way that keeps parents' trust and students engaged
• Set the strategic vision for the subject, ensuring full alignment with NESA/VCAA requirements
• Sign-off on major curriculum architecture, assessment models and exam materials
• Give Curriculum Development team clear, useful feedback that improves publishing output
• Design assignments and mock exams that anticipate real exam trends

4. Faculty strategy and growth

• Plan and execute structural changes to our academic products as needed to stay best-in-class. This could include in-term adjustments all the way to multi-term/year changes to our programs to better fit our student needs and market demand. You will have a lot of opportunity, but also a lot of responsibility for the long-term direction of your faculty
• Turn Course Health data into strategic initiatives that keep the faculty growing, with a particular focus on strong student retention term-to-term
• Assist in preparing executive presentations and impact estimates of those initiatives and associated budget management
• Establish and maintain Matrix's academic authority in your faculty by partnering with Marketing and Customer Experience on academic messaging and workshops that support enrollment targets
• Track national and state syllabus changes so Matrix stays ahead in the subject, as well as stay connected to the needs of the market and what the competitive landscape looks like in your faculty

Experience and qualifications

• Deep subject-matter expertise ideally with a strong HSC or VCE teaching track record and credibility among educators
• Tertiary qualification in Education, or a discipline related to your faculty
• Demonstrated experience developing teams, ideally teams of educators, including handling tough performance conversations
• Comfortable interpreting student analytics, retention trends and SEQ data to make real decisions

Scalable leadership and academic authority

• This role only works if you can lead through others, not around them. We're looking for someone who sets a standard, stepping in when it genuinely matters.
• A track record of building capability in others rather than doing the work yourself
• Confidence handling difficult conversations, whether that's a struggling teacher or an anxious parent
• Comfort making final calls on curriculum and assessment without needing to write it yourself
• Genuine energy for coaching others

Skills and attributes

• Passion for education and the impact it has on young people
• Sets standards and builds capable teams rather than solving every problem personally
• Earns respect through visible teaching and observation, not just formal authority
• Understands how academic quality drives retention, reputation and growth
• High ownership and sound judgement under ambiguity