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Executive Roles and Responsibilities:
District Director District Directors provide a quality assurance function for the Department by reviewing the performance of schools. They work with the school administrators to ensure that schools respond to strategic priorities and policies. This position represents the Department of Education and Training in regional forums and promotes the development of public schooling and the services that public schools provide Goldfields communities. District Directors line manage the principals in the district and establish performance management agreements with principals. They also facilitate the provision of support services to schools including the provision of professional development for school principals. Area Director (Ngaanyatjarra Lands) The Area Director provides overall coordination of the delivery of schooling in the eleven schooled in the Ngaanyatjarra Education Area. Under the direction of the district director, the Area Director reviews the performance of these schools and liaises with the Area Director (Community) and the Ngaanyatjarra Council regarding the provision of educational services to the communities served by the Council. The Area Director provides educational leadership for schools in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and ensures that schools respond appropriately to Department policies and initiatives in addition to ensuring that they are responsive to the educational aspirations of their community. The Area Director undertakes performance management of principals for schools in the Ngaanyatjarra Education Area and coordinates the support services that schools in the Area have access to. District Operations Manager The Operations Manager provides professional, administrative and operational support to the District Directors. The Operations Manager is an office bearer on committees and working groups within the District; coordinates briefing documents, reports for the Directors and coordinates responses as directed. This position is often the first point of contact for schools and parents within the district particularly in the handling of enquiries, concerns and complaints. The Operations Manager assists schools and parents and provides advice on the application of the Education Act and the Regularly Framework. Principal Consultant The Principal Consultant provides professional support to principals across the district including the provision of advice on school development and school review processes. The Principal Consultant also coordinates leadership development and provides mentoring and professional growth opportunities for staff moving to school leadership positions or more senior school leadership positions. The Principal Consultant is also responsible for
the development of strategies to raise the standards of school leadership
in the district and for development of mechanisms to access school
leadership development opportunities by principals, deputy principals
and aspirants to those positions. Finance and Administration Manager The Finance and Administration Manager provides a full financial management service to the Directors and the School Service Cluster, as well as specialist advice and support to schools in the district. The Finance and Administration Manager is responsible for the accurate dissemination of policy and procedural guidelines, and facilitates professional development processes for school administrators in financial management, contract management, property services and non-teaching staff appointment. The Finance and Administration Manager develops succession planning processes for all corporate services positions. Curriculum Manager The Curriculum Manager is responsible for coordinating support to all schools in the district in implementing the Curriculum Framework and the Outcomes and Standards Framework. The position manages, monitors and reviews curriculum service requirements and delivery of service agreements within the district. The Curriculum Manager provides advice and support on curriculum issues and systemic initiatives and communicates best practice and innovative curriculum strategies in order to ensure accountability and quality assurance for curriculum within the district. The Curriculum Manager provides educational leadership within the District Education Office and schools to enable enhanced quality support and advisory service to schools in the district on curriculum improvement program initiatives; and provides strategic advice on the implementation of system best practice in curriculum implementation and curriculum policy within the district and its schools in relation to the Curriculum Framework and Outcomes and Standards Framework. Identification, development and delivery of professional development for District Education Office and school staff is coordinated by the Curriculum Improvement Program Manager who also performance manages district-based curriculum personnel. Student Services Manager The Student Services Manager provides leadership and strategic support in the provision of Student Services programs in the district. The Manager is responsible for managing the implementation of student service programs within the district. This responsibility includes ensuring quality of service provision and delivery and monitoring the quality of student service programs to ensure consistency with relevant standards and accountability frameworks. The Manager is responsible for reporting on the effectiveness of system and district programs, initiatives and reforms in student services across the District. The Manager manages budget and resource allocation for the student services program, liaises with other government agencies to implement inter-agency protocols and projects and responds to critical incidents within recognized frameworks and processes. Aboriginal Education Manager The Aboriginal Education Manager, as a member of an interdisciplinary district leadership team, has responsibility for the provision of advice and support to School communities and the District Director on matters relating to the education of Aboriginal children. The Aboriginal Education Manager is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of programs (in particular the implementation of the Aboriginal Education Operation Plan) designed to support Aboriginal students achieve comparable educational outcomes. The Aboriginal Education manager provides advice, on leadership and quality support to schools and the District Office to assist with the implementation of Department of Education and Training policies and culturally inclusive strategies that reflect Aboriginal needs linked to Creating the Vision, the Department of Education and Training’s plan for Aboriginal Education. The Aboriginal Education manager is responsible for the development and delivery of Professional Development, including mentoring for District Eduction Staff, schools staff and Aboriginal Education Staff and also performance manages district based Aboriginal Education personnel. Additionally the Aboriginal Education Manager promotes the Department of Education and Training’s ethos and purpose and provides advice to all areas of the Goldfields education sector in responding to inquiries from community members and parents concerning its Aboriginal Education policies and operations. |