Principal - Melbourne, Australia - anzuk Education

anzuk Education

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Outstanding leader with exceptional strategic and operational skills.

Excellent communicator who builds community, identity, and wellbeing.
Innovative educator, able to inspire authentic, and contemporary programs.

After nine years of exemplary service and outstanding leadership, Lisa Wilson AO, the Foundation Principal, has announced her retirement.

Consequently, The River Nile School is now in search of a highly experienced and passionate educational leader to the position of Principal, starting in Term 1, 2024.

Applications are warmly invited from

engaging and highly skilled educational leaders who are committed to working with a

trauma-informed, healing orientated practice with

young people from diverse cultural backgrounds, cultivating and strengthening a positive teaching, learning, and working environment for all staff and students.

The Principal position requires:
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An outstanding leader with exceptional strategic and operational skills
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An excellent communicator who builds community, identity, and wellbeing
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An innovative educator, able to inspire relevant, authentic, and contemporary programs
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An exemplifier of continuous improvement and collaboration who builds stakeholder capacity.

School Environment:

The River Nile School (RNS) is a registered, independent, specialist senior-secondary school delivering an Applied Learning curriculum to young women from Humanitarian refugee backgrounds who have disrupted schooling or are struggling to cope with mainstream school.

River Nile is a registered charitable organisation thus allowing full fee relief for all students.

All students who attend RNS have English as an Additional Language (EAL) so developing student levels of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) is a central focus.

RNS offers students the VCE Vocational Major (VM) and the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) with an integrated program with projects negotiated with and developed by students.

It provides a high-challenge, high-support learning environment with a strengths-based approach.

RNS offers small class sizes, and our team work collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for each student with personalised learning, wellbeing and support programs.

As many of our students have experienced complex trauma, we embrace trauma-informed practice to support student wellbeing and regulation and build engagement and learning.

Our team takes a personalised mentoring approach, empowering students to address the complex challenges and trauma in their lives by building respectful relationships which strengthen their progress, success and achievements.

Each student is supported to plan a career pathway specific to their aspirations and goals as they transition from our school.

Based in North Melbourne, our school is in its seventh year. RNS grew out of the River Nile Learning Centre (RNLC) established in 2006 to assist the African refugee community. Since then, we've grown substantially, and our student cohort now comprises young women from many regions.

As a growing school filling a unique gap in the education sector, we are striving to build strong foundations to empower young migrant women to gain the language, life, and work skills to integrate and thrive in the community.

RNS has 100+ students and a strong team of professionals including registered teachers and allied professionals with social/youth work, multicultural engagement, and refugee health expertise.

Our team brings different and overlapping strengths, skills, and experiences to respond holistically to students' educational needs in a respectful and productive learning environment.

Our annual government school income exceeds $4 Million.

Position Summary:

The Principal leads, develops and promotes the academic, wellbeing, professional and humanitarian reputation of the River Nile School in alignment with its strategic direction.

The role has overall responsibility for the professional leadership and management of the River Nile School, ensuring high quality standards in teaching and curriculum design, learning delivery, educational engagement and wellbeing, childcare, business and administration management and compliance.

It is essential for the Principal to have the capability to build and strengthen a positive school culture consistent with the RNS Mission, Values and Strategic Plan.

They will demonstrate an understanding of leadership in the context of a diverse multicultural community alongside the impact of trauma.

Compassion, empathy, and a breadth of experience working in such communities will be required.

As an academic leader and mentor, the Principal must motivate, encourage, and inspire the development of a strong, effective, and efficient teaching team and wellbeing support team that operates ethically and with a clear focus on delivering outcomes for individual students and for the River Nile School as a whole.

They must provide effective, dyn