Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Education Support - Level 1, Range 4
Occupation: Administration
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 1514580
Please provide your resume/CV and selection criteria response in a PDF format.
SC1 Demonstrated capacity to lead an office team, including capacity for directing the work of others.
SC2 Demonstrated knowledge and experience in respect to human resource and financial management records systems.
SC3 Sound knowledge of financial management legal requirements and practices, including the capacity to produce reports and provide advice in respect to those reports.
SC4 High level organizational skills, including the capacity to prioritise work flows.
SC5 High level written and verbal communication skills.
A Business Manager role will usually undertake tasks that impact on the whole school. The role seeks to gain cooperation of other staff members or members of the school community to achieve specific objectives, such as in school administration, finance or human resources.
Direction on targets and goals is provided but the position will have some degree of latitude in determining how they are achieved. This latitude will generally be limited by standard procedures and school policy. Deviation from standard procedures and school policy will require guidance and direction from senior management.
Management of staff to achieve the expected outcomes is a key responsibility. Staff management issues will be resolved with minimal reference to senior management, although guidance will be required in more complex cases. Senior management will be provided with timely reports and advice in matters relating to the school finance, human resources or school administration.
Deliver School Services
Finance
General Administration
Human Resources
Manage School Resources
Support School Council
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
Merri Creek Primary School was established in 1891 and is situated on the banks of the Merri Creek in Fitzroy North, an inner urban Melbourne suburb. Enrolments sit around 440 students. Classes are single year level structures and include Foundation, Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. There is one Year 3/4 composite most years to allow for the differences in required class sizes between the junior and senior school.
The school strategic planning reflects the school community's high expectations for literacy and numeracy learning with a focus on ensuring teacher capacity to differentiate teaching to provide challenge and progress for every student, to embed consistent assessment practices that analyse and monitor the impact of learning to inform teacher practice and directions and establishing visible partnerships with the parent community through digital portfolios, to align with assessment and reporting.
Inquiry learning at Merri Creek Primary School is designed around a well-sequenced, knowledge-focused curriculum centred on the humanities and the sciences. These subject areas are delivered through the careful ordering of this curriculum content so that new information and concepts are built sequentially from year to year. Learning, reasoning, problem solving, and concept formation are learned within the curriculum content domains of history, geography, civics and citizenship, economics, biological, physical, earth, and chemical sciences. Students develop critical thinking and inquiry skills through strong knowledge of these curriculum domains.
Teachers use clear explanations to teach through modelling/guiding practice, through worked examples, and effectively supporting students in learning. By breaking down complex concepts into manageable parts, providing explicit instruction on each component and checking for understanding before gradually releasing responsibility to students, teachers can develop a solid foundation of understanding. Independent student work is carefully placed within a larger instructional sequence.
Merri Creek Primary School strives to provide a student-centred, stimulating learning environment that promotes rigour, curiosity, diversity and actively engages students in their learning through developing their physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
Specialist teachers provide a Language program, Music program (rock bands and musical performances), a Visual Arts program and Library. Merri Creek Primary School students engage in a range of creative pursuits, and we proudly celebrate their talents through displaying their work and conducting music performances at weekly assembly. We have a school arts festival on alternate years.
All class teachers collaborate in their teaching and learning teams to provide Physical Education. The teaching staff share ideas, knowledge, and plan together in professional learning teams focused on team and whole school planning and improvement. Students in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 participate in annual camps, 5 and 6 students participate in inter-school sports, Foundation ¿ Year 5 students participate in swimming lessons annually. An Out of School Hours Music program employs teachers of piano, flute, violin, guitar, drums, voice and recorder to teach students after school in individual or shared lessons.
The school values are CARE: Creativity, Acceptance of diversity and difference, Responsibility and Effort and school rules simply allow everyone to learn and to feel safe at school.
Community
We have a largely educated and professional community and education is greatly valued by parents, carers and students. There are high expectations as to student achievement and wellbeing. Families collaborate for the benefit of all the students, school programs and facilities. Families participate in the daily life of Merri Creek Primary School. These include formal and informal participation through membership of School Council and its sub-committees; working in classroom programs; actively working to improve the physical environment; fundraising and assisting with parent information and education. The high level of parent involvement in the school is greatly valued and encouraged.