Being a teacher
in Australia
shouldn't be this hard.

Teacher Passport brings together everything you need to navigate your teaching career, from your first placement to wherever your career takes you.

The Teacher Passport platform — jobs, curriculum and accreditation tools in one place

Becoming a teacher shouldn't require a research degree just to understand the paperwork.

But between placements, pay scales, accreditation timelines, and an acronym soup that would make a bureaucrat blush (NAPLAN, LANTITE, NCCD — just for starters), most aspiring and early-career teachers piece together answers from a dozen different sources, most of them incomplete.

And that's before you factor in that every state runs its own processes, and every sector (government, Catholic, independent) operates under different rules. What's true in Queensland isn't true in Victoria. What applies to a government teacher doesn't apply to a Catholic school on the same street.

Teacher Passport exists because that complexity is a solvable problem.

Jobs across all three sectors in one search. Pay calculators that reflect your actual state and sector. Accreditation guides that don't assume you already know what the acronyms mean. PD tracking so you're not scrambling at renewal time. And plain-language explanations of what casual relief actually looks like before you commit to it.

Practical information, in one place, written for teachers at every stage of their career.

From the founder
Jesse Whelan, founder of Teacher Passport

At some point in school, most of us had a teacher who changed something for us.

A subject clicked, or someone saw something in us we hadn't seen ourselves. A lot of people decide to become teachers because of that moment.

Then they try to actually enter the profession — and they hit a wall of acronyms, portals, and sector rules that nobody prepared them for.

I hit that wall in my first year of my Masters of Teaching. I was trying to find casual relief work in NSW. Simple enough, I thought. I ended up with fourteen browser tabs open across the government jobs portal, eleven Catholic diocese websites, half a dozen independent school sites, SEEK, and LinkedIn — and I still couldn't filter by subject, role, or location across all of them. I wasn't doing anything wrong. The system is just genuinely this fragmented.

What struck me wasn't just the inconvenience. It was that this was the entry point to a profession that asks an enormous amount of the people who choose it. You graduate with content knowledge and classroom skills and almost no practical information about pay, accreditation, sector differences, or how to actually build a career. Universities teach you to teach. Nobody teaches you the rest.

So I started building something that could. It began as a job aggregator — listings from government, Catholic, and independent schools in one search, filterable by role, subject, and location. That part alone saved people hours. But the more I talked to teachers and pre-service teachers, the clearer it became that the job board was only one piece of what was missing.

Pay scales vary across sectors and between states in ways that compound over a career. Accreditation has deadlines that catch people off guard (NESA doesn't send reminders the way you'd hope). Professional development needs tracking somewhere that isn't eTAMS. And the policy documents that govern all of this exist, but they're written for compliance officers, not for a second-year Masters student trying to plan their first year in the workforce.

Teacher Passport is my attempt to fix that. Not a recruitment agency. Not a generic job board. A platform built for the Australian teaching profession, from the first day of your degree to wherever you decide to take it.

— Jesse Whelan
Founder, Teacher Passport
What we do

Two sides, one platform.

For teachers and school staff

Your career,
in one place

Job listings across government, Catholic, and independent schools. Pay calculators. Accreditation guides. Professional development tracking mapped to the Australian Teaching Standards.

Whatever stage you're at, Teacher Passport has something useful for you right now.

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Find teachers
who are looking

A growing database of qualified, verified candidates across Australia. Post listings, review profiles, and reach teachers who are actively looking for roles and those who are open to the right opportunity.

Built for schools that want to hire well, not just fill a gap.

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