Principal Education Officer

This is a permanent full-time position commencing ASAP

Statewide Services provides the services and supports required by schools to enable student achievement, with a focus on those students and schools that need it most. It encompasses both school and system-facing service delivery. While it primarily exists to support schools, it also has an important system-facing role supporting strategy and policy development. 

Disability and Inclusion, Statewide Services, is committed to improving outcomes for students with disability through the implementation of strategic projects reflecting contemporary practice, and Department, state and national initiatives and priorities. Disability and Inclusion consultants work with schools to support students with disability by:

• building the capacity of schools to support students with disability and complex needs
• implementing key disability reforms such as initiatives to address recommendations from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
• developing strategies, professional learning and resources to support schools to strengthen outcomes for students with disability and complex needs
• streamlining schools access to supports, including the allocative mechanism used by schools to access funding for students with disability. 

Disability and Inclusion leads and manages the planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of projects and their outcomes, and provides advice to senior personnel within the Directorate and the Department of Education

The Role

As a Principal Education Officer, you will wor…