Program Coordinator - Culturally Responsive Secondary Regional and Remote Teaching Team

This is a 24-month fixed-term full-time (1.0FTE) position commencing Term 1, 2027 with possible extension and/or permanency.

Are you a dynamic, innovative, and culturally responsive leader?

The Role

School Of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) is seeking to appoint a Program Coordinator – Culturally Responsive Secondary Regional and Remote Teaching Team. In this role, you will ideally engage with students, staff, partner schools and community to support the development of culturally responsive programs and learning pathways. The role supports school-wide planning and capability development, with a strong focus on strengthening culturally responsive pedagogies and student wellbeing and engagement for secondary school students.

As Program Coordinator, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team of secondary teachers who are working predominantly with lower secondary Aboriginal students in regional and remote schools. As an instructional leader, with qualifications and experience in a secondary context, you will ideally bring a strategic and culturally responsive lens to your teaching and to the ongoing collaborative process of developing and implementing instructional models that are responsive to place and context. You would lead professional learning and build staff capability through coaching, classroom observation and the performance management process. Your approach should be informed by a deep understanding of what effective teachers and leaders believe, know and do to create the conditions for student success.

The role ideally requires strong interpersonal and relationship-…