Director – Home Education
Job Description
Join us as a Director and play a key role in shaping and driving the strategic direction of the Home Education’s regulatory operations. With a clear vision on supporting families meet home education regulatory requirements, you’ll oversee strategic policy development, engagement with home education community stakeholders, and innovative practice aligned with regulatory performance frameworks. If you’re a strategic leader with a passion for working collaboratively with stakeholders, apply today!
About Us
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About You
As an educational leader, you bring extensive experience in aligning exemplary practice with regulatory standards to ensure children and young people can access a high-quality education. You excel at driving continual improvement by working collaboratively with stakeholders, leveraging technology and applying risk-based strategies to enhance regulatory practice.
With a strong focus on collaboration, you will strengthen educational supports and communication with the home education community to bring an improved educational perspective to support the delivery of a high-quality education. You will have expertise in the development of educational supports, and someone who can leverage connections within the Department to better support and advocate for children who are educated at home.
Your Opportunity
As the Director, you will provide leadership and direction and as part of the leadership team, drive the planning, implementation and evaluation of regulatory practice reforms and initiatives that contribute to achieving the Branch’s strategic objectives
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Providing leadership to ensure effective communication and collaboration with the home education community to support access to a high-quality education for children and young people.
- Developing, implementing and evaluating frameworks, tools, systems and processes to ensure continuous quality improvement in regulatory functions aligned with contemporary approaches to home education, ensuring consistency, fairness and effectiveness in regulatory practice.
- Leading the provision of Registration Services through positive stakeholder relationships, effective management of high risk and complex matters and strategic oversight to the reporting of regulatory outcomes and operations in accordance with legislative requirements, the principles of good administrative decision making and best practice regulation.
- Implementing effective processes for work planning, resource allocation and prioritisation of regulatory effort based on an intelligence and data-driven assessment of risk.
- Driving a culture of effective stakeholder engagement and working with stakeholders to achieve positive relationships reduce regulatory burden and minimise risk.
- Providing direction, technical guidance and leadership to staff, including ensuring that effective processes are in place for team performance assessment and capability development.
- Providing expert and independent analysis and advice to the Minister and Director-General and members of the Executive Leadership Team, including preparation of correspondence, briefings, Cabinet submissions, and policy responses.
- Representing the department at negotiations in a variety of state and national forums and advocating on regulatory issues relating to broader reform objectives
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high-performing team, drive impactful change, and ensure the Branch’s regulatory practices are innovative, efficient, and aligned with best practice strategic priorities.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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