Position Information
Northern Beaches Secondary College (NBSC) Mackellar Girls Campus is a successful girls' secondary school with
an enrolment of 1025 students. The school sets high expectations for student learning, behaviour and school values.
While academic excellence is highly valued and supported, the school encourages its students to take part in a
broad range of learning activities including cultural, physical and social to challenge and develop students in a safe
and happy environment. The school creates and stimulates a learning environment where students are encouraged
to achieve their personal best and are keen to learn.
NBSC Mackellar Girls Campus is one of five campuses in the Northern Beaches Secondary College, which provides
our students with opportunities to access a wide range of enrichment and curriculum choices, including a
comprehensive range of academically challenging HSC subjects and access to a range of TAFE courses.
The school population comprises girls from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with 27% from a
language background other than English, predominantly Chinese, Tibetan, German, Italian and Spanish. The
campus' Higher School Certificate results are exemplary with an 17% success rate for Band 6 attainment. This
academic excellence is supported by rigorous teaching and learning programs, wellbeing programs and a
comprehensive co-curricular program.
NBSC Mackellar Girls Campus' culture of students aspiring and striving to achieve their personal best is supported
by the vision of aiming to develop independent, resourceful and tolerant young women, equipped with the personal,
social, academic and technological skills necessary in a changing world.
Selection Criteria
1. Demonstrated educational leadership in driving quality teaching and learning across the school, including capacity to lead the Quality Teaching Team to lead differentiated and evidence based practices that meet the needs of all learners, including high potential and gifted students.
2. Proven ability to develop and lead authentic student leadership initiatives that promote cultural inclusion, student voice, responsibility, and agency in shaping a positive school culture.
3. Demonstrated ability to work as a dynamic and collaborative member of the executive team to develop and lead whole school initiatives and drive the implementation of the school’s strategic directions, with a strong focus on improving outcomes for all students.
General Selection Criteria
Conditions
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
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