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Head of Department - Teaching and Learning - Redlynch State College

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Work
Not stated
Employment
Temporary
Level
Director
Function
Education
Pay
A$145.3K – A$148K a year
Posted
5 days ago

About the role

About Us

Redlynch State College is a Prep to Year 12 college comprising of two campuses.

Prep to Year 6 students attend our junior campus, working with experienced staff in modern air-conditioned facilities, providing strong foundations in literacy and numeracy in a secure and supportive environment.

Our senior campus hosts the junior secondary (year seven to nine) and senior secondary phase (year ten to twelve) of learning, with experience staff and state of the art facilities supporting a curriculum that leads to a successful transition for all students to further education, training or employment upon graduating in Year 12.

About the Role

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

  • Curriculum and instructional leadership
  • Lead the implementation of the Australian Curriculum, assessment and reporting requirements across the Primary Campus.
  • Lead collaborative planning to align teaching, assessment and moderation with year-level achievement standards.
  • Embed consistent, high-impact teaching practices aligned with campus improvement priorities.
  • Student achievement and data-informed teaching
  • Lead academic progress reviews using classroom assessment, reading assessments and student work samples to identify learning needs and monitor growth.
  • Support teachers to use data to plan targeted teaching, differentiation, intervention and extension.
  • Lead assessment and moderation processes to strengthen consistency of teacher judgement and accurate reporting of student achievement.
  • Reading implementation and improvement
  • Lead the implementation and monitoring of the Primary Campus reading improvement agenda.
  • Strengthen evidence-informed reading instruction through explicit teaching, consistent pedagogical practices and targeted professional learning.
  • Work with teachers and leaders to evaluate the impact of reading instruction and respond to student learning needs.
  • Teacher capability and collaborative leadership
  • Build teacher capability through coaching, modelling, observation, feedback and professional learning.
  • Lead purposeful collaboration to strengthen curriculum knowledge and classroom practice.
  • Establish clear expectations, monitor agreed actions and evaluate their impact on student progress and achievement.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

How to apply

Please submit a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history); and

  • A 2-page response to the 'How you will be assessed' section of 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.

Source

Posted by Education on their own hiring page, smartjobs.qld.gov.au. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 03:39 UTC; the original is the reference.

Contains information from SmartJobs, © State of Queensland, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)

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