College Profile
Mildura English Language Centre (MELC) is a campus of Mildura Senior College, located in north-west Victoria, approximately 545 kilometres from Melbourne. MELC provides a full-time intensive English language program for newly arrived migrant and refugee students from Prep to Year 10, aged 5 to 17 years.
Selection Criteria
- Educational leadership
- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.
- Financial, managerial and administrative ability
- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.
- Planning, policy and program development and review
- Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.
- An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.
- Leadership of staff and students
- A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
- A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.
- Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.
- An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment
Responsibilities
- The delivery of quality EAL programs to government primary and/or secondary school students eligible for a New Arrivals Program.
- Employment of flexible and adaptive EAL teaching methods to allow students to reach their full potential.
- Provision of a stimulating and culturally sensitive learning environment for New Arrivals students.
- Contribution to the development of a New Arrivals Program Curriculum Framework for the MELC.
- Promotion of the MELC and the New Arrivals Program within the schools and community as required.
- Individualised Transition programs for each student on completion of their new Arrival Program
- Co-ordinate the Cluster School Program in conjunction with the EAL Literacy Support Teacher.
- Maintenance of appropriate EAL records for New Arrival students ensuring completion of assessment and reporting documentation for student learning outcomes that is available to both parents and home schools.
- MELC staff meetings on a regular basis for the purposes of administration, professional development and the review and refinement of the MELC curriculum and policies.
- Compliance with all legislative requirements and government policy, especially OHS and EO
- Participation of staff in the Staff annual opinion surveys, ensuring the focus is on the MELC as a discrete unit.
- Participation in an Annual Performance Review process.
- Coordinate the daily operation of the centre and to prepare reports for strategic planning and reviewing centre practices
Other Information
- Applicants should address the key selection criteria.
- Attaching your letter of introduction, resume and key selection criteria in one document is most helpful.
- Day time phone numbers are vital to make appointments for an interview in the event that you are shortlisted.
- If you have an Employee ID Number, please include it on your application.
- Three (3) Referees are required. Please provide names, contact phone numbers and e-mail addresses (Most recent employer is preferred).
- A copy of your current Victorian Institute of Teaching card will be required if successful.
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