Principal Consultant

Please be advised as of Thursday, 28 May at 1:20pm the closing date has been amended.

This is a permanent full-time position commencing ASAP

The Department of Education’s strategic directions outline the commitment for every child, from Kindergarten to Year 12 to have access to high quality education underpinned by excellence in teaching and quality leadership. This is an education that meets the needs of the learner, preparing them for future success.

The Reform and Strategic Services group leads major education reforms and strategic initiatives to strengthen public education. It oversees system-level governance, disability reform, and change management for key projects, while driving innovation to embed best practice across schools. The division also manages partnerships, communications and election commitments, ensuring the Department remains future-focused and responsive to emerging priorities.

The Role

As a Principal Consultant in Reform and Strategic Services, your role is to provide high-level strategic advice and professional support to the Deputy Director General and the Reform and Strategic Services executive team to drive the effective development, implementation and coordination of projects, programs and initiatives, aligned to the Department’s strategic priorities. This includes designing developing and monitoring the delivery of project, programs and initiatives, initiated by the Reform and Strategic Services group, to meet current and emerging needs, ensuring cross-divisional collaboration, significant cross-agency coordination and collaboration and reporting on strategic outcomes.

In this role, you will undertake research and analysis of statewide policies and priorities impacting public education, organisational policies, procedures and guidelines, prepare briefing papers, speeches, correspondence, support documents, project budgets and confidential reports. You will also consult and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders in a culturally responsive and context specific manner to achieve strategic objectives.

Professional Benefits

We are conveniently located in East Perth and our employees enjoy a range of benefits which include:

• 12% employer contributed superannuation.
• Flexible working arrangements are genuinely considered to create healthy work life balance including; working from home or remote, flexible working hours and part-time arrangements.
• Generous leave entitlements including annual, personal, long service and parental leave.
• Professional development opportunities and study leave/assistance.
• Access to salary packaging (in accordance with relevant industrial instruments).
• Enjoy easy access to public transport with the Claisebrook train station just a 5-minute walk away or, take advantage of the free Yellow Cat bus service that stops outside our building entrance. Additionally, various CPP parking locations are within walking distance.

Want to know more? Full details of the role, selection criteria and training requirements are listed in the attached Job Description Form (JDF).

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Fiona Hunt, Deputy Director General, Reform and Strategic Services on (08) 9264 0150 or by emailing fiona.hunt@education.wa.edu.au