Early Career Teacher Campaign (Job Vacancy)

Location: Southern NSW & ACT (various locations)

Closing date: 11.55pm, Sunday 28 April 2024

Start date: Negotiable

Salary: $76,574 - $85,000 per annum (plus superannuation)

Employment term: Permanent

Our Early Career Teacher Campaign offers Graduate and Preservice Teachers a streamlined pathway into a secure permanent teaching position within our network of 56 schools across the ACT and NSW, as well as nine early learning centres in the ACT. Kick start your career by applying now!

CECG values the fresh and contemporary ideas that early career teachers bring, and purposefully strives to attract and support them in our schools. We understand your first steps as a teacher can be both exciting and daunting. Our first-year teachers receive genuine support from a dedicated mentor, and support from school and system, to build capability and confidence. Our aim is to ensure you feel welcome and supported from day one and to help you progress through your career path.

We're seeking passionate, dynamic and motivated graduate and preservice teachers to join the team at Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education with permanent teaching opportunities available in early learning, primary, secondary schools.

Who are we?

Catholic Education, Archdiocese Canberra & Goulburn (CECG) is an education provider in the ACT and southern NSW region with location settings that include city, rural, coastal, and remote. The Archdiocese spans 88,000 square kilometres from Pambula in the south to Goulburn and Crookwell in the north and Lake Cargelligo in the west.

Leading Education System

CECG is among Australia’s leading education systems for teacher professional learning and development. This has been achieved through the development and implementation of Catalyst, an evidence-based professional learning program based on the Science of Learning and the Science of Reading Principles. The program has been developed in collaboration with leading experts such as Dr Lorraine Hammond, Jenny Donovan, Natalie Wexler, Michael Roberts, and Toni Hatten-Roberts, amongst others, and provides teachers with a suite of curated resources to support development, growth, and excellence in teaching and learning.

Catholic schools foster community and camaraderie; CECG is committed to workforce diversity and creating inclusive workplaces. We welcome applications from suitable candidates from all diversity groups in our system of schools and early learning centres in the delivery of quality education outcomes for the students in our care.

What is in it for you?

When You Join CECG As An Early Career Teacher, You Receive Ongoing Support As You Transition From Preservice To The Proficient Career Stage Through

• A world-class professional development program;
• Access to a suite of online classroom material and templates;
• A two-year early careers induction program;
• A designated mentor and additional release time for meetings to inform and enhance your professional practice, development and general well-being;
• Classroom observations and feedback;
• Collegial planning opportunities and programming support;
• Access to experts – we partner with world-renowned educators to assist in improving learning and teaching across our system;
• Support to gain full registration with TQI and/or proficient accreditation with NESA;
• 24 weeks of paid maternity or adoption leave;
• Up to 14 weeks of paid partner/non-primary carer leave;
• Access to salary packaging

Eligibility

• Be eligible to be accredited with NESA or be assessed as suitable for a Permit to Teach with TQI (CECG will support you in the Permit to Teach process)
• Valid working rights within Australia

Selection Criteria

• Commitment to further learning and openness to developing teaching skills;
• Ability to integrate the use of information and communication technologies to both engage students in their learning and prepare them for an increasingly technological society;
• Developing knowledge of classroom practices and organisational skills that create supportive and safe environments for all students, including meeting a variety of learning needs;
• Developing knowledge of the Australian Curriculum and/or NSW Curriculum with the ability to organise, select and design content for effective teaching and learning;
• Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills to engage positively with colleagues and students; and
• Currently completing the final one or two years of tertiary qualifications to become a teacher.

Application Process

Applicants will be required to submit a current resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria outlined above.

Further information about the role and Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn is available on the website.

If you have any questions about the program, contact Sarah Casey, People & Culture Officer, on 6218 0007 or via email at recruitment@cg.catholic.edu.au.