Overview

Salary: $82,000 – $119,000 pa. + super
Permanent, full-time position

The Role
The Education Outdoors Program facilitates experiential learning opportunities for students from Early Learning to Year 12, providing a range of outdoor and environmental activities with an underlying focus on environmental awareness, sustainable living practices, effective teamwork, and personal development.

As a valuable contributor within the highly collaborative Education Outdoors Team, responsibilities of this role include program planning, preparation, and educational delivery. Supporting the delivery of a diverse range of outdoor adventure activities, this hands-on role also provides direct activity instruction and supervision, working across all outdoor education programs.

Key Selection Criteria:

  1. Teaching and Learning: Proven ability as an outstanding teacher, with demonstrated passion for inspiring, guiding and supporting young and adolescent children in realising their potential. Proficient in a range of instructional strategies and pedagogical practices, knowledge of inquiry-based learning advantageous.
  2. Outdoor Education: Demonstrated experience incorporating all facets of outdoor and environmental education, preferrable including adventure activity instruction. Ability to establish a positive and inclusive learning environments that promote character development, with demonstrated skills in managing student behaviour to foster a respectful and collaborative culture.
  3. Safey and Risk Management: Proficient understanding of the regulatory requirements underpinning education delivered outdoors, with highly developed judgement and risk management skills to support the safe and effective delivery of programs.
  4. Collaboration and Teamwork: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with colleagues, parents, and the wider school community. Demonstrated ability to foster a strong sense of teamwork in the delivery of program objectives.
  5. Agility and Organisation: Demonstrated agility, with well-developed organizational skills and proven ability to adapt within dynamic environments. Able to manage complex logistical arrangements in real time.
  6. Safeguarding Children: A demonstrated commitment to actively contribute to the College’s safeguarding culture for children and young people, including an understanding of the College’s policies in relation to Child Safety.

Full details including a copy of the Position Description are available from our website employment page: https://www.soc.tas.edu.au/employment

Applications addressing the Selection Criteria can be submitted via our APPLY ONLINE form by the closing date of Monday, 6 May 2024.

 

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