Specialist Teacher Music Instrumental

Specialist Teacher Music Instrumental

Permanent Part-Time for 2016 - 0.8 fte

Essential Criteria

·  Support of Catholic ethos

·  An understanding of contemporary learning theory and practices, and demonstrated record of success in contemporary learning

·  Capacity to communicate effectively with leadership teams and teachers

·  Capacity to implement pedagogical change

·  Proven capacity to manage work load, and work management, initiative and high degree of interactive and interpersonal skills.

·  Successful experience as a teacher in Primary and/or Secondary Schools.

·  Appropriate graduate qualifications and experience

·  Deep content knowledge and proven pedagogical content knowledge in music

·  Demonstrated expertise and experience in arts practice with explicit links to either literacy or numeracy

·  Capacity to implement pedagogical change through collaboration with teachers in their own working environments

·  Proven capacity to produce art work of professional standard

·  Capacity and willingness to work beyond the timetabled school day

·  Capacity and willingness to contribute to hybrid/cross art practical projects involving other professional artists, students, teachers and the wider community

·  Capacity and willingness to lead, design and deliver leading practice arts projects in holiday and/or school term times

·  have high degree of competence in stage management, technical production and performance logistics;

·  have excellent knowledge of the K-12 music syllabi in NSW (music production software expertise highly desirable);

·  have a current NSW drivers license and the capacity to travel independently between school learning venues within the one day if necessary

·  have proven experience as a leader of brass and woodwind training ensembles together with appropriate tertiary qualifications or equivalent;

·  have extensive knowledge of the concert band repertoire;

·  have extensive knowledge of the mainstream brass and woodwind instrumental and solo repertoire;

·  have the ability to develop capacity in generalist primary classroom teachers to lead student learning in music;

·  have the ability to work with specialist music secondary teachers to lead student learning in instrumental music;

**Please note that there may be the possibility of an additional 0.2 fte employment in one of our schools.

Salary and Conditions:

·  Work during school terms

·  Salary offered for this position is in accordance with the Teachers (Archdiocese of Sydney, Dioceses of Broken Bay and Parramatta) Enterprise Agreement

Referees

Applicants must provide names and contact details, including email address, of three (3) referees, one of whom must be a current employer, from whom confidential reports may be obtained.

Applications:

Written applications, including a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae addressing the criteria, are to be sent to the HR Officer, Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta, Locked Bag 4, North Parramatta NSW 1750 or by email to by 5 February 2016.

General Application Form
(to be attached with Resume and other Documents)

Position Applied for

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Address

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How did you find out about this position?

Please complete and return with you application and a full resume to:

Human Resources Officer

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta

Locked Bag 4 North Parramatta NSW 1750

Email:

Privacy requirements – employment collection notice

Available at: http://www.parra.catholic.edu.au/policy-central

1. When you apply for this position you will provide CEDP (through our schools, Catholic Early Learning Centres

(CELCs), Catholic Out of School Hours Care services (COSHCs) and offices) with personal information.

2. If you provide us with personal information, for example your name and address or information contained on your resume, we will collect the information in order to assess your application. We may keep this information on file if your application is unsuccessful in case another position becomes available.

3. Our Privacy- Statement sets out how you may access and seek correction of your personal information that we hold about you if you are unsuccessful for the position. However, there may be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others. Our Privacy - Statement also sets out how you may complain about a breach of privacy and how we will deal with such a complaint. Our Privacy- Statement is available at: http://www.parra.catholic.edu.aulprivacy.

4. We may disclose this kind of information to the following types of organisations: the Catholic Education Commission of NSW and the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations. We will also disclose this information with your consent or as required or authorised by law.

5. We are required to conduct a criminal record check and collect information regarding whether you are or have been the subject of an Apprehended Violence Order and certain criminal offences under Child Protection laws. We may also elect to collect personal information about you in accordance with these laws.

6. We may use service providers who provide certain services to us and our staff and students including data storage and contemporary online teaching tools. We may provide your personal information to such service providers in connection with the provision of these services. Our service providers may store, or process, data outside Australia, including in the United States, Singapore, Ireland and possibly other countries. We endeavour to find where these providers store their data and update this collection notice as such information becomes available to us. In addition, our email service provider may store and process emails in the United States or in any other country utilised by Google.

7. If you provide us with the personal information of others, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to us and why, that they can access that information if they wish and that we do not usually disclose the information to third parties.

8. You may obtain further information from the following:

• For our schools: the school principal

• For our CELCs: the CELC director

• For our COSHCs: the COSHC supervisor

• For our offices: Privacy Officer:

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta

Locked Bag 4

North Parramatta NSW 1750

T: 9840 5600.

How to Apply

Applicant information

1.  Address your formal letter of application to:

Mr Gregory B. Whitby - Executive Director of Schools

2.  Supply resume, including Academic Record and employment details

3.  Supply response to each essential position requirement criterion

4.  Supply details of three (3) referees (numbers and email address), including current employer, from whom confidential reports may be obtained.

Please note referees will only be contacted if preferred applicant.

5.  All application materials to be received by close of business on the due date

6.  Send all application materials to:

Human Resources Officer

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta

Locked Bag 4 North Parramatta NSW 1750

7.  Those who are applying by email please email:

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) invites appropriately qualified and experienced applicants who are committed to the ethos of Catholic Schools to apply for advertised positions.

CEDP is committed to the principles of merit selection ie selecting the best person for the job and to the core values of the system vision statement, ‘to be open, inclusive and just’.

To assist in selecting the right person based on skills, knowledge and experience, it is important that your application provides all relevant details. Please consider the following information when preparing your application.

Please note: this information is to be read in conjunction with specific documents that apply to every advertised position. They can be found on our website www.parra.catholic.edu.au or by calling the contact person named in the advertisement.

PREPARING YOUR APPLICATION

A selection committee decides who is to be interviewed based on the information that you present in your application.

It is very important that your application is clear and concise, and indicates how your knowledge, skills, experience and relevant work history (paid or unpaid) support your application.

So when applying for a position always include:

1.  a completed application form,

2.  a brief resume detailing your employment history, education and qualifications, and

3.  details of how you meet the individual essential and desirable criteria as stated in the “Position Criteria” document. For example:

Essential Criteria:

Demonstrated ability to deal with staff at all levels of the organisation.

Response:

In my current role, I not only deal with peers providing policy and procedural advice, I also provide financial information and advice to senior staff within my Division, including the General Manager and Director.

LODGING YOUR APPLICATION

The advertisement will state where to forward your written or electronic application, and the date by which it is to be received.

Your application will be acknowledged by email as soon as it is received.

SHORTLISTING

Approximately one week after the closing date a selection panel of a least three members will shortlist the applications, inviting for interview the applicants who best meet all the selection criteria.

Applicants who aren’t invited for interview will receive an email notifying them that they are unsuccessful.

INTERVIEW

If you are being invited for interview you will receive a phone call advising you of the time and location. Interview questions are based on the selection criteria and the key accountabilities so be prepared to give examples of your work experience, skills and knowledge, and how these relate to the position you are applying for.

REFEREES

After the interviews are conducted referees will be contacted on the applicant(s) the panel deems most meritorious, so include at least three work referees – ideally from your current employer or supervisor, or the most recent ones.

DECISION

Following the referee checks the selection panel will make a final recommendation on whom to appoint based on the merit of the written application, the performance at interview and the referees’ comments. This is forwarded to the Executive Director of Schools for approval.

Once approved, the successful applicant will be telephoned and a verbal offer made, with a written Letter of Appointment to follow. Unsuccessful applicants are notified by email.

CHILD PROTECTION

Successful applicant(s) will be subject to the requirements of current NSW child protection legislation. For further information on the legislation visit the website www.newcheck.kids.nsw.gov.au . Specific Parramatta Catholic Education requirements will be advised at interview.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION

DIOCESE OF PARRAMATTA

ROLE DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE
Specialist Teacher- Music Instrumental / CURRENT POSITION HOLDER
SERVICE AREA
System Learning / CLASSIFICATION
REPORTS TO
Director System Learning
Team Leader- Captivate / DATE LAST UPDATED

CONTEXT

The Specialist Teacher- Music works within System Learning, in the Captivate Program, working with students and teachers in learning spaces, Primary and Secondary.

System Learning supports learning and teaching in schools in partnership with school leadership teams on the goals of formation, literacy and/or numeracy.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

This position supports the system strategic intent of improving learning outcomes for all students and promoting a professional and rewarding working life for teachers.

Key accountabilities are:

·  Contribution to the leadership, design and delivery of student learning opportunities through ‘hub school’ programs, professional arts practices, modelling professional arts practice and linking students to contemporary artists

·  Contribution to the leadership, design and delivery of professional learning-particularly with a focus on building teacher capacity to engage students in deep learning through the arts.

·  Implementation of System Learning priorities and initiatives-particularly in the alignment of the Captivate program and deep learning classroom based activities/experiences/rich and open tasks and learning scaffolds in the arts.

·  Application of specialist arts pedagogical and discipline knowledge to enrich, deepen and transfer learning in the arts (including media) to student learning outcomes in formation, literacy and numeracy

·  Foster and develop deep learning/challenging pedagogy action research project partnerships in the arts

·  Lead instrumental string, brass or woodwind Captivate programs and collaborate with school leadership teams, CAPA staff and classroom teachers to further enhance and develop creative and performing arts instrumental music programs and practices in and beyond the classroom

The broad focus of the role is to support the Captivate Music team to build leading practice in school communities in the delivery of instrumental music learning through timetabled class groups and extra-curricular ensembles so as to ensure that all our students:

·  have access to instrumental music learning regardless of their geographic position in the diocese;

·  with the requisite talent/skill are encouraged and extended in their specialist instrumental musical development;

·  develop a greater understanding of music in the liturgy and the historic place of music in worship

In addition the Captivate Music team will:

·  oversee the development of all beginner string, brass and woodwind extra-curricular CAPTIVATE music programs & ensembles;

·  coordinate the selection of identified students for inclusion in training instrumental ensembles;

·  liaise with school leadership and school (inc music) staff in coordinating the co-construction of these ensembles;

·  work directly with schools in the implementation of a primary school music literacy program;

·  liaise with school music staff in fostering leading practice for stage 3 and 4 music learning outcomes;

Key team accountabilities are:

·  ensure best practice methods and techniques are utilised in all instrumental classrooms and ensembles;

·  in consultation with the Team Leader, Performing Arts Initiatives, build learning pathways for students between primary and secondary schools in the diocese and develop and implement inclusive music & music literacy programs in increasing numbers of primary schools;

·  ensure repertoire selection represents a balance of genres which enables students to develop a wide range of musical experience and performance practice while being sympathetic to Catholic Identity in the selection of secular works.