IT and Software Development Teacher - Senior School
Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
Canberra
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Term 1 2018
Job overview
Canberra Grammar School has a world-leading and high-performing Computing and Digital Technologies Department, teaching our students modern, relevant, and cutting-edge technologies through both curricular subjects and co-curricular opportunities, such as our well-known Code Cadets group. A key focus of the Department is providing opportunities for our students to engage in exciting and outwards facing projects – engaging with real-world organisations and technologies and building authentic projects. For more information about our activities, visit CODECADETS.COM.
Do you enjoy designing elegant algorithms and turning them into code? Do you find yourself programming and tinkering with code for fun during your spare time? The School is seeking to appoint an innovative, collaborative, and passionate IT teacher to join the Computing and Digital Technologies Department. The successful candidate will be not only be an effective teacher and communicator, but also highly technically competent towards coding and programming. The ideal candidate will have programming experience in at least Python, Swift, or JavaScript along with HTML and CSS. Experience in algorithm design and computer science fundamentals (such as sorting algorithms, search algorithms, linked lists, hash tables, trees and graphs) would be highly regarded. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Department to continually update the programmes to keep them on the cutting-edge of technology. This position is an excellent opportunity to assume a teaching position at a prestigious school with a world-leading IT programme.
As a teacher, the role-holder is expected to:
- model outstanding teaching practice in and outside the classroom
- be able to teach across a broad age range of the School including for the Australian Curriculum and, where relevant, the Higher School Certificate (experience of teaching the IB is an advantage and willingness to be trained for IB teaching is essential)
- be willing to participate enthusiastically in the School’s pastoral and co-curricular programme
- attend School Chapel services and respect and uphold the School’s Anglican values and ethos, while also respecting people of all backgrounds and faith within the School community
- safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- support the School’s aims and objectives
About Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
- Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
- 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill
- Australian Capital Territory
- 2603
- Australia
About Us
Canberra Grammar School is a leading co-educational independent day and boarding school offering outstanding academic education, co-curricular opportunities and pastoral care to students of all backgrounds and faiths within a community guided by Anglican values.
Our fundamental aspiration is to educate students who are curious, creative, confident and compassionate young citizens of the world.
The School is a vibrant and rewarding workplace with a strong commitment to professional learning and to nurturing excellent conditions in a superb campus environment. It offers highly competitive salary and superannuation, as well as attractive salary packaging arrangements, and a range of staff benefits, including parking, discounted lunches, flu vaccinations, employee assistance programmes, school fee concessions, and generous professional development funding.
For more information about the School, please visit: CGS.ACT.EDU.AU.
Change the World, Teach at CGS
Canberra Grammar School is a vibrant and rewarding place in which to work. It is also a very exciting time at CGS as the School now offers full co-education across all years, from Pre-School to Year 12, with significant growth to our leadership, teaching and support staff.
By joining the CGS team, you will be working alongside exceptionally dedicated, qualified and experienced staff, and engaging daily with bright, motivated and open-hearted students and to enjoy the amenities of life on a beautiful, open school campus in a city that is clear, uncongested, and affords unrivalled access to many of the leading political, cultural and intellectual institutions of Australia. Canberra is an ideal place in which to live and raise a family. It is within striking distance of the mountains for skiing and the coast for surfing; it is an easy drive from Sydney; there are frequent flights to all parts of Australia and the city itself is virtually traffic-free.
Canberra Grammar School is committed to that by aiming at all times to be a professionally stimulating and rewarding employer; one that is committed to innovation, to high-quality professional development, to the constant interchange of ideas and to personal and professional investment in staff who seek always to enhance the quality of education both within and beyond the School.
That aspiration for staff culture is central to the School’s capacity to flourish in all areas of its endeavour and it is reflected in the School’s commitment to recognising and rewarding staff and to supporting a positive, professional, caring and collegial working environment through:
- Remuneration, terms and conditions that generally compare favourably with those in the non-independent school sectors in the ACT
- The initiatives entailed in the School’s strategic plans for professional learning and renewal
- The on-going financial commitment to the Staff Professional Excellence Fund
- The provision of personal support services and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program
- A range of personal benefits associated with employment at the School
- Support for collegial staff organisation and representation; and
- Recognition of contribution and outstanding achievement.
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