Primary responsibilities include:Leadership and Advice• Collaborate with the Board to set & execute business strategy.• Drive operational improvement, effectiveness and a change agenda.• Inspire, lead,motivate and manage the senior executive team and all AITSL staff.• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of AITSL to ensure a smooth functioning and high impact organisation.• Provide organisational leadership by ensuring AITSL’ssenior executive team and staff are fully engaged and able to perform to their potential.• Provide advice and leadership in developing collaborations and partnerships which support the work of AITSL; monitoring all relevant policy and practice at a national and international levelCommunication and Relationships• Represent and promote AITSL to stakeholders, presenting AITSL’s position accurately and appropriately.• Foster and develop strong relationships with key stakeholder groups and through AITSL staff.• Foster and develop strong working relationships with all Board members to assist in fulfilling governance responsibilities.• Assure a work environment that recruits, retains and supports the performance of high quality staff.Strategic Planning, Project and Resource Management• Challenge the status quo, identify commercial opportunities, develop business strategy, and successfully launch new ventures and products that support the strategic objectives of the Institute.• Commercially astute with excellent judgement, bringing to the table visionary thinking and the capacity for thought leadership.• Foster program quality and stability through development and implementation of fit-for-purpose standards, controls and procedures;with regular evaluations and reviews.• Model AITSL’s values

*Strategic, system leadership to raise student outcomes and achieve High Performance for more than 820k students in 2200 New South Wales government schools.*Drive system-wide quality assurance processes necessary for the distribution of $9.3b resources to more than 2200 schools.*Lead the implementation of professional learning for all 110k school staff, including the system wide, targeted professional learning for all newly appointed principals and school Executive and administrative staff.*Design effective evidence sets to meet and influence the New South Wales Education Standards Authority to obtain registration for the NSW government school system.*Lead processes to identify and utilise high quality teachers, and enable up to 80k government school teachers to meet relevant accreditation requirements.

Key achievements:• Provided "turnaround" statewide leadership and strategic direction for the completion and implementation of the Learning Management Business Reform Program including the configuration, testing and implementation of a suite of applications designed to transform the operating environment of 2200 New South Wales Government schools, and ensure outcomes are best practice, on time, within budget and supported the delivery of high quality educational programs to students in schools across NSW.• Led the program of work to design and configure $8.5b Human Resources and Payroll solutions for all 2200 New South Wales Government schools and over a hundred Corporate sites.• Led the development and management of strategic implementation plans, project plans, business cases and funding proposals and program governance models.• Drove change in departmental culture and practice through the implementation of strategies, systems and processes that were forward focused and responsive to educational, social and technological developments.• Established and maintained effective program management systems, policies and guidelines, including adopting appropriate methodologies for measuring, registering, monitoring and reporting on individual projects and managers’ performance.• Developed and managed key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes from the program. • Provided high level strategic policy and operational advice to senior management of the NSW Department of Education, Minister and Government in relation to all aspects of the Learning Management and Business Reform Program.

Key accountabilities:• Provide high level strategic leadership to the Department of Education in the delivery of high quality early learning, primary and secondary education across more than 2,200 schools in New South Wales. • Drive change in the provision of public education by rethinking teaching and learning using technology and providing direct support to schools for future focused learning. Establish the Futures Unit to drive innovative practice in NSW public schools. • Provide state wide leadership and strategic direction to school education through the provision of innovative and responsive policy and program initiatives in early learning and primary education, secondary education and specialist programs. • Lead the provision of high level, strategic support and expert advice on curriculum planning, assessment and reporting, the professional learning associated with the implementation of all Key Learning Areas and targeted support for specialist programs. • Formulate, implement and lead initiatives and reforms to achieve positive change in early learning, primary and secondary education to better meet the needs of students in the framework of current government policies and community expectations. • Lead the provision of advice to ensure the implementation of curriculum, including new syllabuses incorporating the Australian Curriculum, meets the needs of staff and students Preschool to Year 12 in NSW public schools. • Liaise and work in partnership with other government agencies, private providers, business sector and the broader community to enhance transition pre and post school through early learning initiatives, vocational education and pathways to the further education, tertiary and employment sectors.NB Following merit selection into this role, I continued secondment to work for the NSW Minister for Education. I was subsequently selected for a three-year temporary assignment as Executive Director, Learning Management and Business Reform.

Key achievements:• Provided timely, accurate and specialist school education policy advice to the Minister for Education, combining expertise gained at school, field and state level of the public school system.• Led stakeholder engagement for all public school education matters. Provided advice and guidance to the department and Minister’s staff on establishing procedures to ensure initiatives were successfully implemented.• Engaged the Premier’s Office, various Minister's offices, Department of Premier and Cabinet and NSW Treasury on key educational reforms to build support for initiatives and minimize barriers to implementation.

1. Director, Strategic Coordination: responsible for collaborating with the Deputy Director General Schools to successfully influence the coordination of major departmental, system-wide initiatives, successfully providing strong input from a school operational lens.2. Acting General Manager, Learning and Development - Key Responsibilities: *$156m budget, 320 staff. *System wide role directly impacting 2200 schools to meet significant state government, federal government and Department of Education requirements.Key Achievements:• Identified for this role: to lead the development and delivery of strategic statewide policy in all areas related to Educational Measurement, Professional Learning and Leadership Development, Strategic Initiatives, Vocational Education in Schools, and Curriculum.• Department lead to the NSW sector wide Treasury Enhancement Bid to successfully enable resources to flow such that the NSW Minister for Education could be advised to introduce the Australian Curriculum.

1. School Education Director: 2007 – 2008Key Achievements: Successfully implemented all facets of school support, guidance and line management for 34 Secondary, Special and Primary schools and their principals. 2. Relieving Chief Education Officer (School Improvement): 2006Key Achievements: Led 80 colleague principals to focus on school improvement, data analyses, student outcomes based planning, and continual growth focused staff development.3. Principal of 3 Government Schools: 1994 – 2005Key Achievements: Identified early in my career for leadership roles. Successfully led three schools and their communities to focus on student and staff needs, wellbeing and growth; community participation in education programs; and utilize research demonstrating teacher impact on student learning.4. Various School Executive and Teaching Positions: 1988 - 1994