Leading strategic initiatives to improve social wellbeing outcomes.Implementing change management processes across multiple stakeholders.Collaborating with government agencies to drive policy changes and enhance service delivery.

I lead and work with a committed professional team delivering a range of Learning Support specialist education services to children and young people, and work with early childhood providers and schools to raise progress and achievement as well as to deliver on the communities' aspirations.Key attributes for this role: • The ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, and manage workload and resource issues• Develop strong connections and networks across the Ministry, local education providers, iwi, communities and whānau to achieve educational priorities for the region• Broker support from across the Ministry and other agencies to deliver joined up work programmes tailored to local needs• Experience at influencing and leading innovation, people, programmes, and change• Ability to assess needs, risks, and performance issues and address gaps proactively• Ability to follow through and finish complex or sensitive tasks and issues• Reporting and assessing skills• Ability to use and interpret data including the ability to use information to influence decisions

ensure coordination of school access to the full range of specialist support, according to student and teacher needs;optimise the efficient and consistent use of specialist teachers and other specialist knowledge and skills;ensure there are RTLB service specialists reflecting identified needs of the community including support for Maori and Pacifika students, ASD, Secondary, etc.;ensure a high degree of collaboration with Ministry of Education, Special Education and other agencies;facilitate collegial working relations with all principals and key personnel in the cluster;ensure the cluster is responsive to the community's views;work with RTLB PLs and RTLBs so as to promote: professional standards; continued

• Year 7/8 teacher• Acting HODMy teacher registration status was "subject to confirmation" because I worked in Education Reform in Abu Dhabi for 4 years. An opportunity to teach and apply leadership skills and gain full registration was gladly accepted at Rosehill Intermediate. A supervised programme of induction/ mentored teaching was provided and I gained full registration in 2012.

• On-site teacher training and development to increase the quality of learning and teaching• Providing professional leadership in learning, teaching, curriculum development and classroom practice with a focus on enhancing learning opportunities for all students to experience success• Established and fostered strong functional relationships school wide enhancing communication processes between the school, staff, students and parents• Work collaboratively and in partnership with teachers to re-structure the school and provide whole school development• Assist the Management Advisor in developing a people centred approach to teacher development• Assist with whole school audits focussing on agreed subject area in order to facilitate strategic planning• Work alongside teachers to improve their pedagogical skills (planning, presenting, assessing and evaluating)• Introduce and support the implementation of the new curriculum• Information and data gathering – collect and analyse student data in order to plan effective learning and teaching strategies to deliver both the new curriculum and the Ministry curriculum• Advise teachers on the selection and use of appropriate curriculum resources – encourage and support teachers in producing their own resources• Develop teachers ability to use ICT to enhance and support teaching and learning• Provide coaching and support to teachers and Heads of Department - regularly carry out classroom observations and provide feedback on teaching practices• Development of teachers professional identity and capacity by developing the ability of teachers to evaluate themselves/their peers and produce individual/departmental development plans to support autonomous learners• Through targeted professional development and coaching assist with the development of Heads of Department in agreed subjects to improve departmental organisation and disseminationTeacher advisor, trainer and mentor for IELTS candidates