Position Information

Googong High School will open to year 7 and 8 students in 2027. Situated in the Queanbeyan Network on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, the school serves a rapidly growing, highly engaged and aspirational community, with the potential for the school to expand to cater for approximately 2000 students.

The successful applicant will form part of our foundation Humanities faculty. This faculty will encompass English, HSIE, CAPA, library and have carriage of some of our whole school curriculum projects. Whilst this role is for teaching music, successful applicants will take a key role in being part of larger school initiatives.

The founding Music Teacher at Googong High School will have the opportunity to establish enriching performance programs both within the curriculum and through extra-curricular opportunities. Having a passion for a holistic creative arts program and vision for what arts could look like in a rapidly growing school will be essential to the role.

Googong High School is being designed around an exciting and innovative curriculum structure that is founded in Learning Sciences. As a new school with the opportunity to establish a dynamic and contemporary culture, the school is building a learning design that reflects a broad research base in effective and modern teaching practices. This includes a whole school skills framework (RECONI) and Teacher Librarians are well placed to build on these learning skills both through direct teaching and supporting other staff to implement these skills in their own subjects.

In the absence of a school plan, interested applicants are encouraged to visit the school’s website at https://googong-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/ and look carefully at the information regarding the school’s innovative approach to curriculum.

Specific Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach music, with a deep understanding and passion for the subject and capacity to implement and grow an innovative performance culture within a new school.

2. Strong teaching skills with a particular focus in developing students as holistic learners

3. Personal, interpersonal and communication skills, with the proven ability to build relationships with external providers to strengthen a school’s curriculum offerings.

Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

Special Notes

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior professional experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2-week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.