Careers
The Application Process
Are you ready to start your career journey with us? You can search and apply now for current opportunities.
Our selection process overview and application tips will help you understand what to expect throughout the recruitment process and enable you to submit your best application.
Written Application
The Interview
Pre Employment Checks
Notification of Outcome
Current Opportunities
Senior Support Officer - Wellbeing
Position Status: Permanent, Full-time
Applications Close: 3pm Tuesday, 28 March 2023
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING WITH US!
- Highly supportive and collaborative team environment
- A sense of belonging with a strong focus on community
- Strong commitment to personal growth and development with exceptional professional development opportunities for staff at all stages of their career
- Meaningful work and making a difference to our inspiring, dedicated and delightful students!
THE OPPORTUNITY:
- Senior level office support role providing executive-level administration and student services to staff, parents and students
- Fast-paced, dynamic and varied role that is both challenging and rewarding
- Exceptional work environment with a strong focus on team and community
- Full-time; 44 weeks per year
- Salary and conditions in accordance with the NSW Catholic Independent Schools (Support Staff - Model B) Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2020
The Senior Support Officer will work with our Wellbeing Team, providing executive level assistance and project/program support to support the successful delivery of wellbeing support services for students at the College. This includes providing administrative support for our Assistant Principal Students and Deans of Junior/Senior School as well as frontline support to our counselling service as a first responder to students with support needs.
ABOUT YOU:
- Experienced office administrator with a strong work ethic and motivation to undertake a varied, challenging and rewarding senior support role.
- With a high level of emotional maturity, you are able to remain calm under pressure and handle sensitive matters with discretion and diplomacy.
- A confident and articulate communicator who can build and maintain professional working relationships with students, parents, staff and a range of external stakeholders.
- Consistently presents a high standard of professionalism and customer service while working efficiently in a busy and sometimes challenging environment.
- Motivated and energetic with the ability to be proactive, flexible and responsive to changing priorities.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with considerable emotional maturity to be able to maintain a calm presence and professionalism under pressure.
- Demonstrated organisational, project and time management skills including the ability to prioritise, exercise initiative and manage competing deadlines.
- Highly developed digital literacy skills with advanced skills in the use of Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams), SEQTA, Pulse and/or other electronic record management and sophisticated client management software.
- Highly developed ability to extract, collate and analyse data, produce sophisticated reports, develop and edit a variety of high-quality professional documents and correspondence.
- Demonstrated ability to work proactively to identify and solve problems, research and apply knowledge and transferable skillsets to enhance systems and practices.
- Demonstrated high level of professionalism with the ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment and diplomacy at all times.
- Flexibility and commitment to the provision of a high standard of customer service, with the ability to contribute to critical tasks or projects outside of normal hours when required.
Child protection legislation requires the successful applicant to supply a valid Working with Children Check.
TO APPLY:
- Download the attached Position Description
- Complete the online application form
- Attach your current CV and covering letter (no more than 2 pages) that addresses the Essential Requirements
Applications close 3pm, Tuesday, 28 March 2023.
Enquiries to the People and Culture Team on (02) 4228 6011.
Maintenance Assistant
Position Status: Permanent, Part-time
Applications Close: Sunday, 2 April 2023
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING WITH US!
- Highly supportive and collaborative team environment
- A sense of belonging with a strong focus on community
- Outstanding work location in Wollongong
- Varied and meaningful work in a workplace where everyone is challenged and supported to be their best
THE OPPORTUNITY:
- Be part of our Facilities and Maintenance team providing general grounds and maintenance assistance
- Part-time; 2-3 days per week
- Salary and conditions in accordance with the NSW Catholic Independent Schools (Support Staff - Model B) Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2020
The Maintenance Assistant will work within our small Facilities & Maintenance team to ensure that the College buildings, grounds and facilities are well maintained, professionally presented and respectfully cared for to provide a safe and exemplary learning environment for our students and staff to learn, work and thrive in.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrated proficiency in undertaking a range of grounds and building maintenance tasks.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact appropriately with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Ability to present professionally while undertaking duties, showing appropriate consideration and respect for staff and students at the College.
- Motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to demonstrate initiative and the capacity to appropriately prioritise tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to work as a positive and collaborative team member.
- Demonstrate pride and commitment to the provision of a high standard of customer service and quality of work.
- Demonstrated commitment to work, health and safety practices with the ability to interpret and follow standard operating procedures.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence (Current MR Licence or willingness/ability to obtain is advantageous)
Child protection legislation requires the successful applicant to supply a valid Working with Children Check.
TO APPLY:
- Download the attached Position Description
- Complete the online application form
- Attach your current CV and covering letter (no more than 2 pages) that addresses the Essential Requirements
Applications close Sunday, 2 April 2023.
Enquiries to the People and Culture Team on (02) 4228 6011.
Casual Teachers
Position Status: Casual
Commencement: Casual, as required
Applications Close: Open
Applications can be submitted at any time for casual teaching opportunities.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING WITH US!
- Highly supportive and collaborative team environment
- A sense of belonging with a strong focus on community
- Strong commitment to personal growth and development with exceptional professional development opportunities for teachers at all stages of their career
- Creating genuine impact and making a difference to our inspiring, dedicated and delightful students!
TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES:
The Teacher provides a contemporary education to students in accordance with the appropriate syllabus and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. This includes the planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Recognised teaching qualification, approved for teaching secondary school (Stages 4-6) with NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accreditation
- Valid Working with Children Check (WWCC)
- Strong knowledge of the NSW curriculum
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the holistic approach to education which challenges the creativity, initiative and ability of each student.
- Demonstrated outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, critical analysis and problemsolving skills with the ability to work collaboratively and respectfully in a team environment.
- Experience with demonstrated high standard of competency and proficiency as a classroom teacher, with the ability to structure lessons that meet the individual physical, social and intellectual development needs of students.
- Understanding of and commitment to the mission and purpose of an all-girl Catholic College embracing the Good Samaritan and Benedictine tradition.
- Strong digital literacy with the ability and willingness to engage with a variety of technologies.
TO APPLY:
Complete the online employment application form and attach:
- Curriculum vitae (CV)
- 1 page covering letter addressing the essential requirements
- Copies of qualifications and proof of accreditation
Enquiries tocareers@stmarys.nsw.edu.au
Be Inspired
Our Vision
St Mary Star of the Sea College educates young women to love life, lead, achieve and care for their world. Our College motto is “I am born for higher things”.
Our Mission
St Mary Star of the Sea College is a leader in all girls contemporary education in a safe, inclusive and globally aware environment. Our students love their school and they are able to thrive and be challenged to achieve their very best whilst all the while impelled to seek justice, peace, equity and ecological conversion.
Our Values
The Benedictine values of love of God, love of learning, hospitality, stewardship and peace are embedded in the life of the College every day and inform our distinctive, faith-filled, optimistic and contemporary educational mission.
Achieving, Leading, Nurturing Culture & Place
Be Connected
People
More than just a school!
Being a part of the St Mary Star the Sea College community means having the opportunity to make a difference! When you join us you will immediately feel a sense of belonging. We are immensely proud of our College community that has been built and nurtured over the past 150 years.
Our staff are proud of the work that they do and are actively involved in all aspects of College life and the lives of our girls.
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Technology
We invest heavily and continuously in technology to support the work of our staff and students to enable their educational and social emotional development in a safe and informed environment. We engage a range of learning platforms and technological solutions that effectively support the innovation and diversity of our teachers work with their students
Networks
We are a proud College of Good Samaritan Education and we cherish the richness and wisdom of our Benedictine spirituality and Good Samaritan charism. We are a member College of Catholic Schools NSW (CSNSW) and the NSW Association of Independent Schools (AIS) and as such, benefit from the collective professional development and learning opportunities accessible through both professional associations. NSW Catholic Employment Relations (CER) provides support for enterprise and employment relations, and we are fortunate to have well established collegial and community connections with the Wollongong Catholic Education Office, as well as Edmund Rice College.
Be Valued
Catholic schools are relational places that commit themselves to a vision of education based on partnership and Christian community, that facilitate a vigorous, energetic collaborative environment.
Join our inclusive community at St Mary Star of the Sea where each person is encouraged to bring their authentic selves to community every day and to strive to be the best version of themselves.
Choose to make a difference.
Benefits and support
- Meaningful work with opportunities to be involved in exciting College community events
- Stunning work location and staff facilities
- Staff social club
- Discounted staff fitness program
- EAP
- Generous leave provisions
- Personal development opportunities
Be Ambitious
Catholic schools exist in a changing, complex, and interdependent world where they are challenged to move beyond traditional responses for education and to engage with new knowledge and practise in innovative and creative ways.
At St Mary Star of the Sea we strive to meet and deliver on the challenge of providing an extensive and diverse curriculum that simultaneously challenges our students to be counter cultural in the expression of their values in relationship with others. Our colleagues are dynamic, driven and empowered to unleash their full potential to enable our girls to be and to achieve the best that they can be.
We nurture our colleagues to grow and thrive through a number of development programs and experiential learning opportunities including:
- Interactive, enjoyable and stimulating professional development days.
- The development of collaborative learning teams.
- Access to extensive range of educational development programs and online courses.
- Internal mentoring and coaching opportunities.
- Access to customized educational leadership programs through our network partners.
- Sponsored study for further education.
Contact
For any general queries regarding the application process or vacancies at St Mary Star of the Sea College, contact our People and Culture team:
Ph: 02 4228 6011
