Deputy Principal | Y Schools Queensland

Y Schools Queensland are recruiting a Deputy Principal on a Permanent Full-Time basis to join our team based in Fortitude Valley

As a Deputy Principal with Y Schools Queensland, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight across a group of campuses within Y Schools Queensland. Reporting to the Executive Principal, this role leads and supports Heads of School in delivering operational excellence, ensuring high-quality education, wellbeing, and pathways outcomes across all sites in the region.

What will my time look like?

Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Provides strategic leadership across multiple campuses in the region, ensuring alignment and consistency, rather than managing daily campus operations.
• Contribute to strategic planning discussions with the principal, providing campus-level insights to inform system-wide decision-making

Leadership of Heads of School

• Line manages and coach Heads of School to ensure operational excellence and educational impact.
• Support Heads of School in workforce planning, recruitment approvals, and succession planning.

School Performance and Improvement

• Monitor data, identify trends, and provide strategic guidance to Heads of School to address performance priorities

Workforce Capability and Development

• Drive implementation of professional learning strategies, leadership pipelines, and talent development plans.
• Co-lead succession planning with Executive Principal and support talent identification across campuses

Compliance, Systems and Processes

• Oversee campus-level operational compliance, including NCCD, enrolment audits, and school reviews.
• Ensure campus systems align with school policy, regulatory standards, and the THRIVE model.

Community and Stakeholder Engagement

• Support Heads of School in maintaining strong community and parent partnerships.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Champion fidelity to the THRIVE model and support staff to innovate within that framework.
• Promote reflective practice and continuous improvement in all areas of school operations.

Am I a good match?

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Education
• Postgraduate qualification in Educational Leadership (desirable) 
• Significant experience leading in a multi-campus or complex school setting 
• Deep understanding of trauma-informed, inclusive, and flexible education 
• Demonstrated understanding of compliance frameworks, and funding models relevant to Special Assistance Schools
• Experience in negotiating with Community Groups. 
• Proven ability to lead teams through change, improvement and growth 
• Experience in developing staff capability and leading performance conversations 
• Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder engagement skills 
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and analytical skills and the ability to use those to influence the educational agenda for disengaged young people. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage effectively human and physical resources to deliver high quality organisational outcomes. 

Here’s what on offer

• Enjoy up to $15,900 per year to be salary packaged tax-free for everyday living expenses and up to $2,650 per year for entertainment benefits, as part of a non-for-profit organisation
• Join a supportive, inclusive and passionate team in an organisation making a difference.
• We invest in multi-disciplinary teams and work well together to support the students and each other, while working differently and thinking beyond traditional methods.
• Non-term time for all school roles!

• Free YMCA gym membership which includes our fitness classes
• Employee Benefits Program
• Discounts for all Y OSHC Services and Day Care Facilities
• Discounted banking, loan rates and private health insurance

More about the role and Y Schools!

At Y Schools Queensland we have a vision where our young people leave school empowered to be independent, courageous and resilient to achieve lifelong wellbeing. 

Our mission is that Y Schools Queensland is where hope meets possibility, where everyone is seen, heard, and belongs. Our agile and responsive approach to education gives students not just knowledge, it empowers students to overcome challenges and embrace life-changing opportunities. At Y Schools Queensland, wellbeing is personal, pathways are unique, and every step leads toward a brighter future!

Central to realising this vision is our Thrive Model, a signature strength of our schools that guides everything we do.  Embedded in connection, care and capability, it shapes our approach to wellbeing, learning and belonging.

We are an inclusive workplace and welcome people from all backgrounds to apply. We all belong at the Y!

At the Y, we are committed to empowering all children and young people to feel safe and be safe. As a Child Safe organisation, all of our candidates who don’t have an exemption, must have or obtain a working with children check. 

To learn more about our screening processes, click here to view our Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy: https://ymca.org.au/about-us/safeguarding-children-young-people/safeguardingresources

Applicants are advised that it is an offence for a person disqualified or suspended from holding a blue card to commence or continue in regulated, child-related employment.