Permanent Part time role available (o.6 FTE across 4 days per week)

Full time considered if other High School and Senior College subjects can be taught

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a community of passionate, motivated and experienced individuals. Our staff foster inclusivity, expertise and dedication to our students, education, and creating a dynamitic and an effective team environment.

As a valued staff member at Orana, you will contribute to the community as a member of an educationally focused team that ignites a life-long passion for learning within our students through academic, practical and creative experiences. You will be supported to grow and develop your own teaching through ongoing professional learning activities as well as mentoring through Orana’s College of Teachers.

The successful applicants will be enthusiastic and committed with Japanese language teaching experience. The role will mainly teach High School and Senior College language students but may also be required to teach some of our primary students. Experience teaching other subjects is an advantage and is necessary to accommodate a full-time teaching load.

We can provide exciting mentorship opportunities for new graduates.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

The successful candidate will require:

excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire young people

the skills and attitude to work collaboratively in a dynamic team setting

a willingness to implement, support and promote the School’s Steiner ethos

a strong commitment to student wellbeing

a willingness to be involved in the wider life of the School; and

understanding of the Australian Curriculum.

You must also:

hold a teaching qualification

hold ACT TQI registration or Permit to Teach

hold a current ACT WwVP registration

be eligible to work in Australia.

We welcome and encourage all candidates with teaching qualifications and experience to apply. While Steiner experience or qualifications are not essential, a willingness to learn is required. Support and guidance will be provided to successful candidates without a Steiner background.

Salary and conditions of employment are in accordance with the new Independent Schools (Teachers) Cooperative Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2025.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive, incremental salary progression

Dedicated professional learning days (student-free) each year

38 weeks of face-to-face teaching per year

The right to disconnect outside of work hours for a better work/life balance

Salary Sacrificing

Free onsite parking

Discounted school fees for eligible employees.

We are committed to maintaining a physically and psychosocially safe working environment for all staff, students and visitors to our school.

TO APPLY:

Applications must be submitted via SEEK 'Quick Apply' and must include:

a cover letter, clearly outlining how you meet the applicant requirements and why you want to work at Orana. If applying for a full-time position, please also tell us which subject areas (in addition to Japanese) you can teach.

your current CV detailing your qualifications and relevant experience;

evidence of ACT TQI registration or permit to teach (or evidence demonstrating eligibility); and

names and contact details of at least two professional referees (one of which must be your current / most recent direct supervisor).

Closing date: Applications will be reviewed as they are received. We will accept applications up until Sunday, 27 April 2025 unless the position is filled sooner.

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Orana Steiner School is a vibrant, growing co-educational Early Childhood to Year 12 school of around 550 students. Set within a natural landscape and on a magnificent 16-hectare property in Weston, an inner south suburb of Canberra, Orana seeks to provide a high-quality education for its students, based on the Steiner Education tradition. In its 40-year history, Orana Steiner School has developed an enviable reputation for its standards and achievements, and its warm, caring culture. Orana proudly employs applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds.

In Primary School, we value individual difference. We believe in self-responsibility and in the values needed to become connected and contributing citizens. We seek to support our students to be capable of personal endeavour and community involvement. The education we provide develops creative and imaginative thinking and aims to instill in our students a love of learning, a sense of wonder, an appreciation of beauty and a connection to the world.

The High School teaching program assists students in taking increasing responsibility for their own learning and to develop their own ideals, values and sense of purpose for adult life. The High School encourages students to become independent thinkers; use their own observations, research, and draw conclusions and judgements; form relationships with specialist teachers; address questions and problems in specialist subjects, and to develop a wide range of expertise as well as an active, articulate and well-rounded thinking capacity.

The Senior College curriculum is comprehensive and carefully designed to balance a Steiner approach with the contemporary requirements stipulated by the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies. This broad, integrated approach to the Senior College curriculum emphasises the development of well-rounded students through equal exposure to Arts and Sciences, together with a range of electives. Orana’s tradition of extensive pastoral care for its students continues into the Senior College.

Orana Steiner School is committed to the safety and wellbeing of its students in accordance with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and child safety legislation. The successful candidates must hold (or be eligible to obtain and maintain) a Working with Vulnerable People (WwVP) registration.

Please visit our website to find out more: https://oranaschool.com