This is a senior leadership role requiring active involvement in a Sunday Catholic Eucharistic community, as well as a commitment to life-long and life-wide growth as a leader in the Catholic Church. This leader is called to demonstrate a commitment to witnessing and living out our Catholic beliefs, rituals and values with committed action.

This is a full time (1.0FTE) permanent teaching appointment within the College. The APRIM component is offered in accordance with the SA Catholic Schools Enterprise Agreement and the APRIM Policy and Implementation Procedures.

The APRIM will:

• Promote the mission of the Catholic Church and actively engages in its ministry;
• Promote the identity and mission of the school as a Catholic Dialogue School with collegial strategic discernment and planning;
• Assist the school to express its Catholic faith in contemporary and accessible ways;
• Contribute to the development of all learning areas and the whole curriculum with a contemporary Catholic understanding of the human person, education and mission;
• Foster and demonstrates quality practice in teaching and learning particularly in the religious domain through a range of strategies, including the APRIM’s formal and informal teaching involvement;
• Contribute to the creation of a safe, healthy and interdependent school community; and
• Foster an open, harmonious and spiritually enriched staff culture.

The APRIM enhances the Catholic identity of the school. The APRIM’s leadership is animated by a deep and reflective faith in Jesus Christ that is expressed in, and nourished by, the Catholic Eucharistic community to which the APRIM belongs. As the key designated religious leader in the school, the APRIM is publicly committed to the ministry of evangelisation in “bringing the Good News to all strata of humanity.” Catholic school communities and their leaders are called to open up and share Catholic faith effectively and joyfully so that the Good News proclaimed by Jesus can be broken open for all students, staff and families in meaningful and effective ways. To this end, the Catholic identity of a school community is enhanced as the school community:

• engages in a faith that seeks understanding, and which is interpretive;
• embraces respectful dialogue between the many voices in the pluralist culture and Catholic faith;
• seeks and re-imagines new expressions of being Catholic as a consequence of this dialogue and the contemporary contexts and realities of the community.

Your application should include your Cover letter; APRIM Application form; Parish Priest reference form, Criteria Statement and the Applicant Declaration form

An Information package in relation to this role may be obtained from:

https://www.tenison.catholic.edu.au/our-college/employment.

Your application should be addressed to Mr David Mezinec, Tenison Woods College, PO Box 965, Mount Gambier 5290 or emailed to [email protected].