Executive Director

Job No: 87177
Location: Milton, Brisbane

  • Executive leadership position providing guidance to 26 schools and 63 early childhood services across Queensland
  • Highly attractive salary, commensurate with experience 
  • Huge range of benefits including free parking and fully maintained vehicle, salary sacrificing and membership to professional associations.

About the Organisation

Lutheran Education Queensland (LEQ) is the system authority and secretariat supporting and overseeing the 26 schools and 63 Early Childhood Services belonging to the Lutheran Church in Queensland. Those schools and services are found right across Queensland, providing Christ-centred education and care of excellence to children and students in their communities.

All of the LEQ schools are co-educational and aim to be both accessible and affordable. They have a diverse student population with children of all faiths and denominations within their population.

About the Opportunity

Lutheran Education Queensland (LEQ) now has a rare opportunity for an Executive Director to join their team at Milton, Brisbane. This is a full-time position, acting under the authority of the Council for Lutheran Education Queensland (CLEQ).

As the Executive Officer for the Schools Department for the Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District, the Executive Director provides leadership, vision and expertise to achieve agreed goals for educational excellence in a rapidly changing environment.  As a visionary leader, spokesperson and advocate for Lutheran Schools and Services, key responsibilities include strategic alliances and stakeholder liaison, professional development, continuous improvement and effective management and governance. 

Some of the specific duties and responsibilities of this position include:

  • Developing key strategic alliances and networks with Church, Government, Peak Bodies and other key Community Groups/Representatives;
  • Ensuring all Queensland Lutheran Schools and Services serve the Church and the Community through the provision of a quality Christ-centred Education;
  • Developing LEQ as a high performing System of Schools
  • Providing leadership in the strengthening of Governance across LEQ School and Services; and
  • Maintaining an oversight of the financial health and well-being of Schools and Services, both at an individual and at a System level.

To be considered for this position, you will possess the following:

  • The ability to give practical expression of your Christian Faith, ideally in the context of Lutheran Education;
  • Have a proven track record of Leadership in an Educational or similar setting;
  • Appropriate educational and/or leadership and/or business tertiary qualifications;
  • Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead and manage large-scale change;
  • Highly developed awareness of contemporary issues and practices in School Systems and Education; and
  • Proven capabilities in governance, managing and deploying resources (human, physical and financial).

As a spokesperson for Lutheran schools and child care centres, promoting their values and purpose at all levels of the Church, a current knowledge of the range of issues facing the church, its schools and early childhood centres, will be critical to your success in this senior leadership position. 

LEQ is looking for candidates with emotional intelligence, self-awareness and keen negotiation skills, who can confidently navigate relationships with various stakeholders within the church, community and political arenas.

To view the full position description, please click here.

About the Benefits

On offer to the successful candidate is an attractive remuneration package, reflective of the seniority of this position, plus a range of benefits, including:

  • Salary sacrificing options;
  • A fully maintained vehicle;
  • Professional development allowance;
  • Membership to the Qantas Club and professional associations;
  • Free car park. 

This is a varied and broad role that offers huge scope for career progression and advancement for the successful candidate.

Executive leadership opportunities of this nature don't come around often - if you have a proven track record of leadership in an educational setting and practice the Christian faith, we want to hear from you. Apply Now.

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