Regional Inclusion Outreach Coach Coordinator

The Regional Inclusion Outreach Coach Coordinator (RIOCC) leads the delivery of the Inclusion Outreach Coaching
Initiative across the Region. This involves providing guidance and strategic support throughout the program lifecycle,
as well as ensuring alignment with objectives in the local work area.

About the role:

The Regional Inclusion Outreach Coach Coordinator (RIOCC) leads the delivery of the Inclusion Outreach Coaching Initiative across the Region. This involves providing guidance and strategic support throughout the program lifecycle, as well as ensuring alignment with objectives in the local work area.

The RIOCC role will support the wider Regional inclusive education capability building approach, but with a primary focus on the development and delivery of the Inclusion Outreach Coaching (Learning Specialists) workforce.

Inclusion Outreach Coaching Initiative: This system initiative is a system capability initiative delivered within the broader Disability Inclusion reform. The initiative supports mainstream schools implement inclusive practices with support and expertise from ‘Inclusion Outreach Coaches'. Inclusion Outreach Coaches are based in specialist schools, but a significant portion of their role is working in local network mainstream schools.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Coordinates professional learning and coaching opportunities; facilitates collaborations between a range of educational settings

• Triages requests for support by schools, including managing referrals and deploying provision of support

• Directly communicate with schools and build partnerships with Area and Region coaching workforces and other personnel to ensure collaborative provision of support to schools, using a ‘Team Around the School' approach

• Supports Inclusion Outreach Coaching Workforces in the delivery of coaching, including monitoring implementation

• and evaluation data; identifying areas for training and development.

• Collects and analyses impact data and identify the need for inclusive education professional learning or areas for continuous improvement

• Provides guidance, resources and advice to Areas

• Supports the development and use of Inclusion Outreach Coaching implementation tools and materials.

The RIOCC requires adept stakeholder skills to work with Regions, Areas and central staff collaboratively, with sound data literacy skills to identify important data trends regarding areas of requirement for capability support.

Attributes:

The successful applicant will have high level decion making skills, communication skills and operational service delivey management skills. Applicants will require strong collabortion and strategic planning skills, alongside people management and stakeholder engagement sills.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

Desirable: Relevant experience in schools and/or education system

Desirable: Relevant tertiary qualification in education, disability, allied health, or another relevant field

Desirable: Understanding of evidenced based implementation science approach within Education.

About the Division:

Student Wellenbing & Engagement Division (SWED) is responsible for promoting and implementing regional and statewide consistency in areas relating to Wellening and Enaggement.

The Division consists of several branches:

• Mental Health Reform
• LOOKOUT
• Welbeing & Engagememt
• DIsability Inclusion
• School Inclusive Practice
• Youth Justice

 

About the Department:

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education