Commencement Date: Monday 18 January 2027
Employment Type: Full-time, fixed term leadership position with a possible 0.4 FTE teaching load, until January 2030
This position holds a substantive permanent teaching position within Catholic Education, Diocese of Cairns.
Salary Range: Graduate $86,600 to Proficient 8 $124,724 FTE gross p.a + up to 4 PPOL Points ($13,024 gross p.a)
Closing Date for Applications: 5pm, Sunday 22 November 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, so please apply as soon as possible
St Thomas Of Villanova Catholic Parish School catering for students from Prep to Year 6, is situated in the town of Mareeba in the Cairns Hinterland, approximately an hour’s drive west of Cairns. The town of Mareeba (a local indigenous word meaning ‘meeting of the waters’) and the surrounding shire is home to tropical rainforests, savannah woodlands, national parks, rivers, waterfalls, granite mountain tops, gorges, escarpments and limestone caves. Prior to European settlement, it was a meeting place for the local indigenous people of the area, the ‘Kuku Muluridji’. Presently our enrolments include a significant number of students with diverse cultural backgrounds including indigenous students.
Catholic Education in the Mareeba district began more than a century ago founded by the Sisters of Mercy who continued a long tradition of working with religious from the Order of Saint Augustine. The influence of our Parish Community was manifested in the early 1950s when our school previously known as Good Counsel, took the name of the patron of our Parish, St Thomas of Villanova. The work of the many religious who enriched the faith life of our community is recognised in the names of our school sports houses: Phelan and O’Connor, named after the two longest serving Augustinian priests and Power and Mills, named after the founding Sister of Mercy and our last serving Sister and Religious Principal.
The role of the Position of Leadership - Learning and Teaching, is to support the vision and mission of the school through leadership of learning and teaching. This involves leading the development of appropriate curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting in line with national and local requirements. This will involve:
For further information about the role, please download the Position Description 
Primary Position of Leadership - Learning & Teaching
Intending applicants must be fully committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation.
Catholic Education is an equal opportunity employer.
Principal
Paul Rayner
P: 4043 4100
E: principal.mareeba@cns.catholic.edu.au
CEDC