Regional Education Manager
What the work is
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates educational approaches and policy, and curriculum resources and development for preschool, primary, secondary, Technical and Further Education (TAFE) or polytechnic teachers and administrators.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Provides educational leadership to teachers, principals and administrative staff of education institutions in the development and coordination of educational programs
- Researches, develops, implements, reviews and evaluates educational and administrative policy
- Applies for and manages funding for new educational programs
- Builds relationships with institutions and key agencies
- Advises on policy and procedures to staff and students
- Consults with academic and administrative staff to formulate educational programs
- Identifies and addresses present and future needs for student and staff development
- Organises and conducts training for teachers in new programs and methods
- Researches educational systems, and monitors and evaluates developments and trends
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the trades and applied skills faculty of a fictional technical college in a regional city. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A student who nearly left in their first month stands up at graduation with their family watching
- Teachers from different departments agree on a plan after a long, honest meeting
- An employer calls to say the graduates they hired are the best they have had
Hard days
- A funding change lands and you have to tell a team that a program may not run
- A teacher you respect is not coping and the students are feeling it
- A complaint from a student, backed by a parent, about a decision that was within the rules
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 141432, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.