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Head of Faculty resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what head of facultys actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most head of facultys should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Experienced faculty leader in Australian secondary and senior secondary education, with a record of lifting teaching quality and student outcomes across a subject area. Combines curriculum and assessment expertise with the people leadership and budgeting discipline a Head of Faculty role demands. Registered teacher who works closely with senior leadership, parents and external stakeholders.
Key skills
- Curriculum and lesson design
- Teaching and instruction
- Student assessment and reporting
- Assessment moderation and data analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- People leadership and staff mentoring
- Staff performance review and development
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication and faculty reporting
- Compass
- Sentral
- Canvas
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Workspace for Education
Experience: example bullet points
- Led a whole faculty curriculum review across Years 7 to 12, resequencing units of work and assessment so that teaching programs aligned with the state syllabus and reporting deadlines were met consistently.
- Mentored four early career teachers through the provisional to proficient transition, supporting each to build evidence against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Introduced a shared assessment calendar in Canvas and Compass, which cut the turnaround time for marking and moderation from three weeks to under ten days.
- Chaired assessment moderation meetings across the faculty, tightening the consistency of judgments between classes and reducing the number of results queried at reporting time.
- Managed the faculty budget across several cost centres, tracking resources and staffing against forecast each term and reallocating underspent funds to classroom resources.
- Handled parent and student concerns at faculty level, resolving the large majority without escalation to the deputy principal.
- Coordinated timetabling and relief cover for a faculty of more than twenty staff, keeping classes covered through a difficult staffing period.
Education
Bachelor of Education or a Bachelor degree plus a postgraduate teaching qualification, with many Heads of Faculty holding a Master of Education or Master of Educational Leadership; current registration with the relevant state or territory teacher authority (for example NESA, VIT or QCT) and a Working with Children Check.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- NESA
- VIT
- Queensland College of Teachers
- Teacher Registration
- Working with Children Check
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- AITSL
- Australian Curriculum
- ACARA
- NAPLAN
- NCCD
- Child Safe Standards
- VET
- RTO
- ASQA
- Compass
- Sentral
- Canvas
- curriculum leadership
- faculty leadership
- performance review
- assessment moderation
- student outcomes
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.