Careers opportunities

Career paths | Teaching vacancies

The Department of Education and the Arts employs more than 35 000 teachers and 15 000 administrative personnel. All our staff contribute to the delivery of quality education services through over 1 300 state primary, secondary, special and distance education schools.

We employ teachers on the following bases:

Permanent full-time - teachers work 10 days per fortnight.
Permanent part-time - teachers work 2-9 days per fortnight; salary and entitlements apply on a pro-rata basis.
Temporary - teachers are engaged from 6 days to 12 months on a full- or part-time basis.
Casual - teachers are engaged on a daily basis for up to 5 days at a time.

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Career paths

While the diversity of a teaching job makes for a rewarding career, there are many other opportunities within the Department, including:

head of department
deputy principal
principal
head of school
head of campus
guidance officer
head of special education services
head of curriculum
community teacher
instrumental music instructor/teacher

Meet our teachers and get a glimpse of diverse career paths with the Department of Education and the Arts.

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Teaching vacancies

Staff in region offices manage all teaching vacancies within schools. Once received, an application is processed by the Teacher Applicant Centre and remains active for 12 months. Some hard-to-fill vacancies may be advertised in local and interstate newspapers and seek.com. Those vacancies are also outlined in the vacancies spreadsheet (new window) 23k . The spreadsheet details the relevant contact officer for each vacancy should you be interested in a particular position.

View the Department's interactive maps to get contact details for your local region office.

You can search online for all positions available with the Queensland Government at http://www.jobs.qld.gov.au .

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