What it does: Catholic schools have been delivering excellence in education to Sydney school students for 200 years.
Mission: To Know and Love Christ through learning.
Size and presence: Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) continues to be a thriving and growing contemporary educational community with over 150 schools, more than 71,000 current students, 10,000 staff, and a large alumni community.
Best known for: Our dedicated and hard-working educators deliver a strong faith-based education, catering to students with all interests and abilities through programs such as the Newman Selective Gifted Education Program and CaSPA for the performing arts, and our vocational education offerings.
The good bits: Good salary and work-life balance.
The not-so-good bits: Bullying from managers with minimal support.
Sydney Catholic Schools is celebrating 200 years of Catholic education in Australia in 2021.
For 100 years, our schools were run exclusively by the charity of the Catholic Church and the generosity of their local parish communities.
Rising populations fueled by the Baby Boom and post-WWII migration prompted the government to reintroduce funding for Church schools during the late 1960s as a way to cope with the unprecedented growth in the student population.
Today, we have 150 schools across the Archdiocese ensuring families have access to a low-fee Catholic education that will provide their children with the skills and knowledge they will need for the jobs of the future.
At Sydney Catholic Schools we believe that our staff is our most important resource in guiding our next generation to build an even stronger future for our faith and supporting those that guide them.
To grow young minds and provide service excellence, we need to ensure that our employees are well compensated, resourced, and provided with the skills they need to adapt to the new challenges in preparing students and staff for the jobs of the future.
Sydney Catholic Schools is strongly committed to protecting children and young people. As part of our employment process, we require that all applicants undergo a screening process, involving a Working With Children Check, before their appointment.
Applicants include casual teachers, contractors and volunteers (such as sports coaches, umpires, and referees), and anyone undertaking an internship.
Leave & holidays
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
✅ Hospital
✅ Outpatient
✅ Dental
✅ Maternity
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
⛔Free dinner
Sydney Catholic Schools has partnered with South East Sydney Local Health District to establish vaccination hubs for 5-11 year-olds at two of its schools: Marcellin College Randwick and St Patrick’s College Sutherland.
Sydney Catholic Schools Executive Director, Tony Farley, has confirmed that 4,000 air purification units with HEPA filters will be rolled out across all 150 SCS schools to boost students’ health and wellbeing.
Students at Sydney Catholic Schools are creating a movement of compassionate conservation, showing that saving the planet is meaningless unless you also care about the people in it.
St Aidan’s Catholic Primary School Maroubra Principal Leonie Palmer said that her students started the year examining ways to reduce the amount of rubbish being produced at school, before happening upon a more meaningful movement.