Principal Teacher - Curriculum Languages, Media and Film

Principal Teacher – Curriculum, Languages, Media and Film

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 26 January 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 18 January 2026

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: PT6 £ 69,270 (Subject to Job Sizing)

Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week, Monday‑Friday

Location: St Columbas RC High School, Dunfermline

Purpose and Values of Education & Childrens Services Directorate:

The Education & Childrens Services Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values:
Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.

Supporting Statement:

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement outlining how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the

How to Apply

section of our Career Site.
Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload résumé. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at

When completing your Supporting Statement, please consider and demonstrate the following:

• Ways you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles.
• How you have demonstrated your knowledge, skills and understanding when contributing to the leadership of change.
• How you have supported and sustained colleagues in creating a positive environment for all learners.
• Ways in which you have built and developed approaches to increase and promote positive partnerships.
• Ways in which you have used self‑evaluation to make changes at classrooms, department or school level.

Job Details:

We are looking for a highly‑skilled Principal Teacher Curriculum who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positive outcomes for our children and young people. As a principal teacher in Fife you will be responsible for supporting the senior leadership team by contributing to the strategic vision for the school, working with a wide range of stakeholders to implement and pursue the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self‑improving system across the education community.

Specific

Duties Include:

• Direct line management responsibility for allocated staff in English, Modern Languages & Media: performance management of staff, absence monitoring and attendance procedures, discipline and competency procedures, PRD, CPD, assist with selection and recruitment of staff.
• Lead and manage raising attainment and achievement, attendance, behaviour management and relationships, curriculum offer, curriculum pathways, learning, teaching & assessment, and pedagogy within the faculty.
• Responsible for producing and leading faculty improvement plan and contributing to the management of the school improvement planning process.
• Be accountable for allocated budgets and the effective deployment of resources.
• Responsible for overseeing work with the Primary Cluster via the PT1 Literacy.

Be aware of health and safety requirements and apply these as appropriate.

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements:

You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of the senior leadership team to lead and manage school improvement, both at strategic and operational levels, to ensure continuous improvement.

You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career‑long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has…