CEB Staff Newsletter #46 - 20 January 2023

CEB Staff Day - 27 January, 2023

CEB staff are invited to join the staff of our schools to attend Mass in the Central Zone and the Southern Zone commencing at 9.00am. We encourage CEB staff within these regions to show solidarity with school staff as they commence the school year. 

Our staff meeting will be held via VC. Please see below for an outline of the day, along with the Zoom link that was emailed to everyone on Monday 16 January.

• 9.00am - Mass with Zone schools
• 11.00am - Executive Director welcome, presentation and system updates including CEB priorities 2023
• 11.45am - Break
• 12:00pm - Deputy Director: Catholic Education to introduce the 2023 theme for the year and Catholic Education Week as a message of support for the need for dialogue in all that we do - Let the words you speak always be full of grace, Colossians 4:6
•  12.10pm - Directorate members to provide operational updates
•  1.00pm - Break
•  1.30pm - Team meeting time

Article submitted by Kerrie Zammit

Central Zone Mass - Ballarat Diocese

All Catholic Education Office staff are invited to attend mass to celebrate the start of the school year with staff groups from our Central Zone schools - please see invite for details.  

Regardless of your role in CEB, as contributors to the endeavour of Catholic Education, your presence and participation in this celebration is valued and welcome should you choose to attend.  

At this stage we have over 700 staff from schools attending so parking will be rather difficult around the Cathedral.

For other areas of our diocese, please check with your local school network to see if they are holding a local celebration.

Article submitted by Jo-Anne Bond

2023 Meeting Calendar, Organisation Chart and Directory

Please see below for the latest versions of Catholic Education Ballarat's 2023 Meeting Calendar, Organisational Chart and Directory.

Staff are asked to review the meeting calendar and populate your Outlook calendars with the dates relevant as invitations will not be sent for all meetings.

The Organisation Chart and Directory are also available to download from the DOBCEL website.

Article submitted by Kerrie Zammit

CEB Group Emails

In 2022, a review of CEBs extensive Global Email Address List was conducted and it was concluded that the number and makeup of the email groups were out of date. To that end, new group emails have been designed in line with the Organisation structure and were approved by the Leadership Team.

These will now go live as of Monday 23 January. All other email groups will be deleted.

Should you wish to create an email ‘group’ outside of what has been designed, you are required to do this within your personal email address book.

If you have any queries, please direct them to Kerrie Zammit.

Article submitted by Kerrie Zammit

DOBCEL IT Help in 2023

With the start of a new year; it’s a great time to refresh and remind staff and schools on how to reach out to the DOBCEL ICT Team when you need help. The DOBCEL ICT Team are on deck Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm. 

Some common questions revolve around what services can they provide and how can they assist both DOBCEL Staff and Schools with their ICT questions and support – but they can also assist by providing more detailed and strategic assistance in the following areas: 

• ICT Infrastructure like servers, networking (wired and Wi-Fi) and backups. 
• IT Security and System hardening including internally review and audits. 
• Strategic planning for all areas of ICT systems and processes to assist with review and quoting for new systems.
• Offer technical support and advice to schools as a technical representative when looking at new technologies or working with 3rd party vendors. 
• Assistance with 3rd party IT providers to assist and help with day-to-day troubleshooting.
• End to End Support and management of all school ICT assets and infrastructure including life cycling and maintenance.

While there services are not limited to the above – they are here to provide support and be technology advocates for staff and schools to ensure the solutions put in place are robust, effective, and manageable but also are cost-effective. 

We wish all schools a successful start to 2023 and are excited to provide raft of new solutions and systems to help secure and enhance our Diocesan schools.

Please see below how to efficiently connect with our ICT Team.

Employment Opportunity

We are seeking to hire a Receptionist for the Ballarat Office commencing February. This will be a full time ongoing position. Please see Role Description attached below. 

To discuss this position further, please contact Kerrie Zammit on 0407 021 212.

Applications close Friday 3 February 2023 and are to be submitted to Jo Huntley.

Article submitted by Kerrie Zammit

Staff News

Congratulations to Mel Willis and her partner Chris Frost, who are getting married on February 4th. We wish Mel and Chris a wonderful wedding day and a future ahead filled with love and happiness. 

Mel will be on leave from February 2nd – 28th. 

Teresa Hadden will be on long service leave from January 23rd – February 17th. Teresa is heading to New Zealand, so we hope she enjoys a great break. 

Article submitted by Sue Paulka

Career Opportunities in the Diocesan Education Community

Catholic Education Ballarat

• Finance and Fleet Officer – full or part-time opportunity (closes 23 January) 
• Education Officer (Learning and Teaching) – Mildura, Swan Hill or Horsham – full or part-time opportunity (closes 1 February) 

Article submitted by Jo Huntley