Area Director of Schools

Learn Academies Trust, Wigston, LE18 2AH

27 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  24 August 2026

• Closing date

  23 February 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  26 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £86,803.00 - £100,540.00 Annually (FTE)

Area Director of Schools job summary

About this Role

Area Directors will provide high-level strategic leadership and management across all aspects of the Trust’s activities for a group of six to seven schools. You will ensure that your schools provide high-quality education for all their pupils by effectively and efficiently using people and resources.

The successful candidate will provide inspirational leadership, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring that our Trust delivers exceptional service to the communities we serve.

Begin your journey with a team dedicated to empowering every pupil to achieve their full potential. If you share our values and have the vision and ambition to drive excellence, we want to hear from you.

About Learn Academies Trust

At Learn Academies Trust, we are guided by our vision and values. We work in courageous fellowship to pursue our core aims of equity, well-being, and excellence, relentlessly striving to provide the very best opportunities for every learner and every member of staff.

We are a community that is committed to professional growth, collaboration, and innovation.

• We believe in the power of education and learning to transform children’s life chances and choices.
• We care about the well-being of our pupils, colleagues, governors and school communities.
• We promise to work together, with integrity and in the spirit of fellowship, to build a professional learning community in which colleagues thrive and pupils flourish.

We have over 3300 students across our nineteen primary schools, and we are looking for dedicated and visionary professionals committed to putting these pupils at the heart of everything they do.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

We want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first-class, and we want to enable ambitious staff to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities, we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.

Are committed to our Trust values.

Show initiative and are responsive to change.

Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

Are creative in their approach to problem-solving.

Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

Are team players.

In return, we are proud to offer:

A competitive salary

Career development and learning opportunities

Pension scheme

Staff well-being scheme

Bike to work scheme

Learn Academies Trust is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and creating a truly inclusive Trust. We are determined to ensure all our stakeholders flourish and thrive. We aim to foster a culture where all are valued and respected. We acknowledge and celebrate all protected characteristics. We endeavour to remove all barriers to learning and participation. Our ED&I Policy and objectives are integral to all that we do.

Our vision for ED&I is simple, we aim to create an environment where everyone has a seat at the table, where everyone has a voice and where everyone belongs. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references (these will be requested if you are shortlisted) and successful completion of vetting.

Learn Academies Trust is a Disability Confident employer and is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

A full job description is attached with further details of the role, including a person specification. We welcome enquiries to discuss this opportunity further with our Director of Education. In the first instance, please contact Emma Moverley-Brown (Executive Assistant) by email.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Learn Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/learn-academies-trust

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