Assistant Principal (Director of Post-16 Education & IB Coordinator)
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Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
2 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11 - L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Owing to internal movement, we are excited to announce an exceptional opportunity for an experienced, innovative and dedicated individual to join our leadership team as our academy is committed to delivering high quality education and nurturing an inclusive and supportive learning environment.
As the Assistant Principal/Director of Sixth Form, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing our sixth form, ensuring our students are supporting socially, academically and personally. You will drive strategic initiatives to enhance student outcomes and foster a culture of high aspirations and success.
Job Purpose
- To lead and manage the task of creating and maintaining conditions in which the students can reach the highest educational standards at the Academy through the delivery of the Academy Improvement Plan and creating and maintaining an ethos which brings out the best in staff and students across the Academy to ensure continuous improvement.
- To contribute to the overall leadership and management of the Academy and undertake any professional duties that the Principal reasonably delegates.
- To support actively the vision, ethos, culture and policies of the Academy and to take corporate responsibility for delivering this vision.
- To be responsible for the academic progress and personal development of all students and work to identified key performance indicators in this regard, with responsibility for sixth form students.
- To provide information, guidance and administrative support to students, colleagues and other stakeholders on all aspects of the IB programmes.
To be responsible for coordination of IB.
- To raise standards at the Academy through the coordination of all activities linked to the IB programmes.
- To lead in areas of core responsibility, as designated and agreed with the Principal.
- To work to the professional duties for school leaders as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- A valuable pension package
- Fitness suite and sports facilities
- Local authority rewards scheme
- E platform/digital library
- Staff car park including EV charging station
Commitment to safeguarding
The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
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About Skinners' Kent Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1036 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Skinners' Kent Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
The Skinners’ Kent Academy is a non-fee paying, co-educational, all-ability Secondary school. The Academy is funded by the DfE and sponsored by The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys together with the Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London.
The Academy is founded on the principles of a commitment to ensuring high standards and high aspirations, of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive culture where every child is known and every learner supported.
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