Birmingham Regional Director

Ark Schools, London, W12 7TF

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026, or sooner if possible

• Closing date

  13 April 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time, permanent
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Significant and generous salary, including potential relocation allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

Ark Schools seeks to appoint a new Regional Director to lead the Birmingham region and take responsibility for aspects of our network-wide strategy. This rare opportunity offers the successful candidate the chance to join one of the country’s most successful MATs at an exciting point in our journey. As Ark embarks on our new ten-year strategy, the successful candidate will play an integral role in shaping and delivering a compelling vision for education over the coming years. The appointed Regional Director will join Ark this September (2026), or sooner if possible.

Our schools are currently organised into five regions – Birmingham, Hastings, London & Portsmouth Primaries, North London & Portsmouth and South London. Our current Regional Director, Gail Peyton, has played an instrumental role across the Ark network during her tenure and leaves us to become the CEO of a new trust abroad. As such, we are seeking to find an exceptional leader with a track record of delivering great outcomes; a strong alignment with the Ark mission; a willingness to go the extra mile for our pupils and staff; and anability to lead and inspire principals and central colleagues.

We welcome and encourage confidential conversations about the role from suitable candidates. If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity, please contact our Head of Talent, Lexy di Marco, at Alexia.DiMarco@arkonline.org 

To apply, please submit a full application, including CV and personal statement,via the Ark recruitment portal by Monday 13th April at 9am. (Please ensure your personal statement focuses on how you meet the first seven italic bullet points from the‘Specialist Knowledge and Skills’ section in the person specification).

If you have any questions,concerns or time constraints with applying please contact us directly.    

For more information about the role and Ark, please view the full job pack.     

What the school offers its staff

Recently, Ark moved to new offices atEdCity– a unique not-for-profit development in West London, in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham council. EdCity is designed to bring mission-aligned organisations together to focus on improving the lives of children, especially through education. It offers leased offices, a range of venues for training and events, and an innovation hub for the education sector to connect, collaborate and learn together.

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.

Ark is an education charity and one of the country’s most successful multi-academy trusts. Our network of 39 schools reaches traditionally underserved communities in Birmingham, Hastings, Londonand Portsmouth. We educate 30,000 pupils and have nearly 3,000 teaching staff across our network. Each of our schools has its own ethos and distinctive character, reflecting its local community, but they all share the same mission: to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life. We also incubate and scale innovative ventures, which we roll out beyond our network of schools for the benefit of teachers, pupils and the education system as a whole. Current Ventures include Ark Curriculum Plus, which equips teachers with the subject expertise needed to ensure students succeed, and Ark Start, a growing chain of nurseries offering affordable, high-quality early years education.

Commitment to safeguarding

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

All employees must undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Birmingham Regional Director Candidate Information Pack.pdf - 1.09 MB (opens in new tab)

About Ark Schools

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Ark Schools website
• Email address: Alexia.DiMarco@arkonline.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ark-schools

We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we’re recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.

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