Chief Education Officer

Academy Transformation Trust, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6AZ

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To be agreed

• Closing date

  19 October 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  25 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £135,000.00 Annually (FTE) Spot Salary

Chief Education Officer job summary

Chief Education Officer

Academy Transformation Trust | £135,000 | Full time, permanent

Academy Transformation Trust is looking for an exceptional educationalist to join our C-Suite as Chief Education Officer.

This is not a conventional CEdO role, and we are not looking for a glorified executive headteacher.

ATT serves 22 academies across 10 local authority areas, many in communities experiencing significant disadvantage. Through ATT2030, we have set an ambitious direction for our future: we want every pupil to become capable, competent and confident, able to take their rightful place in the community of educated people.

We already have a highly capable education team. Our Continuous Improvement Partners work directly with principals, providing counsel, challenge and support. The CEdO will lead the people who lead that work, bringing greater coherence to our educational thinking and helping us translate ATT2030 into something increasingly visible in the daily experience of every child.

We are looking for someone who:

• possesses deep educational expertise and is intellectually curious;
• can lead highly capable people without needing to be the expert in every room;
• builds authority through expertise, judgement, relationships and the quality of their argument;
• can connect ideas, people and functions across a complex organisation;
• is comfortable with evidence, challenge and changing their mind when persuaded;
• can translate ambitious educational thinking into sustainable organisational improvement; and
• wants to contribute not only to ATT, but to thinking and practice across the wider education sector.

We are not interested in educational fads and fashions. We want evidence, scholarship, professional expertise and careful thought to inform our work. Nor are we seeking someone with a fixed model to impose across 22 academies. We want strong principals with genuine agency while realising the enormous potential of working together as one trust.

As a member of our C-Suite, you will also share responsibility for the success of ATT as a whole. Education will be your principal executive responsibility, but you will think seriously about people, finance, technology, estates, organisational design, risk and growth as part of our educational mission.

There is a great deal still to build. That is precisely what makes this role interesting.

We strongly encourage you to read the full applicant pack before deciding whether this unusual role might be for you. Prospective candidates are also encouraged to have a confidential conversation with Mark McCourt, Chief Executive Officer, before applying.

Closing date: 10am, Monday 19 October 2026
Interviews: Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2026

We are a Disability Confident Employer

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE 2026. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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 Academy Transformation Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Academy Transformation Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/academy-transformation-trust

Our cross-phase group of academies was founded in 2011 and, since that time, we have grown to our current family of 21 academies (primary, secondary, post-16 and FE) operating across 10 English local authority areas.

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