Chief Education Officer (Deputy CEO)
The Good Shepherd Trust, Guildford, GU1 1JYThis job expired on 3 February 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 4pm
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £95,245.00 - £106,930.00 Annually (FTE) Plus Teachers' Pension Scheme
Chief Education Officer (Deputy CEO) job summary
The Good Shepherd Trust (GST) is seeking an inspirational Chief Education Officer (CEdO) who can develop the trust’s education strategy in partnership with the CEO and CFOO. This is an exciting strategic role, working with a highly skilled and knowledgeable education team and the wider executive. The CEdO will contribute to raising the trust profile through effective stakeholder engagement and deputising for the CEO when required. The trust is looking for a visionary and creative leader who is a team player and who can help shape education in the trust in an ever-changing landscape.
As Deputy CEO, the CEdO will;
Support our CEO in leading our trust through the next stage of its evolution, ensuring we provide the best experience for our staff, our children, and our young people.
Support our CEOS in their core duties, fulfilling their statutory, regulatory, and legal responsibilities while recognising the broader parameters, moral responsibility, and purpose of a multi-academy trust.
Support the CEO in leading, mentoring, empowering and supporting other Executive Leaders, Headteachers and central services managers.
Key Accountabilities:
Expanding the trust’s education strategy with a trust-wide focus on all aspects of quality of education across the trust’s schools.
Quality assurance processes across the trust to assure the trust board.
Effective performance of headteachers/principals across the trust.
Promoting GST locally and nationally, including meeting with schools considering joining GST
Reporting to the trust board and committees on educational strategy and standards.
The pedagogical approach across GST.
The curriculum policy of GST.
Strategic leadership of all educational risks on the trust’s risk register.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Trust strategy, vision and values
Act as principal adviser to the GST on behalf of the education team on education matters, including academic standards, to ensure that its academies remain at the cutting edge of innovation and change, achieving outstanding outcomes.
Lead external policies, projects and inspections related to school improvement, including government, Department for Education, Ofsted, national and local authority initiatives, and externally funded projects.
Advise external bodies on academies’ educational performance (e.g. Diocese, DfE).
Engage with the trust’s chief executive, the board of trustees and the academies’ senior staff as appropriate, to lead the development and implementation of the education strategy for the trust’s academies, creating the platform for the development of high standards, curriculum policy and effective teaching and learning.
Lead educational aspects of due diligence on prospective schools joining the trust and develop action plans as they join.
Lead major transformational projects across the trust as required.
Leadership and management
As a member of the trust’s Senior Leadership Team, provide strategic leadership and direction for the trust and deputise for the CEO, taking decisions and actions collectively with other executive team members and acting as the CEO’s representative as required.
Contribute to the trust’s senior management team to ensure its effective management and development.
Engage with and motivate a high-performing team within each academy, including the principal/headteacher, to achieve transformational change, growth, and success.
Develop a coherent strategic education team to contribute to school improvement across the trust. This team will ensure that activities are complementary, focused on key priorities, and maximise impact across the trust’s academies.
Build a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality performance, ensuring effective performance management and succession planning arrangements are in place.
Education strategy
Lead the planning, development and implementation of an effective education strategy, in conjunction with the education team, ensuring that aspirations and standards continue to rise in each of the trust’s academies over the long term. This includes:
o - developing the trust’s curriculum strategy and engaging with headteachers to ensure ownership and buy-in;
o - contributing to the needs-based budget setting for each academy in conjunction with the finance team;
o - developing fully costed annual programmes of school improvement activities;
o - meeting both national policy and local expectations so that the academies’ provision and outcomes meet external requirements/accountability frameworks and ensure that all learners benefit;
o - proactive leadership and management of additional support and interventions for schools that are causing concern;
o - providing consistent recording and monitoring systems;
o - coordinate and monitor internally and externally led projects. For example, supporting schools outside GST or county-wide initiatives.
In conjunction with academy principals/headteachers, determining each school’s improvement needs, with an emphasis on high standards of teaching and learning, to achieve outward-facing, aspirational organisations with a national reputation for outstanding achievement.
Lead preparations for Ofsted and other external agency evaluations and inspections of the trust.
Ensure timely and effective sharing of good practice across the GST with measurable impact.
Evaluation of performance
Evaluate the performance of each of the trust’s academies, including the timely provision of data and effective use of management information, to ensure high standards that reflect the aspiration of the GST board.
Provide timely information to trustee directors so that they have the information they require to evaluate performance and hold headteachers to account for academic performance.
Undertake regular evaluation and monitoring of academies.
On behalf of the chief executive and chair of the board of trustees, be responsible for annual performance reviews of academy principals/headteachers, to be responsible for appropriate objectives for the forthcoming year are identified in conjunction with the chief executive and principal/headteacher, and reviewing progress during the year, so that each principal/headteacher receives both challenge and support to fulfil their roles effectively.
Have responsibility for the annual performance reviews of members of the education team, ensuring appropriate objectives for the forthcoming year are identified and reviewing progress during the year, so that each member receives both challenge and support to fulfil their roles effectively.
Develop a trust-wide education leadership succession plan.
Attend the trust’s full board meetings and the education committee as an officer.
Attend other committees as required.
Equalities
Assure that GST actively values and promotes diversity, unity and community cohesion and supports pupils to become successful and engaged citizens. Actively challenge and address discrimination. Ensure a continual focus on equality as measured by pupil progress of groups.
Proactively seek opportunities to make GST more diverse at all levels from governance through to staffing.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Good Shepherd Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that all our employment practices reflect this commitment. All appointments are made subject to an enhanced DBS clearance (Disclosure and Barring Service), satisfactory references and qualification checks.
About The Good Shepherd Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Welcome from the CEO - Paul Kennedy
A very warm welcome to the Good Shepherd Trust (GST) and thank you for taking the time to visit our website. I joined the GST as CEO in February 2020 having spent over twenty-five years in education as a teacher, leader, headteacher and trust CEO. This is an exciting time for the GST as we further develop and strengthen our network of schools.
The GST is a multi-academy trust serving 18 schools within the Diocese of Guildford across Surrey and Hampshire. Our trust comprises both primary and secondary schools, schools affiliated to the Church of England and others who are not. Our purpose is to grow and maintain a strong network of schools within a highly supportive and sharing network: we know that schools are better when they work together sharing common values and goals. Opportunities for staff development are a key priority for us - as a member of support staff, as a teacher, as a head teacher or as a local committee member you will have access to wide and varied professional development.
But at the heart of what we do are the children and young people within our schools. GST schools are first and foremost highly inclusive settings where we strive to see each child flourish and grow, transforming lives and offering breadth and richness in each school’s individual curriculum. We also seek to fulfil the Church of England’s vision for education providing schools for the entire community we serve, for people of all faiths and none.
Our mission is drawn from the words of Jesus in John’s Gospel – ‘I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.’ It is in this context that Jesus reveals to us the wonderful image of himself, The Good Shepherd who shows us how to live, to love and serve others whilst we experience the richness of life in its fullness.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, leader or prospective member of a local committee or a Trustee, please get in touch if you would like to know more about the GST.
With best wishes,
Paul Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer
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