Chief Executive Officer
The Boleyn Trust, London, E13 8SA46 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
6 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Inner London L32 - L38
What skills and experience we're looking for
Core Duties
> Establish and sustain the Trust’s mission, culture, values, and strategic direction in partnership with the Trust Board.
> To drive exceptional educational and sustainable financial outcomes for the Trust.
> To be responsible for the delivering and developing of the strategic visions, values, and ethos for each school in conjunction with school leaders and other members of the Executive Leadership Team.
> Provide vision, direction and leadership that enables the Trust to achieve its strategic objectives and secure its future sustainability.
> To act as an ambassador of the Trust, promoting the organisations core purpose and values and enhancing the reputation and standing of the Trust, ensuring it is a respected member of the community it serves.
> To constantly research both actual and potential changes in the education landscape to ensure proactive development.
> Oversee and be accountable for all aspects of Safeguarding and the Trust approach to Keeping Children Safe in Education.
> Work with the Trust’s Executive Leader (Primary) to ensure that our schools are prepared for all Ofsted inspections and monitoring visits.
> Ensure improvement strategies are mapped out, actioned, and followed up.
Strategic Leadership Responsibilities
> Provide strategic and motivated leadership and direction of the Trust and its schools within the vision and strategy agreed by the Board of Trustees.
> Develop and execute polices, plans, and systems that translate the Trust’s vision into actionable objectives and outcomes.
> Oversee robust accountability by supporting the Executive Leader (Primary) to support the schools’ leadership teams, to develop the shared vision and strategic plan for the schools, which is responsive to the communities they serve. At the core of this should be the educational and personal development of the pupils.
> Ensure that the Trust financial viability is secure, firmly based on accurate analysis and can meet both the needs of the Trust and its schools.
> Take responsibility for the design and implementation of the annual business plan and key documents such as the Trust’s long-term Strategic Plan, self-evaluation, and improvement plans for the schools.
> Together with the Trust Board and Executive Leadership Team, ensure proactive, robust, and appropriate risk mitigation and management and ensure that the risk strategy is aligned to local school risk strategies.
> Robust understanding of the importance of the regulatory environment in which the Trust operates.
> Committed to ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place, including a personal commitment to the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people.
> Maintain an outward facing role on behalf of the Trust to strengthen its future growth and relationships with all parties and stakeholders, including external agencies such as Department for Education, local authorities, pupils, parents, staff, and their local communities.
Governance and Compliance, in Liaison with the Board of Trustees
> To lead in collaboration with the Trustees, on the preparation and submission of the annual Statutory Accounts (including the Trustees annual report) ensuring these documents and any other statutory returns are submitted as prescribed.
> As instructed by the Board of Trustees, to ensure operational managers are meeting the requirements for governance health and safety, safeguarding, risk management and equality, diversity, and inclusion, within the framework that ensures safe, effective, and high-quality services.
> To develop, implement, and regularly review operational policies to ensure full compliance with legal, regulatory, and sector best practices.
> To ensure that robust evaluation procedures are in place to ensure high quality, effective and sustainable service are being provided.
> To undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Trustees, including the production of full and transparent reports to Trustees to enable timely and considered strategic decision making.
System and Civic Leadership
> Be a visible, inspiring, and approachable local, regional, and national figure. Regularly canvassing stakeholders to inform policy development, practices and proactivity representing the Trust, including in the media if appropriate.
> Build relationships with the Department for Education, Ofsted, and others, ensuring that they are robust professional and that external views are sought, understood, and responded to.
> Create and engage in the collective leadership of the sector, building strong local systems to address disadvantage and improve the quality of education for all children within the Trust.
> Promote and enable ways in which the Trust’s schools and their local standards and safeguarding committees engage meaningfully with their communities and are responsive and accountable to them.
Finance and Procurement
> The CEO will work closely with the CFOO and MATFS to ensure that the Trust works to the standards set out, ensuring appropriate polices, frameworks and systems are in place.
> Ensure long term financial sustainability, by establishing and confirming the effective monitoring of proper financial systems, ensuring that appropriate action is recommended to address problems identified.
> To ensure that the Board of Trustees receives accurate and timely financial reports.
> Support and review annual budgets of each school within the Trust to ensure that all budgetary targets are met by individual schools and efficiencies are maximised.
> Challenge the CFOO to negotiate and agree optimum costs / prices with service providers to achieve economies of scale, adopting the appropriate procurement process.
> Develop and implement strategies for the generation of additional revenue and resources for the Trust.
Developing Self, Innovation and Creativity
> Treat everyone within each school fairly and equitably.
> Promote continuous learning, engaging with professional development opportunities.
> Develop relationships with relevant funding bodies and external providers.
> Ensure the Trust effectively develops all staff to enable them to achieve their maximum potential and ensure good morale and opportunities for succession in accordance with the Trusts People Strategy.
> Regularly review personal practise, set performance targets, and participate in performance management processes.
Leading by Example
> Provide dynamic, consistent, and motivational leadership, ensuring the successful delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the schools and of the Trust.
> Uphold and demonstrate The Principles of Public Life (The Nolan Principles).
> Lead by example, being personally visible to the Trust’s employees.
> Establish collaborative and open relationships with all stakeholders.
> Ensure regular, open communication with the Trust Board.
> Ensure that communication channels exist enabling all staff to receive information they need to perform their professional duties effectively.
> Oversee the implementation of all Trust policies and procedures ensuring consistent application.
> Collaborate with all stakeholders to generate enthusiasm and commitment.
> Challenge, motivate and empower others to attain ambitious outcomes.
Supporting the Work of the Trust
> Develop and maintain the ethos of trust in all schools so that it is intrinsic and permeates all aspects of the school’s life and curriculum.
> Develop strong, positive relationships with colleagues within the Trust, and contribute to collaborative work across the schools and support other staff in participating in Trust work.
> Participate in Trust wide activities to share best practice, contribute to the development of Trust strategies and policies and promote the schools in a local and national context.
> Delivery of a People Strategy that achieves the strategic ambitions of talent attraction, retention, and growth through creation of career pathways, an informed and tailored learning and organisational development offer, being a positive advocate and promoter for diversity, equality, and inclusion.
> Strengthen each school’s positive image in the wider community.
> Present complex information in a consistently credible manner to the Trust Board and external parties.
> Promote the schools and the Trust to a range of audiences.
> Develop and maintain respect across all stakeholders, inspiring individuals to contribute positively to shared ideas and plans for the schools, and the wider Trust family.
What the school offers its staff
At The Boleyn Trust, joining us at any stage of your career offers a truly rewarding and enriching experience. You will become part of a passionate and dedicated team, spanning eight schools, a Teaching School Hub, and a central services team - all working toward a common goal: creating exceptional environments for both learning and working. We are committed to nurturing the talents and careers of our staff, ensuring that we retain top-tier leaders, teachers, and support personnel, not only within our Trust but across the wider education sector.
We offer an enticing benefits package, abundant professional development opportunities, and a strong emphasis on career advancement. At The Boleyn Trust, you will thrive in a supportive, flexible, and inclusive environment that prioritises your health, wellbeing, and growth within a culture of openness and mutual respect.
Our investment in you includes:
> All staff receive three wellbeing days per academic year (pro-rata for part-time employees).
> We offer a generous two-week October half-term across all schools.
> Funded professional development for roles such as Data Protection and Wellbeing Champions that align with our goals.
> We foster strong, collaborative relationships with Trade Union colleagues.
> We encourage voluntary secondment opportunities, allowing staff to broaden their skills both within and outside the Trust.
> We provide internal promotion opportunities while ensuring continuity of service.
> Access to outstanding professional development opportunities to support your career progression.
> Membership in either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
> Ample Leave: Non-term-time staff benefit from generous annual leave, in addition to bank holidays.
> Employee Assistance Programme: Confidential, free support services for advice on a range of issues.
> Cycle to Work Scheme: Save on commuting costs with our cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme.
> Interest-free season ticket and parking permit loans.
> Pay awards in line with national and local recommendations.
At The Boleyn Trust, you will not only find a fulfilling career but also a community that invests in your future and well-being.
Further information about the job
A full recruitment pack can be viewed by visiting our website at: https://theboleyntrust.org/get-involved/work-for-us/
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Apply for this jobAbout The Boleyn Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- The Boleyn Trust website
- Email address
- steven.lock@theboleyntrust.org
- Phone number
- 020 7476 1848
The Boleyn Trust, established in 2017, is a family of eight large, multicultural primary schools located in the vibrant London Boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. Renowned for their exceptional performance, our academies consistently rank in the top 3% nationally for pupil progress, with seven judged Outstanding by Ofsted and one judged Good. This success reflects our unwavering commitment to transforming the life chances of pupils, particularly in disadvantaged communities, through high expectations and outstanding educational outcomes.
At the heart of our mission is a passion for empowering every child. We foster inclusive, aspirational environments where diversity fuels innovation and every school retain its unique ethos and independence. Each academy, led by a substantive Headteacher, is deeply rooted in its community, supported by the collective strength and resources of the Trust.
Beyond our academies, The Boleyn Trust plays a pivotal role in the wider educational landscape through our Teaching School Hub, one of 87 designated by the Department for Education. This hub supports 238 schools across Barking & Dagenham, Havering, and Newham, sharing expertise and fostering excellence in education, even for schools outside our Trust. Our capacity to uplift schools in challenging circumstances underscores our leadership in driving systemic improvement.
Our pride in who we are and what we do runs deep. The Boleyn Trust’s inclusive culture and diverse perspectives fuel our success, positioning us as a true leader in England’s educational landscape. We invite you to join us, to lead with vision, and to shape a future where every child thrives.
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