Director of Education - Accomplish Multi Academy Trust

Accomplish Multi Academy Trust Limited, Wakefield, WF2 0NP

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 April 2026

• Closing date

  29 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L26-L28

What skills and experience we're looking for

Accomplish MAT is seeking an exceptional Director of Education to join our Trust at a pivotal moment in our journey. Working alongside our CEO, Trustees, and school leaders, you will play a crucial role in shaping the educational direction of our family of schools.

As Director of Education, you will:

• Drive high standards of teaching, learning and curriculum across our schools.
• Inspire and develop leaders at every level, ensuring sustainable improvement.
• Lead with vision, courage, and compassion to secure the very best outcomes for our children.
• Work strategically to grow a strong, collaborative MAT culture built on trust and innovation.
• Shape and lead professional development across the Trust, including the delivery of our Accomplishing Great Things Together programmes.
• Lead on some of our English Hub programmes
• Extend your influence nationally through the Jerry Clay English Hub, supporting excellence in early reading and literacy well beyond our Trust.

This is a rare opportunity to lead both within our MAT and on the wider educational stage -making a lasting difference not just in schools, but in children’s lives.

What the school offers its staff

We are a Trust founded on a vision of excellence for all, where every child— no matter their starting point—deserves the highest quality, holistic education that nurtures not only academic achievement but character, creativity, and confidence.

Our vision is to educate, empower and inspire generations of children through a network of outstanding schools recognised locally, regionally and nationally as benchmarks of teaching, learning and holistic education. Our principles are rooted in ensuring that every child makes extraordinary progress in all areas, achieves exceptional standards and fulfils their huge potential in schools where best practice is the norm.

We believe in three core Values that shape who we are and how we work:

• We empower each other to work hard and accomplish greatness — striving for excellence in all that we do; promoting teamwork, creativity, accountability, and high achievement; building partnerships that elevate us all.

• We celebrate uniqueness — valuing diversity and inclusion; recognising and promoting the unique qualities of both children and adults; fostering individuality, innovation and resilience.

• We care deeply about each other — holding high expectations for all; ensuring that every child and every staff member is supported, safe, seen and nurtured; valuing wellbeing, community, and collaboration.

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.

In this role, your challenge—and opportunity—will be to lead with rigour, integrity and imagination.

We are looking for a leader who is:

• Strategic and forward-thinking, able to set and articulate an ambitious vision for education across multiple schools, and to anticipate and respond proactively to challenges and opportunities in the education landscape.

• Experienced in school leadership, with a proven track record of driving school improvement, raising standards, leading teams, and delivering excellent outcomes. “Excellence is at the heart of everything we do.”

• Dynamic and inspirational, capable of motivating staff and students alike; someone who leads by example, fosters innovation, and refuses to settle for “good enough.”

• Values-aligned, someone who will uphold and embody our commitment to empowerment, to celebrating uniqueness, and to caring deeply—for children, staff, and communities.

The successful candidate will be pivotal in ensuring that Accomplish MAT does not just meet high standards, but sets them. You will lead the development and implementation of systems and practices to ensure consistency, excellence and continuous improvement—always putting children at the centre.

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.

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About Accomplish Multi Academy Trust Limited

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: recruitment@amat.org.uk
• Phone number: 01924303665
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/accomplish-multi-academy-trust-limited

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