Director of Education

Agora Learning Partnership, Watford, WD24 5JW

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP/September 2025

• Closing date

  18 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 March 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: £80,857.00 - £91,205.00 Annually (Actual) Salary: L20-L25 (£80,857 - £91,205) including London fringe.

Director of Education job summary

We are seeking an experienced leader who is a partnership builder; someone who can coach, develop and support our committed and driven senior staff in schools. They must be able to adapt their leadership style to suit both personnel and a wide range of situations. As an experienced leader, the successful candidate will also need to be able to lead and manage improvements in the Trust schools effectively, whilst valuing and harnessing the skills, knowledge and expertise of their immediate team and the teams in the schools.

This new role is designed to build the capacity of the Central Team, particularly in relation to achieving the Partnerships’ vision and aims for Academy improvement by:

- Work collaboratively to maintain the Partnership’s ethos and culture, whilst driving Trust-wide improvement.

- Line manages the Trust’s Headteachers/Executive Headteachers.

- Further develop the Partnership’s educational offer.

- Improve Academy performance and help achieve the best possible educational outcomes Partnership-wide.

- Assist with the implementation of the Partnership’s improvement strategy – the Together Strategy.

- Support Trust growth.

- Play a full and active role as a member of the Agora Learning Partnership’s Executive Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their skills and experience and to work across the Academies in the Partnership and beyond. I am looking forward to working closely with the successful candidate.

We are seeking to appoint a talented, enthusiastic and driven leader to this exciting position. The successful candidate will need to be passionate about Academy improvement whilst being committed to the Trust’s ethos and culture, particularly in relation to:

• Collaboration to improve the life chances of children
• Local decisions for local children
• Inclusion

If you believe you would make a positive addition to our supportive, professional and friendly Central Team, and you have the skills, knowledge and experience to lead Partnership-wide improvement and localised improvement in our Academies, then we look forward to receiving your application.

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

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About Agora Learning Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Agora Learning Partnership website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/agora-learning-partnership

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