Director of Education

Tenacitas Trust, Southend On Sea, SS9 5UU

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026

• Closing date

  19 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 December 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: Competitive dependent on experience
• Additional allowances:

  Competitive dependent on experience

Director of Education job summary

About Tenacitas Trust

Tenacitas Trust is a growing and ambitious multi academy trust built on the values of Nurture Potential, Unite Community, Empower Success and Champion Tenacity. We are a trust that believes in high standards, a calm and disciplined culture, and the power of strong relationships with pupils, staff and families.

Our schools retain their individual character and community identity while benefiting from shared expertise, strong leadership frameworks and a clear educational philosophy. We believe in doing things properly, supporting people to thrive, and building systems that allow teachers and leaders to focus on what matters most: the quality of education.

We are not a top-down trust. We are a trust that empowers schools while ensuring consistency, clarity and excellence across all areas of provision. Tenacitas Trust is at an exciting stage of growth, with further schools expected to join in the coming years. This is a trust with momentum, ambition and a genuine commitment to raising standards across the region.

About the Role: Director of Education

The Director of Education is a key senior leader within Tenacitas Trust and provides educational leadership across all trust schools. The role ensures that every school delivers high quality teaching, strong behaviour and culture, effective safeguarding and a curriculum rooted in the trust’s standards and values.

The Director of Education leads headteachers, school improvement, oversees the trust’s educational quality assurance framework, delivers trust wide CPD, and ensures that trust frameworks are enacted with clarity and consistency. The role leads teacher development and professional learning, ensures strong safeguarding and SEND provision, and oversees leadership development, coaching models and teacher training partnerships.

This is a high influence role for a leader who brings strategic judgement, calm authority, educational depth, disciplined communication and the ability to build capacity across multiple schools. It is a role for someone who can work in partnership with the CEO, take decisive responsibility for educational standards, and contribute significantly to the next phase of trust development.

Why Join Tenacitas Trust

You will shape the educational direction of a trust in a critical stage of growth.

• You will line manage committed and ambitious headteachers and leaders who want to improve.
• You will lead a innovative, coherent and well-defined school improvement model.
• You will work within a trust culture that values clarity, evidence, professionalism and integrity.
• You will join a trust that empowers its leaders and invests in professional learning.
• You will play a central role in due diligence and onboarding of new schools.
• You will influence trust strategy at every level and work closely with the CEO and Board.
• You will be part of a team that genuinely cares about pupils, staff and community impact.

Tenacitas Trust is committed to being a trust where leaders can do their best work, where children are safe and successful, and where professional standards sit alongside humanity and warmth.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking an outstanding educational leader with the credibility and expertise to lead improvement across multiple schools. The successful candidate will bring:

• Significant senior leadership experience at headteacher, executive headteacher or equivalent level.
• A strong track record of raising standards, improving culture and securing strong behaviour.
• Deep knowledge of curriculum, teaching, assessment, inclusion and safeguarding.
• The ability to hold leaders to account with clarity, fairness and professional discipline.
• Emotional steadiness, political neutrality and a calm, values led approach.
• The ability to lead trust wide CPD, teacher development, ITT partnerships and ECT induction.
• The capacity to quality assure multiple schools using consistent frameworks and evidence.
• Strong communication skills, professional integrity and the ability to work closely with the CEO.
• Warmth, professionalism and the ability to build positive relationships across the trust.

This is a role for someone who is ambitious for children, serious about standards and confident in leading with both clarity and care.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please submit:

A completed application form.

A supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the job description and person specification.

If you wish to arrange an informal conversation with the Chief Executive Officer, please contact clerk@tenacitas.co.uk

Key Dates

Advert live: 1st December 2025
Closing date: 19th December 2025

We will review applications as they are received and reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.

Start date: April 2026 or latest September 2026

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

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

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 Tenacitas Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eastwood-park-academy-trust

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