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  • Start date details

    April 2025 or earlier

  • Closing date

    16 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    23 September 2024

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Full time

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Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Salary (Competitive): Commensurate with previous experience

Director of Secondary Standards job summary

Director of Secondary Standards

BMAT

Location: Harlow, Essex and schools and hybrid options

Salary: Highly competitive commensurate with previous experience

Start date: April 2025 or earlier

You are an excellent leader; we are a top performing Trust. Together, we can create truly exceptional schools.

BMAT Education is seeking to appoint a determined, innovative and exceptional Director of Secondary Standards from April 2025 or earlier. As Director of Secondary Standards, you will have responsibility for developing and delivering on an exceptional secondary strategy, ensure effective delivery of school improvement as well as lead on the strategy, organisation and facilitation of high-quality professional development opportunities, networks, and programmes for secondary academies.

We are driven by the ambition to be the best. We believe exceptional leaders create exceptional schools; they transform lives and shape the future of every student. Our trust currently oversees seven secondary academies and five primary academies, all mainly located in Harlow with other locations in Newham and Stansted. BMAT runs a community of schools which provide an outstanding education for every individual attending a Trust school. Our schools will be places of aspiration, where individuals matter and confidence flourishes so that achievement for all is outstanding. BMAT’s vision is to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent our children from becoming confident, high achieving and independent individuals

About You

Dynamic, inspiring and highly effective, the successful candidate will shape this new role and make it their own, promoting the highest educational standards. You will match and surpass what has been achieved so far, creating an environment that promotes academic and wider personal achievement. You will be a highly successful school leader. You will have made a significant difference to school improvement and provided a strong contribution to a school, its leadership, student outcomes and ethos. In addition, excellent communication skills and confidence to develop rich partnerships with school leaders, operational colleagues and Trustees will be essential.

We are always interested keen to hear from strong leaders. If you’d like to find out more about the role and the support you’ll receive from BMAT, then we’d be delighted to hear from you. To arrange a confidential and informal conversation, please contact our recruitment partners, Propelo, on 01273 222877 or email bmat@propelo.co.uk.

To access the recruitment pack and for details on how to apply, please visit: https://bmat.our-careers.co.uk. Candidates must address the person specification in no more than 1,000 words.

Close date for applications: Wednesday 16th October, 9am.

Interviews: Thursday 24th October and Friday 25th October 2024

BMAT is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Commitment to safeguarding

All staff are responsible for the safeguarding and wellbeing of pupils and must follow BMAT guidance and policies. Burnt Mill Academy Trust Directors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

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About Bmat Education

Type
Multi-academy trust

Schools, teachers and pupils freed to succeed.

These few words sum up what BMAT is about. We are a growing multi-academy trust supporting primary and secondary schools across Essex and East London.

We started as a team of educationalists who succeeded in turning around the fortunes of Burnt Mill Academy in Harlow between 2010 - 2012. Since that time, we have built up a regional schools trust that is committed to the following:

‘No limits’ attitude towards children'. We believe that no child should be limited by where they’ve come from; that every child within the

BMAT family deserves the chance to move on from where they are now to somewhere better. This belief – this attitude – is a non-negotiable for us here at BMAT.

Letting our teachers truly teach. We believe in letting our teachers do what they’re best at – teach. Our experience is that a strict scheme of work and carbon copy approach doesn’t work. Why? Because, ultimately, instinctive teaching is the kind of teaching that will inspire a child to see and discover new possibilities.

Local schools with local personalities. We are not in the business of making every school in our network look like each other. In fact, we

celebrate the personality and character of each school that joins our network. Local schools by nature have local personalities – and we aren’t afraid of that.

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