Director of Sport
Malcolm Arnold Academy, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 6JW3 days remaining to apply
Closing date
16 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
9 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,145.00 - £64,691.00 Annually (FTE) L7 - L10, FTE £60145, - £64,691 per annum
Director of Sport job summary
We are looking for an excellent Director of Sport to join our PE team at Malcolm Arnold Academy. As a school, we are driven to provide an education that is ambitious, broad, and knowledge-rich; one that equips our pupils to live full, rich, and successful lives.
We strive to provide our young people with access to a world-class education and enrichment experiences. Our students benefit from a wealth of opportunities to develop, learn, and lead, in the classroom and on cultural visits, in the sports arena, in music, performance and arts. The education and experiences we offer equip our young people with the leadership skills, team spirit, resilience, and confidence to become outstanding citizens.
About the role
You will:
Lead the PE Department in delivering a world-class education which is transformational in its impact.
Be accountable for student progress and attainment levels within the subject area.
Ensure that strategies are in place to maximise levels of attainment in sport for all students.
Take responsibility for curriculum development in sport across the Academy.
Oversee the sports enrichment programme and fixtures for all year groups.
Take responsibility for and take significant part in co-curricular sport, lunchtimes, after school.
Manage the Sports Enrichment Officers (SEOs) in their academy roles.
Develop and enhance the practice of other members of staff in the subject area.
Contribute to the strategic leadership of the Academy, developing, implementing, and evaluating systems, policies, and procedures.
Actively promote the academy and liaise with outside agencies as necessary, representing the Academy or DRET as appropriate
Maintain a teaching timetable, modelling outstanding practice in terms of classroom teaching, preparation, marking and assessment.
This is a full-time position.
About our Academy
At Malcolm Arnold, we ensure that all teachers can draw on the sources of scholarly authority and reservoir of thought and practice that have been developed within their specialist subject communities though our Trust- wide subject communities.
This involves engagement for teachers with their wider subject education community through subject associations, subject education journals, subject-specific CPD on curriculum development and teaching. It also involves refreshing and constant renewal of subject knowledge, through reading and discussing scholarship, engaging in contemporary debates, and developing our own practice as teachers.
Subject communities are central to Malcolm Arnold’s vision for curriculum and teacher development, whereby each subject community is made up of subject specialist teachers deeply engaged with curricular questions, renewing and holding ownership of the Trust-wide curriculum and sustaining their own subject expertise.
Through Trust-wide subject community meetings and in-school department meetings, all subject teachers have responsibility and involvement with the Trust-wide curriculum development.
We work collaboratively in our curriculum decision-making, to draw upon collective expertise and minimise unnecessary workload.
Salary & Benefits
L7 - L10, £60,145 - £64,691 FTE per annum
Access to Teachers’ Pension Scheme
CPD including Senior Leader and Knowledge Development Courses
Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in Education
Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
Awards and Recognition Scheme
Flexible working patterns
Benefits Platform
Who we are looking for
- A colleague who loves their subject and wants to inspire students to learn and understand the most powerful knowledge in the curriculum.
- A colleague who is committed to developing pedagogy and curriculum in P.E.
- Someone with a very strong record of professional development.
- A colleague with evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance.
- A teacher who has a degree in their relevant subject and experience of a leadership role in a secondary school.
- Someone with proven experience in driving an ambitious and wide-reaching enrichment programme.
About The David Ross Education Trust
The David Ross Education Trust has grown to a network of 36 academies, incorporating primary, secondary and grammar, and special schools. We employ over 2000 people with the primary focus of raising the standards of education for 13,000 young people. Whatever your role, you should know you are contributing to achieving our vision of inspiring the next generation of young people to be the best they can in whatever they choose. Our aim is to be the country’s leading academy chain, committed to delivering the highest educational standards alongside an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment.
We are incredibly lucky to be able to work alongside outstanding organisations and individuals who are happy to share their expertise and skills in supporting the David Ross Foundation's vision to give children better life chances through access to the best education and support we can give them.
While each academy is unique, we share common goals, aspirations, values, and methods that enable us to work collaboratively and collectively to achieve our mission. We operate regional hubs, whereby academies work with other schools who are part of the Trust so we can share skills and knowledge, allowing them to benefit and learn from each other.
Apply now
To submit your application, please click on ‘apply now.’
Early applications are advised. We receive high numbers of applications for our roles and therefore have to close the vacancy prior to the closing date to review candidates' details against our job criteria before shortlisting or re-opening the vacancy.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
The David Ross Education Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
It is our objective to ensure that job applicants and staff are treated solely based on their merits, abilities, and potential. We do not discriminate against any applicants on the basis of any protected characteristics.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Malcolm Arnold Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1307 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Malcolm Arnold Academy website
Malcolm Arnold Academy is a co-educational secondary school based in Northampton, Northamptonshire, for students aged 11-18.
The school takes its name from the legendary composer Sir Malcolm Arnold. Born in Northampton in 1921, he was one of the leading figures in 20th-century classical music and helped to establish the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
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