Director of Standards

Venn Academy Trust, Beverley Road, HU10 6FE

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  20 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  26 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £113,644.00 - £131,576.00 Annually (FTE) L33 - L39

Director of Standards job summary

We are looking for an exceptional leader to join our multi academy trust, as a Director of Standards.

This role provides an opportunity for experienced and ambitious leaders to play a central role in the next stage of development for Venn Academy Trust. The organisation is entering a period of continued growth and is strengthening its executive leadership capacity to ensure that schools across the trust benefit from strong improvement support while maintaining the highest standards of education.

The Director of Standards will lead the trust’s quality assurance and inspection readiness framework, ensuring that the organisation maintains an accurate understanding of school performance and that all schools are supported and challenged to achieve strong outcomes for pupils.

For further information, please see the accompanying recruitment pack.

Our Multi Academy Trust is a group of inspirational and aspirational mainstream and specialist schools in Yorkshire whose main objective is to ensure that all pupils make exceptional progress through the development of outstanding staff.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Simon Witham, CEO by emailing info@vennacademytrust.org or telephone on 01482 505030

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants

Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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 Venn Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Venn Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/venn-academy-trust

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