Head of Governance, Compliance and Risk

Orion Education, Chislehurst, BR7 5PS

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  19 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: c£70,000
• Additional allowances:

  c£70,000

Head of Governance, Compliance and Risk job summary

At Orion Education Trust, our mission is:

To create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress and succeeds.

We are guided by our values of Trust, Kindness and Endeavour. These values shape how we lead, how we support, and how we serve our schools and communities across Bromley and Kent.

Strong governance, compliance, and risk management underpin this mission — ensuring that every decision we make is ethical, transparent, and aligned with the best interests of the children and communities we serve.

Through the Orion Community Impact Charity, we extend this commitment beyond our schools, supporting programmes that strengthen inclusion, wellbeing, and opportunity.

The postholder will act as Company Secretary and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for the Trust, ensuring all statutory, legal, and regulatory requirements are fully met. They will oversee the Trust’s complaints process, ensuring consistency, fairness, and transparency, and will also support governance across the Orion Community Impact Charity.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, the postholder will be a key source of assurance and professional advice to Trustees, Members, and senior leaders, ensuring that Orion’s governance reflects the highest standards of accountability and integrity.

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

Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.

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 Orion Education

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Orion Education website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/education-for-the-21-st-century

Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.

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