Leader of Academy Improvement
University Of Chichester (Multi) Academy Trust, Chichester, PO19 6PE15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
16 September 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
19 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hrs a week 52 weeks a year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £66,857 - £ 73,040
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact on education and outcomes for our pupils, ensuring that educational standards consistently improve, and we achieve positive outcomes across our Academies?
Our vision is for all young people to be inspired by an excellent education, raising aspirations and enriching lives. We have moved to a model based on partnerships of academies, working together to meet collective targets, in the spirit that every child in our academies is everyone’s responsibility.
At the heart of this in 2023 we created the new team of Leaders of Academy Improvement within the University of Chichester Academy Trust. We are now seeking to recruit an additional team member to join us in the post of Leader of Academy Improvement with a primary focus.
The successful candidate will be part of our Academy Improvement Team consisting of other Leaders of Academy Improvement and the Head of Training and Development. You will contribute to the wider Academy Trust vision and aims and will take the lead in our academy improvement activity across a partnership of our academies and/or phases of schooling.
Working in conjunction with the Trust Senior Leadership and our innovative Education Development Team, the post holder will make an important contribution to the development of our curriculum and outcomes for pupils across our Trust academies, working in line with the Trust and School improvement plans. Ensuring that our education standards consistently improve across all our academies and that our curriculum inspires all our pupils, raises aspirations, improves attainment and enriches lives.
You will:
- Secure improvements in attainment, curriculum and pedagogy.
- Ensure our academies secure the best possible inspection outcomes. Raise standards, attainment and progress for all our pupils, but particularly those from our most under-resourced families.
- Undertake and co-ordinate quality assurance and performance review activities across the Trust, including monitoring of the curriculum, assessments and the performance of school leaders.
- Work with the Chief Executive Officer, Director of Standards and Effectiveness and Head of Training and Development to provide a cohesive delivery of the Trust Strategic educational priorities.
- Provide cover for leadership or co-leadership in any of our academies if required.
About you:
- You will have current knowledge of the National Curriculum, developments in educational research relevant to curriculum design and pedagogy and the Education Inspection Framework.
- A Degree, QTS and evidence of continual professional development.
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of assessment relevant to the phase and up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding within schools.
- Evidence of effective leadership qualities that enable effective management of change.
- Strong classroom teaching practice and successful introduction of curriculum development change.
- A specialist knowledge of SEND would be an advantage.
What the school offers its staff
As part of the University of Chichester Multi-Academy Trust you will have access to additional opportunities and benefits. You will find that each academy has a unique identity, but a shared belief in creating a positive and enriching environment, where all staff feel valued.
For your career
- An opportunity to lead across a number of academies
- A strong commitment and support for your personal leadership journey
- A strong and supportive Trust Board determined to do the best for our communities
- The opportunity to join the Trust’s Leadership Team to make a difference as we drive system improvement in a changing world
- Comprehensive central support, advice and guidance, to enable you to lead progress in curriculum and pedagogy.
To be part of something bigger
- A collaborative Trust, which inspires innovation and the motivation for leaders to influence and shape the strategy of the wider Trust and the educational landscape
- Partnership with the University of Chichester, with over 180 years of experience in the training of teachers, for research, specialist support, training and academic study
- Opportunities to work with senior leaders and academy staff across the Trust, who are committed to a shared set of values.
To make a difference
- To be part of a team that makes a real difference to the life chances of our children and young people
- Contributing to the creation of a culture and environment in which staff feel valued, are inspired and work in buildings which promote and enhance child progress and learning.
Other staff benefits
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Extensive employee assistance provision including 24/7 telephone helpline and counselling
• Lifestyle health and wellbeing programme
• Access to an extensive personal development programme
• Access to the University’s vast Library resources • Access to the National College resources
• Generous leave entitlement
• Employee Discounts platform, saving £££’s on a range of goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Eyecare Voucher Scheme
• Relocation allowance, if eligible
• Security of knowing you are joining an organisation whose sponsor has been promoting education for more than 180 years and was awarded by Ofsted, Outstanding for teacher training.
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.
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About University Of Chichester (Multi) Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- j.humphries@chi.ac.uk
Multi Academy Trust
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