Regional Director - School Improvement (South)

Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  11 September 2026

• Closing date

  23 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: L42-L46

Regional Director - School Improvement (South) job summary

Regional Director – School Improvement (South) 

Are you a proven Head Teacher/Principal who’s as passionate about improving educational provision as you are about delivering against purpose? 

Would you relish the opportunity to perform a strategically focused role with the scope to impact across a whole region of secondaries to lead an agenda of school improvement and enhancing subject expertise? 

If so, perhaps these newly created roles within our National Education leadership team could be worth exploring as we seek to appoint 2 new Regional Directors for School Improvement in the North and South of England. 

The role 

This is a newly created role within our leadership team, with a core focus upon school improvement within your region, including leading a newly formed team of Regional Subject Experts. The role acts as a senior leadership bridge between national secondary strategy, regional leadership, academy practice and wider OCL service delivery. It carries delegated responsibility for ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into integrated regional and academy-level plans, with clear alignment between education priorities and the enabling support through National Services. This includes providing flexible Regional Director-level capacity where required by the National Director of Secondary, acting as the escalation point for nominated priority academies, leading intensive support and challenge, and ensuring wider academy improvement is aligned, resourced and effective. Curriculum implementation is delivered through a differentiated model: English and Mathematics are organised through clusters under Regional Directors, while other EBacc subjects are coordinated through the Regional Director of North/South structure. The postholder will work collaboratively with English and Mathematics Regional Leads, Regional Directors and relevant National Trust Subject Leads to ensure that curriculum support, academy-facing activity and improvement priorities at an academy and regional level are aligned across all subject areas. National curriculum leadership maintains Trust-wide coherence by setting expectations, resources and quality assurance frameworks across both delivery models.

This is a newly created role within our leadership team, with a core focus upon school improvement within your region, including leading a newly formed team of Regional Subject Experts. 

The role acts as a senior leadership bridge between national secondary strategy, regional leadership, academy practice and wider OCL service delivery. It carries delegated responsibility for ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into integrated regional and academy-level plans, with clear alignment between education priorities and the enabling support through National Services. This includes providing flexible Regional Director-level capacity where required by the National Director of Secondary, acting as the escalation point for nominated priority academies, leading intensive support and challenge, and ensuring wider academy improvement is aligned, resourced and effective. 

Curriculum implementation is delivered through a differentiated model: English and Mathematics are organised through clusters under Regional Directors, while other EBacc subjects are coordinated through the Regional Director of North/South structure. The postholder will work collaboratively with English and Mathematics Regional Leads, Regional Directors and relevant National Trust Subject Leads to ensure that curriculum support, academy-facing activity and improvement priorities at an academy and regional level are aligned across all subject areas. National curriculum leadership maintains Trust-wide coherence by setting expectations, resources and quality assurance frameworks across both delivery models.

The postholder will also deputise for the National Director of Secondary (South) as required. 

You’ll be able to view the full job description on our careers site. 

The person

We’re looking for exceptional performers to join in these two key roles, who’ll not only be able to demonstrate a proven record of success at Principal/Head level or above in a secondary school or academy, but also show the ability to develop and implement strategies for positively impacting quality standards, culture, leadership and student outcomes across multiple operations. You will be a creative and strategic thinker with a pragmatic and practical mindset, highly effective in your ability to forge effective collaborations and partnerships and a strong desire to make a difference. Core evidence we’ll be seeking will include:

• Significant senior leadership experience within the secondary phase, including leading curriculum implementation, teaching and learning, inclusion, attendance or behaviour priorities.
• Experience of providing senior leadership, support and challenge beyond one academy/school, including leading improvement activity, managing risk and influencing Principals or senior leaders across a cluster, region or equivalent system.
• Ability to act as a senior escalation point for priority schools requiring intensive support, using evidence, professional judgement and Principal-level credibility to diagnose need, mobilise support, challenge practice and secure rapid improvement.
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into integrated implementation plans that are understood and acted upon by academy, regional and central service teams, including planning across inclusion, safeguarding, SEND, behaviour, attendance, curriculum, workforce, finance, performance intelligence and operational delivery.
• Credibility and experience to coach, support and constructively challenge Principals, senior leaders and specialist colleagues in a values-led and evidence-informed way, including diagnosing priorities, agreeing action plans, strengthening leadership capacity and securing measurable improvement.
• Strong knowledge of effective curriculum implementation, pedagogy, SEND and inclusion, attendance and behaviour practice within the secondary phase.
• Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and attitudes to use of authority and maintaining discipline.
• Ability to travel between trust academies

Reasons to apply:

• You will have the opportunity to continue your learning and further develop your educational expertise
• This is true opportunity to make your mark in a newly created role that you’ll help shape and drive meaningful impact
• You will be part of the wide and varied Oasis peer group of educational leaders committed to delivering against our collective purpose 
• You will expand your network and accelerate your career prospects in a role that combines leadership and mentoring with influence and knowledge sharing. A rewarding combination that directly transforms the life chances for our students.
• This is a unique opportunity to ensure that all our students have a world class education provision.
• We do not expect you to do this alone. You will enjoy the support and challenge of National leadership and the wider OCL education team. By being part of a family of Oasis academies, you will work alongside expert leaders in their field and benefit from a strong support network and partnership.

Oasis Community Learning is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours, which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Take the next step in your career and apply now by clicking on the link which will include the full job description & person specification.

Note: Role closes on 23rd September at 9.00am. Interviews will take place on 28th September 

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.

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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 Oasis Community Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Oasis Community Learning website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-community-learning

The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.

We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.

Together, Oasis staff aspire to:

Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students

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