- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 255 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Meadows Primary School website
Regional Education Leader
More than one location, Avanti Schools Trust18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L28 - L32
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Location would be between Bishop’s Stortford and Redbridge
Avanti Schools Trust seeks a visionary and values-driven Regional Education Leader to join our education team. This role is central to our mission, advancing educational excellence, character formation, and spiritual insight across our schools.
Through data-led insights and strategic collaboration, you will shape the educational experience for all children and young people, with a focus on supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils, while inspiring and empowering school teams to achieve remarkable outcomes.
You will ensure rigorous safeguarding practices, support school leaders to foster strong learning environments, and champion continuous improvement across all our schools.
Join us to make a profound impact across our regions and help shape the future of education within Avanti.
You can find out more below with this brief introduction message from our CEO Designate – James Biddulph:
youtu.be/adST3tpqH3Y
This position requires an in-school presence of 75-80% during term time.
Interviews
Interviews will take place on the Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June.
We will have two online open days on Wednesday 21st May – 17:00-17:45 and Monday 2nd June – 8:45-9:30 where you will be given the opportunity to meet with the CEO Designate. If interested in attending, please contact the Talent Acquisition team.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the Talent team to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
Core Responsibilities
- Ethos and Culture: Promote Avanti virtues and spiritual ethos across schools, ensuring cultural alignment and positioning AST as a leader in educational excellence and innovation.
- Safeguarding: Oversee and evolve safeguarding practices, providing guidance to school leaders to ensure compliance and a strong safeguarding culture.
- Educational Quality: Support leaders in delivering a relationship-based, inclusive education with ambitious curricula, aiming for top-tier school performance by 2029.
Leadership and Development
- Standards and Performance: Lead rigorous appraisal and support processes to drive improvement, analyse school data, and build leadership capacity within the trust.
- Team Development: Foster a supportive, ethical work environment, manage staff effectively, and champion professional development, CPD, and high-quality leadership.
Operational Management
- Finance and Governance: Collaborate on budget setting, report to Trustees, and ensure transparent, impact-focused use of resources, strengthening accountability in trust operations.
- System Leadership: Act as an ambassador for Avanti, creating networks and partnerships to enhance the trust’s educational, social, and community impact.
What are we looking for?
- Qualified teacher status
- Primary School experience
- Evidence of young person-centred thinking and practice with an attitude that every young person has the capability to progress and achieve
- Detailed research-informed knowledge of key strategies for raising young people’s achievement and advancing effective teaching and learning
- An excellent understanding of the schools’ sector and education more broadly
- Confidence and knowledge of child-safeguarding issues
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
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.
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About the schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
School Details
Avanti Meadows Primary School
Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 464 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
Avanti Brook Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 67 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Brook Primary School website
Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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