Strategic Lead for School Improvement
The Romero Catholic Academy, Coventry, CV2 2AJ9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
28 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £61,534.00 - £67,898.00 Annually (Actual)
Strategic Lead for School Improvement job summary
About The Romero Catholic Academy
The Romero Catholic Academy comprises seven primary schools and one secondary school, united by a shared Catholic ethos and commitment to excellence in education. We strive to provide outstanding learning experiences that enable every child to flourish academically, spiritually, and personally.
The Role
We are seeking an exceptional Strategic Lead for School Improvement to join our School Improvement Team. Reporting to the Executive Principal for School Improvement, this role will provide visionary leadership and strategic direction to raise standards across our family of schools.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Driving the effectiveness of teaching and learning strategies across the Academy.
- Leading curriculum development and ensuring its impact on pupil progress and attainment.
- Delivering key aspects of the School Improvement Strategy.
- Supporting new teachers through ECT support and mentorship
- Developing future teachers through strategic partnerships with training providers (SCITT providers/Universities/Apprentice providers)
What We Are Looking For
- A proven track record of school improvement and leadership within the education sector.
- Deep understanding of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment practices.
- Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing teachers at all career stages.
- Strong ability to build collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Commitment to promoting and living out the Catholic ethos and mission of the Academy.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to make a significant impact across multiple schools.
- Collaborative, values-driven environment.
- Professional development and career progression opportunities.
The Romero Catholic Academy operates a refer a friend scheme of £200 for the referrer. If you have been referred to this vacancy by a current employee, please highlight this within the section headlined "Where did you first hear of this vacancy?" on the application form. All rules relating to the referrals are provided within the TRCA Refer a Friend Policy on our website.
We are committed to safeguarding children. As part of the pre-employment process, an enhanced DBS Check, Prohibition Checks, Childcare Disqualification (where appropriate) and Online/Social media screening will be undertaken in addition to other relevant background checks. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. Safeguarding is our top priority, and we encourage all applicants to review our safeguarding and child protection policy which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our students.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
Further information about the job
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.
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- Multi-academy trust
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