Job details
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £40000.0000 - £50000.0000 per annum
Talent, Learning and EDI Specialist job summary
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Location: Hybrid - 3 days per week from our London office (W12 7TF) and two days home based
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52.14 weeks per year
Contract: Permanent
Start date: December 2024
If your passion is for people, we want you to join us.
We're looking for a skilled Talent, Learning and EDI Specialist to join our team at Lift Schools. We are building a network of excellent schools across England. Excellent schools need excellent leaders, alongside teachers, and support teams to deliver the very best for our children and young people. To make this happen, you will be at the heart of Lift Schools' talent team, working hand in glove with our Chief Talent Officer, Head of Teacher Development, Head of Leadership Development, our coaching faculty and HR team. This role is key to us establishing Lift Schools as the model to the sector for professional development, talent development and management.
Your skills and experience will help transform our culture.
We are in a rapidly changing world where we will need to support our young people and teams to embrace new ways of working, frontier technologies and broadening digital access. To meet our ambitions requires us to become a learning organisation. This role will lead on our professional development offer with a focus on line management, interpersonal and people skills, regulatory training and the needs of our central team.
We are partnering with Google by becoming the 'world's first' in the education sector to embed artificial intelligence into the tools we use every day. We can see the potential for personalised learning to transform the outcomes for our young people and staff. This role will play an active role in the development of our learning approach, system and offer.
The role will actively support our new talent forums enabling the building and development of our talent pools in order to deliver our objectives and to drive a high-performance culture. The role will be instrumental in making an impact across the talent life cycle, from onboarding and induction onwards, so that we can become an employer of choice - somewhere where the best people strive to join and thrive when they're with us.
We would love to hear from you if you:
* have a significant interest in learning, talent management and organisation development
* are great at working collaboratively, diagnosing solutions, thinking creatively and delivering change
* are interested in the creative use of technology to make an impact
* believe that employees should be treated as adults, consumers and human beings - not numbers - this is about really thinking through how we support and engage our people
* want to build your career in people/HR with access to great professional development, world class partners and investment in your own professional and career development
* want to drive radical change in one of the largest educational organisations in the country.
* believe that you can put developing talented people at the centre of everything our network does, so that every single one of our children receives a truly excellent education.
Ready to apply? Get in touch below. We can't wait to hear from you!
The role is due to commence as soon as possible. This is a full time, permanent position. Early applications are strongly encouraged as we will be reviewing and interviewing suitable candidates as they apply.
Closing date: 22 November 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About Kingsley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 980 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
Lift Kingsley is a thriving 11–18 secondary school rooted in the local community, focused on developing knowledge, ambition, and kindness. Staff at Kingsley are collaborative, well-supported, and deeply invested in our shared vision for student success.
Lift Kingsley is rated 'Good' by Ofsted in all areas and is proudly part of Lift Schools. Since 2019, the academy has made rapid and impressive progress, reflected in significant academic improvements and growing student numbers across all year groups. With a culture of high expectations and no excuses, we are unapologetically ambitious for every student.
Our mission is to deliver academic excellence through a broad, balanced and aspirational curriculum that prepares students for success—whether that’s at top universities like Oxford and King’s College, or in high-quality careers supported by our strong employer partnerships. Beyond the classroom, students benefit from a rich extra-curricular offer designed to build skills, confidence and ambition.
Our Culture
We are committed to disruption-free classrooms, where teachers can teach and students can learn without compromise. At the heart of our school is our ‘DNA’, a set of shared values that guide all we do:
Walk the Talk – We model the standards we expect
High Expectations – We never lower the bar for anyone
No Excuses – We believe every student can succeed
Outstanding Learning – Excellent teaching is our core purpose
WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
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