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Education Director - Secondary

Competitive Salary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to join our Secondary Education Team. We work across 9 academies based in Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Peterborough and Lincolnshire, many with Post 16 provision.

The role is a combination of school improvement, executive governance and strategic system leadership. It will involve working with academy Principals, leaders and other practitioners to effectively self-evaluate and deliver high quality education provision, through robust and ambitious improvement work. It includes a Trust-wide strategic leadership responsibility, aligned to the successful candidates’ interests, skills and experience.

The role would suit individuals with detailed and up to date knowledge of secondary education and school improvement through recent successful leadership experience as a Principal or comparable adviser / improvement partner (e.g. HMI, Local Authority adviser, Systems Leader). Ideally, you will have experience across a range of school contexts, including those serving the most disadvantaged communities.

The salary will be negotiated on appointment with the successful candidate.

There may also be a relocation package available for the suitable candidate.

Overview of the role:

Education Directors are responsible for ensuring that GAT academies deliver excellent and inspiring education provision for all pupils. They provide professional challenge and support to academies, supporting leaders to effectively evaluate performance, identify priorities for improvement and plan effective change. They lead improvement and quality assurance work, as detailed in GAT’s Secondary Support and Improvement Framework, ensuring all activities, reviews and processes are completed and result in continually improving standards. They also line manage Principals and support academies through Ofsted inspections.

Our Education Directors are:

• inspirational and strategic leaders with a successful record of educational improvement
• able to build relationships quickly and effectively with colleagues and academy leaders

• able to accurately identify areas for academy development and ensure improvement plans are robust and will lead to excellence and / or bring about improvement rapidly
• able to effectively prepare academies for successful Ofsted inspections
• are able to work directly and intensively with targeted academies to bring about improvements in specific areas; for example finances, curriculum design, pupil absence, disadvantaged outcomes, progress of SEND pupils, quality of teaching etc.
• effective communicators in all forms
• able to effectively monitor standards and use quality assurance processes to accurately inform academy and trust leaders about the quality of educational performance in academies
• interested and up to date with secondary education policy, debate and practice
• able to develop and deliver improvement strategies that impact on a large number of leaders, practitioners and academies
• credible and knowledgeable in a wide range of education issues and leadership scenarios
• resilient, dynamic and keen to lead by example
• organised, hard working and able to cope with demanding workloads

For further information, or an initial discussion, about the role please contact [email protected] to arrange to speak to Sarah Mills, Chief Education Officer.