Assistant Director Education and Achievement

Based in Shrewsbury, with remote and agile working required 

Shropshire Council is seeking an experienced leader to manage a broad portfolio within the Education and Achievement Directorate.  This is an exciting new position which provides a real opportunity to shape the role setting out a new vision for education in Shropshire. 

Shropshire Council is keen to reposition education and learning, and recognises its crucial role in recovery from the Pandemic. We want to ensure that our children and young people can reach their full potential through good schools, effective SEN, early years and post 16 provision.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Children’s Services, you will be a key member of the directorate's senior leadership team.  Shropshire Council has a new leadership team and as part of this you will be expected to engage across the wider strategic development of the Council and its priorities.

You will have an understanding of schools and school improvement gained at local or national level including the SEND agenda. You will value and nurture close working relationships with our school and business communities and seek to build on the good work achieved to date through genuine collaboration, support and challenge. Above all you will provide an inspirational educational vision for Shropshire.

Shropshire is the second largest inland county and one of the most rural places in the UK with some 325,000 residents. Its population and economy is centred on the historic county town of Shrewsbury, which is close to the centre of the county, while other towns include Oswestry in the northwest, Bridgnorth in the southeast and Ludlow in the south. The county also has many market towns, including Whitchurch, Market Drayton and Ellesmere in the north, Shifnal in the east, and Church Stretton in the south.

Yet we are close enough and connected to the major cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester and to shopping and leisure destinations in Cheshire and Staffordshire, as well as a direct rail link to London.

If you believe you have the skills and experience to play a key role for the Council in delivering our priorities, then we would like to hear from you.

In return we offer a competitive salary, attractive annual leave entitlement and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Interviews for the post are scheduled to take place on 06 July 2021