CEO and Executive Principal
Chingford Foundation School
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Salary:
- L40 – L44 (£113,266 - £123,282)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2023, or earlier based on availability
- Apply by:
- 4 July 2022
Job overview
Pay Scale: L40 – L44 (£113,266 - £123,282)
Responsible to: Board of Trustees
Responsible for: Senior Vice Principal, Vice Principals, Trust Business & Finance Director,
Trust HR Manager, PA to the CEO
Start date: January 2023, or earlier based on availability
Location: Outer London
Chingford Academies Trust (CAT) is seeking to appoint an inspirational CEO and Executive Principal to oversee and lead our two successful partner schools based in north east London. This appointment follows the retirement of our highly respected current leader.
CAT’s vision is to develop young people who are caring, resourceful and inspired to succeed by providing a safe, inclusive and disciplined environment. Our schools seek respectively to provide “a firm foundation for life” and aspire to be “a community where students strive to be the best version of themselves”. We care deeply about delivering the highest quality of education for our students and we are looking to appoint a leader who will champion new approaches which are proven to add value to students’ progress in learning and wellbeing and staff professional development and wellbeing. There is an ambitious MAT development plan in place, supported by Trust Strategy Objectives which relate to the outstanding characteristics that we want each of our schools to demonstrate. These plans will support your leadership on the journey to outstanding.
The successful candidate will:
- have a significant and successful proven track record as a CEO, executive headteacher or headteacher
- build on our strengths and direct further success through laying out a vision for the Trust
- be an inspirational leader working closely with trustees and staff at all levels
- have experience of demonstrating leadership in the attainment and progress of all learners and in particular disadvantaged students and students with SEND
- have a natural problem solving ability and a desire to support and develop staff, setting the highest standards in teaching
- have proven and strong financial acumen
- have a flair for effective community engagement
- be experienced in leading a Sixth Form
- be ambitious to build the Trust and know what this will require
The Trust offers:
- highly motivated staff and students
- effective strategic direction and challenge
- generous remuneration
- the opportunity to construct and deliver a vision for a growing Trust
Appointment Process
Suitable applications will be shortlisted for interview as quickly as possible.
If you are successful, you will receive either a phone call and/or email inviting you to attend for interview. It is therefore important that you give us a daytime telephone number and/or an email address that you regularly access so that we can contact you to make the necessary arrangements if you are shortlisted.
Closing date for applications: 9.00am on Monday 4 July 2022
Selection process to take place: Thursday 7 and Friday 8 July 2022 (two day selection process)
If you require any assistance in attending for interview, please let us know the nature of that assistance in good time so that we may make appropriate arrangements.
Attached documents
About Chingford Foundation School
A warm welcome to Chingford Foundation School, part of the Chingford Academies Trust.
Our vision is to offer the highest calibre education for our students in a caring, inclusive and disciplined learning environment. Alongside our partner school, South Chingford Foundation School, we use our considerable combined resources to ensure the educational journey of our students is the best on offer. Chingford Foundation School has a long tradition of success, evidenced by our notable alumni and the popularity of the school within the community.
Our mission is to ensure that our student’s education is relevant and mindful of the challenges facing young people in a rapidly changing world. Our staff are experts in their field and committed to delivering the best that traditional teaching can offer, whilst encouraging students to question, challenge, imagine and create new thinking in the classroom.
Our student’s academic and personal growth are of equal importance. Our rich curriculum will provide opportunities for them to explore their interests, grow their unique personal qualities and undertake deep learning experiences for a successful future. We have an exceptional mix of academic rigour, well-founded values and opportunities for personal development. We aim to engage, motivate, and enrich our student’s experience and grow within them the traditional values of respect, discipline, independence, care and kindness for others. We are committed to ensuring that our students are happy, positive and successful during their time at Chingford Foundation School.
We are a strong community, creating a harmonious and purposeful learning environment. We are culturally rich, diverse and inclusive; strong relationships between all of our stakeholders are at the core of our values.
Rob Mammen
Chief Executive Officer
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