Director: EIP (Education Improvement Partnership)

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in this important post for the secondary phase in Leicester City.

The EIP was established in 2006 as a facilitated partnership of the secondary and special schools in Leicester City, to raise standards and improve the outcomes for children and young people in Leicester.

The EIP develops and shares best practice and provides support and challenge to member schools. It provides a number of facilitated forums for Heads and other staff in schools to share knowledge and experience, to discuss and agree responses to concerns and issues and to celebrate and consolidate successes.

The EIP is funded by subscription by member schools and is responsible and accountable to member schools. In the more distant past the EIP has been commissioned and received funding for project management and would seek similar opportunities in the future.

The EIP has office and access to meeting rooms at the Soar Valley training Centre on the site of Soar Valley College. EIP staff are employed through Crown Hills Community College which also holds the budget for the Partnership.

The EIP operates as a very responsive and flexible organisation, providing the capacity for Heads to deploy to meet the many, often unforeseen, needs that emerge during a school year. The activities of the EIP are determined by the member schools, particularly by Head teachers and Principals and those activities tend to have different foci every year.

The Leicester Secondary Education Improvement Partnership, employs 

· a Director 

· PA

· In addition there is additional part time financial support from Crown Hills and part time admin support.

We are seeking a Director, who passionately believes in the values and aims of the EIP and who will provide outstanding leadership and management capacity for the partnership; someone who is innovative, creative and highly skilled in in not only facilitating collaborative working but also representing and being an advocate for schools in a wide range of settings. The successful applicant will have excellent self - direction and time management skills and be entrepreneurial in seeking opportunities to improve outcomes and procedures for member schools. The Director will be very flexible, be able to balance the strategic and operational needs of the post and be sensitive to and anticipate the needs of member schools. The Director role is a very privileged position, as member schools place a very high degree of trust in the post; the holder needs to earn that trust and demonstrate very high levels of tact, integrity and discretion. 

If you have the skills and experience within a school, the belief in the power of partnership and the drive and resilience to move the EIP forward, we would welcome your application for this post.

Please forward completed applications by email to jamey@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk

Yours sincerely 

Marius Carney

(Chair of EIP)