HR Director
Aldridge Education
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 27 September 2018
Job overview
This is an exciting role within a relatively new multi academy trust (MAT). The HR Director has responsibility for all HR based activity within the MAT from both an operational and strategic perspective. With the opportunity to create regional structures in our north and south regions of operation, the HR team led by the HR Director will manage and lead a high performing, economic but efficient and effective HR operation to support the MAT’s overall strategic aims.
In order to do so, the HR Director will build credible stakeholder relationships and be able to influence at all levels of the organisation, as well as the drive and ambition to develop the HR service to be the best that it can through robust management and leadership of the HR Team and its activities.
About us
Aldridge Education was established as a national multi-academy trust in 2016. Our entrepreneurial community schools are focused on their young people succeeding in reaching their potential. Our goal is that, by the age of 25, all Aldridge graduates will have experienced an outstanding and enjoyable education and be able to sustain the life of their choice. They will be independent, thriving economically and making a real, positive contribution to their communities.
As a new and growing multi academy trust we currently employ around 550 people. This is an exciting time for us as we build our systems, policies and processes as a national organisation.
We operate our schools in two regions and currently have four academies in Darwen, Lancashire, a UTC in Salford, two academies in the Brighton area and an academy in London. We have plans for expansion within our regions over the next few years.
To apply
Please submit your CV and a letter of application demonstrating how you meet the selection criteria by 9.00am on 28th September to HR@aldridgeeducation.org. Please note we will review applications on a weekly basis.
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About Aldridge Education
- Aldridge Education
- 8 City Road
- London
- EC1Y 2AA
- United Kingdom
Aldridge Education
In joining an Aldridge school you’ll be joining a family who share a strong sense of values. We are passionate about attaining the highest standards of achievement and welfare for all of our students. We are unafraid to challenge conventional thinking and work collaboratively with all the schools in our family and are committed to securing for our students the opportunities, experiences and networks that will help them to succeed, be ‘life ready’, ‘work ready’ and independent. In addition to this we encourage sharing best practice and learning from others within our family of schools and beyond.
We are extremely proud that our schools have won numerous awards which showcase their achievement and facilities in recent years, just a few examples of which are:
• Portslade Aldridge Community Academy won Community School of the Year 2016, at the annual awards hosted by The Argus. In addition to this it emerged victorious by winning the STEMNET STEM Club Award 2015 and was awarded the Charity Achievement of the Year 2015 in The Argus Youth in Action Awards.
• Darwen Aldridge Community Academy was East Lancashire School of the Year 2015 and was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education. In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”.
• Brighton and Portslade Aldridge Community Academies’ joint Digital Media Academy won the Academy Partnership Award 2016 at the National Education Business Awards.
• UTC@harbourside’s riverside campus won a Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2016 for the quality and excellence of its design.
Our developing national multi-academy trust is organised in regional clusters to ensure that our schools retain their individual community identities, and that we can attract and support new schools to strengthen the family. Each school has its own Local Governing Committee including parent and staff representatives to ensure the local community is engaged with the academy and that it is properly meeting its community’s needs.
Working together as a family of schools supported by a central team means that we can:
• Grow and retain our key leaders and teachers
• Provide greater opportunities for staff secondments and promotions
• Share curriculum development and specialist resources, such as subject leaders, across our schools locally and nationally
• Give our school leaders more time to focus on school improvement and the classroom by pooling and improving school support functions
What do our teachers see as the advantages of working in an Aldridge Education school?
“We have received excellent coaching support and advice from experienced individuals. Aldridge has provided support when capacity/time has not been available internally.”
“It’s about the expertise and support received, being part of a brand which has clear goals and vision, being part of an educational organisation which is so innovative and forward thinking.”
Sarah Dench relocated from Brighton to London after teaching at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy for five years and knew she wanted to stay working at an Aldridge school. In September 2015 she joining Kensington Aldridge Academy, you can read her story in full here.
If you are interested in becoming part of the Aldridge family then please take a look at our opportunities.
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