School Improvement Advisor (Consultant)

REMUNERATION: £450 per day Consultancy contract, initial 2-year term

RESPONSIBLE TO: Strategy Group for Gloucester Schools’ Partnership

DAYS: Minimum of 12 days per cluster per year (3 days per school), plus 1½ days for strategic planning with GSP Strategy Group across the 2 years (with some flexibility/multiple clusters for the right candidate)  

CLOSING DATE: Monday 5th November 2018 at 9.00am  

INTERVIEW DATE: Monday 12th November 2018   

The Gloucester Schools’ Partnership (GSP) is recruiting experienced School Improvement Advisors (SIAs) to drive its rigorous new School Improvement Programme.  

This exciting opportunity is a pioneering step in primary school improvement in Gloucester City. Your role will be critical in delivering a more robust and challenging method of holding schools to account and ensuring continued school improvement.  

With current, in-depth knowledge of the OfSTED inspection framework and practices, you will work with a cluster(s) of Headteachers to deliver evidence-based assessments of their schools’ performance and communicate clear and measurable strategies for implementing the required improvements to the relevant stakeholders, in order to raise standards and support preparations for inspections. In partnership with the GSP Strategy Group, you will provide clear needs analysis, strategic support and review; brokering the relevant support and resources for improvement.

The successful candidate will have recent experience of Primary Headship, experience of leading schools in challenging circumstances  and demonstrable experience of securing successful improvement.

Founded in 2008, the Gloucester Schools' Partnership (GSP) is an alliance of 39 Infant, Junior and Primary Schools in Gloucester.  The schools work collaboratively to raise the attainment, aspirations and life chances of all the children in the Partnership.

PURPOSE:

The Gloucester Schools’ Partnership (GSP) requires consultant School Improvement Advisors as part of its new School Improvement Programme, which will include a systematic framework of objective performance measurement, needs analysis and strategic support and review.    

Each School Improvement Advisor will be responsible for working with an allocated cluster of GSP Infant, Junior and/or Primary schools to ensure effective management for continued school improvement; including compliance with OfSTED and DfE.    

This GSP programme will be delivered through evidence-based assessment, robust challenge and quality assurance of systems and processes; all supported by sound, constructive advice and brokered support. 

Where applicants have the capacity to do so, they may assume the role of SIA for more than one cluster. 

Main roles and accountabilities of SIAs:    

• Work with the GSP Strategy Group to agree the methodology and processes that will underpin the School Improvement Programme;  

• Work with the Headteachers of GSP Schools within the allocated cluster to agree the current performance of the school, precisely agreeing priorities for improvement;  

• Provide appropriate challenge and support for Headteachers, Teachers and Governors;  

• Analyse and provide an objective review of the performance data of the schools, benchmarking against both national and relevant local performance information; 

• Liaise with the GSP Strategy Group to broker training, support and collaborative working to expedite the improvements identified; 

• Support and work towards the aim that all schools are judged to be at least Good in OfSTED;  

• Use detailed knowledge of the inspection framework and practices, to improve the standards in schools and support preparations for OfSTED inspections;  

• Identify areas of achievement and best practice within the cluster that can be shared, while still respecting each school’s personality and individuality.

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