Team Creates Project Leader
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- Expired
- Salary:
- £30k FTE depending on span of skills
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2019
Job overview
As part of our work in ensuring all young people leave our academies prepared to live enterprising futures we are developing an extra-curricular version of the Team Academy programme (currently delivered as a degree programme in Universities across the world) for schools. The programme is based on the “learning by doing” model pioneered in Tiimiakatemia, Jyväskylä University of Applied Science (JAMK), Finland and more recently in, for example, Bristol Business School at the University of West of England and Newcastle Business School at the University of Northumbria.
The Team Creates Project Leader will develop workshops, engage with students and the wider community to ensure that the approach is embedded and supported outside of formal curriculum delivery time. It is also an exciting opportunity to develop your own coaching and support skills as training will be provided as part of the role.
This role is initially offered at 0.8 on a fixed term to 31 March 2020.
Please email a CV and letter of application (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining your interest in the post, how you meet the criteria and the contribution you believe you could make to Shona Nichols shona.nichols@aldridgefoundation.com by 18th of April at 12pm. We will be shortlisting on the 25th of April and interviews will be the week commencing the 29th of April.
About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy 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”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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