Chief Education Officer & Deputy CEO
Oasis Community Learning
Lambeth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 12 June 2024
Job overview
Company: Oasis Community Learning
Job title: Chief Education Officer & Deputy CEO
Job reference: SASAHC2
Closing date: 12th June 2024
Oasis Community Learning (OCL), part of the Oasis family, are searching for an outstanding Chief Education Officer & Deputy CEO, who has a vision for exceptional and inclusive education that delivers the very best for our students and their local communities.
We are looking for someone who is passionate and able to bring about innovation, who can drive educational improvement across a complex organisation, who can inspire others, and who will champion and fully embrace the Christ-centred ethos of Oasis, leading with authenticity.
This new role will work in partnership with the OCL CEO and leaders across the Oasis family to lead our family of 54 academies at an exciting phase in the life of our organisation. We are currently developing cutting-edge, inclusive, and therapeutically informed support for students through our Oasis Way of Inclusive Practice; we are embedding our innovative curriculum across our academies; we are taking a lead role in the National Institute of Teaching – providing training and nurture to teachers at all stages of their careers; we are developing holistic community support for our students and their families alongside the wider Oasis family; and much more.
The Role
We are looking for a leader who is:
- Vision-led – who will work collaboratively with the CEO and leaders across the organisation to further develop and inspire others with a cutting-edge, inclusive, and broad approach to education that is relevant to the experience of children and young people in 21st Century Britain.
- Innovative – who will drive innovation and will lead a joined-up approach to the distinctive nature of Oasis education, bringing further leadership, insight, and experience to our workaround mental health, trauma informed and therapeutic practice, inclusive practice, SEND support, community connection, vocational education, and much more.
- Strategic – who will support and challenge educational leaders across the organisation, ensuring that our broad vision translates into high-quality performance and culture; enabling our academies to make timely and sustainable improvement and supporting children and young people to thrive and reach their potential.
- Ethos-led – who will grow our inclusive culture, will have a passion to build our educational practice from the Oasis identity and ethos, and will look to harness the expertise within the wider Oasis family including in secure education, housing/homelessness, children’s/youth/community work and much more.
Further details of the key responsibilities held by this role can be found in the Job Description.
How to apply
Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Oasis Community Learning on this appointment.
Candidates should apply for this role via www.saxbam.com/appointments enclosing a cover letter and CV and using code SASAHC2. For further information about the role, telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours).
Applications should be received by noon on Wednesday 12th June 2024.
All staff are expected to be committed to safeguarding and undergo appropriate checks including an enhanced DBS.
Attached documents
About Oasis Community Learning
- Oasis Community Learning
- The Oasis Centre, 75 Westminster Bridge Road, Southwark
- London
- SE1 7HS
- United Kingdom
Oasis Community Learning has a vision to create "Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community."
Established in 2004 we have now grown into a family of 52 academies that are located in five regions of England, providing primary, secondary and all-through education. We are proud to serve over 30,000 young people, 50% of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds and 31% speak English as an additional language.
We are proud members of the Oasis Trust group of charities.
Purpose
All our academies are committed to providing a rich educational experience, ensuring that every child and young person has the opportunities that they need and deserve to fulfil their full potential.
We are dedicated to raising the educational bar for each one of our young people, and to closing the attainment gap that exists between our disadvantaged students and their more privileged classmates.
Exceptional Education
We have a record of accomplishment in delivering consistent and sustainable improvement in our academies. Since 2014, the proportion of our inspected schools that Ofsted have rated ‘Good’ or better has risen from 30% to 81%.
Each academy also benefits from being part of a Regional Improvement Network and our academies work closely with their regional colleagues to share best practice and drive improvement.
At the Heart of the Community
We operate as a family of academies in all our regions. We believe in community and aspire to build a community hub within which each academy or family of academies.
Our Hub teams (part of one of our sister charities, Oasis Community Partnerships) facilitate access to a wide range of services such as adult learning schemes, healthy living advice and activities, sports facilities, out-of-hours youth activities, debt-advice, and foodbanks amongst many others.
Ethos
Our ethos is integral to our educational provision and everything that we do – it is an expression of our character and a statement of who we are.
It consists of five key commitments:
- A passion to include everyone
- A desire to treat everyone equally, respecting differences
- A commitment to healthy and open relationships
- A deep sense of hope that things can change and be transformed
- A sense of perseverance to keep going for the long haul
The Oasis Story
Oasis Community Learning was born out of the group of Oasis Trust charities which was established in 1985 by Rev Steve Chalke MBE.
Steve’s vision was to create communities where everyone is included, contributing and reaching their God-given potential. His dream was to open a school that was inclusive and provided opportunity for everybody, a hospital for those unable to access good healthcare and a hostel for the homeless.
It was out of this vision that Oasis Community Learning was born, and we have now grown into a significant education provider in just over a decade.
We are proud to be an integral part of the Oasis Trust, which continues to pioneer education, housing, health care, anti-trafficking, and many other initiatives to combat social-injustice across the world.
Oasis Community Learning is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales No 5398529. Registered Charity No 1109288 - Part of Oasis UK
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