Free School Project Manager
Barton Court Grammar School
Canterbury, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary to be confirmed
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2018
Job overview
Free School Project Manager
Required as soon as possible, a Project Manager with experience of opening Free Schools, to work with Barton Court Academy Trust on their Free School Project due to open in September 2020.
A dedicated and enthusiastic Project Manager with experience of the Free School project process and working with the DfE, to work alongside the Executive Headteacher to help manage the project is required initially one day per week and increasing, as the need requires.
Barton Court Academy Trust consists of two secondary schools, the Lead School Barton Court Grammar School in the heart of Canterbury and The Charles Dickens School in Broadstairs, Kent. The Free School, an 11-18 years non-selective secondary school, is due to open on the former Chaucer Technology School site in the heart of Canterbury, co-sited with Barton Court Grammar School.
Applications for this post should be made online only via Barton Court Academy Trust website. CVs alone will not be accepted. Please email your application to Mrs Roberta Light – rlight@bartoncourt.org
If you wish to discuss this post further please contact Mrs Light by telephone on 01227 464600
Barton Court Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application via the Disclosure & Barring Service and check against the ISA Barred List for Children.
Attached documents
About Barton Court Grammar School
Welcome to Barton Court Grammar School (BCGS)
Barton Court Grammar School is an 11-18 years, selective, co-educational, Grammar school in Canterbury, Kent. The School is highly popular and is oversubscribed.
At BCGS, we are a school that seeks to inspire, support and enable both staff and students to achieve. To help us do this we promote the values of serving others, humility, achievement, respect and equality. We are a school which embraces our British heritage and British values. As a result, we welcome staff from a range of backgrounds and faiths to join our vibrant and inclusive environment.
Subjects across the School benefit from being led by a team of highly competent, skilled and charismatic middle leaders. Exciting and innovative teaching is enabled by the scaffolding of colleagues’ skills through carefully designed continuous professional development which encompasses everything from bespoke workshops to the opportunity to observe colleagues, including our Leadership Team. Entirely committed to education, our facilities are second to none and include a shared Sports Hall and gym with Canterbury Christ Church University, a new block built in January 2018 which consists of 7 new Mathematics classrooms, 3 state-of-the-art Science Laboratories, new Kitchen/Servery and Canteen. In addition, Sixth Form students have access to their own Common Room and own Learning Resources Centre. The whole site has industry standard wi-fi with students in the Sixth Form able to bring their own devices to school.
Colleagues and pupils benefit from our commitment to extra-curricular activities, enrichment days and enrichment week broadening student experiences and developing cultural capital. Successful teachers at Barton Court are committed, industrious and open to development, not only within the confines of the classroom, but within wider school life.
Barton Court is the lead school in the Barton Court Academy Trust which provides staff with opportunities to significantly contribute to the CPD of colleagues within the Trust and support and develop the curriculum being designed at the Barton Manor Free School, which opened in September 2022. In addition colleagues within the school take advantage of planned opportunities to be part of our Staff Drive team, as well as pioneering work in relation to staff workload and well-being.
Headteacher
Jonathan Hopkins
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