Head of Digital Transformation
Thomas Deacon Education Trust
Peterborough
- £65,000 - £70,000 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 November 2021
Job overview
Contract: Full-time , Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week/ 52 weeks per annum
Salary: £65,000- £70,000
Closing date: 28th November 2021
Start: TBC
Please note – the Trust may decide to withdraw the advert before the closing date or interview suitable candidates prior to the advert closing.
A new and unique opportunity for an exceptional senior leader to drive digital transformation across a forward-thinking and future-focused trust. Thomas Deacon Education Trust (TDET) is seeking an outstanding candidate for a newly created position of Head of Digital Transformation. Currently, the Trust operates a large IT Services Team and is driving forward digital developments into each academy through a number of development strands and working groups. Moving forward, the Trust has ambitions to be a digital-first organization and seeks to reshape the future of learning for all its students. The new post will join these functions together and provide strategic and operational direction and delivery for both business services and education.
Ideally, you should have experience of both educational and technical services and a track record of leading change across a large organisation. A thorough and up-to-date understanding of digital education will be essential. You will be responsible for overseeing, managing and evolving all aspects related to IT services and ICT in schools and move them from functions primarily concerned with hardware and software to one which will deliver the Trust’s value proposition for a future-proofed and digitally focused education. The collaborative and consultative nature of leading this change will require a capacity to work with people at all levels in the Trust, and from many different starting points.
The Trust currently comprises of ten educational partners, including seven academies, and caters for over 5,000 students from Nursery to Post 16. The Trust employs over 700 staff with an annual turnover of over £35 million. We continually share good practice and collaborate on the important aspects such as curriculum, assessment, and continuous improvement of teaching and learning. We firmly believe that the Trust as a whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Each of our academies has its own identity and is empowered to innovate according to its context and locality. However, we are connected through a common set of values – Trust, Diversity, Excellence, and Transformation. In this way, our students gain the very best of opportunities and experiences within a value-driven framework in order to prepare them for the world of the future. Our academies work closely together, taking part in real and meaningful collaborations between teachers, students, local businesses, and higher education. We are extremely proud of the achievements of each of our academies and the advancements that are being made.
If you wish to make difference to the lives of so many young people and help us to transform education please apply.
If you have any questions regarding this post please contact the HR Team on e-mail hrteam@tdet.education.
In addition to submitting a completed application form for this role, please also outline separately "How Digital Transformation can and will impact on learning at all levels across the academies and Trust services overall, and be sustainable over time." (Max. 2 sides of A4 typed to be emailed to hrteam@tdet.education at the time of application submission)
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About Thomas Deacon Education Trust
- Thomas Deacon Education Trust
- Queen’s Gardens, Peterborough
- Cambridgeshire
- PE1 2UW
- United Kingdom
The Thomas Deacon Education Trust (TDET) is a charitable organisation that unites and empowers like-minded schools to achieve the very best for their students and communities. At the heart of the Trust’s vision is a profound belief that difference is a strength to be valued and celebrated.
We are proud of our links to the city of Peterborough and its surrounding areas. We share the city’s ambitious vision for growth and believe that our schools and the education of young people must be at the heart of these plans. The Trust works across all phases of education; our ambition is to provide every child in our schools with the best life chances and high aspirations. By focussing on the city of Peterborough and its immediate surroundings, the Trust’s schools share a context as well as physical proximity. The resulting close working relationships are central to the Trust’s vision which is to build meaningful collaboration between our schools, teachers, students and local business and community leaders.
All members of our Trust – our schools, members of staff, students and communities - are united in purpose through a set of shared common values and expectations:
- Trust – we are honest and supportive
- Diversity – we embrace individual differences
- Excellence – we want the very best and never give up on doing what is right
- Transformation – we work together to make a positive impact
We know that there is no such thing as a one-size fits-all approach to education. Our schools are individual members of the Trust community; although they are united by values and purpose they have the freedom to innovate and to adapt to the needs of their students and local community. Serving such a diverse community brings great opportunities; for example, all students are encouraged to be bi-lingual learners.
We firmly believe that the Trust as a whole is more than the sum of its parts. All of our schools are equally valued; they shape the development and direction of the Trust as we grow together.
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