Assistant Vice Principal - Teaching and Learning

This is an exciting opportunity to appoint an outstanding practitioner to join the Senior Leadership Team at a time of significant improvement and growth for the Academy.  The Academy has been rated Good in terms of Leadership, Behaviour and Personal Development and Post-16 provision and is rapidly growing.  We are now looking for an individual with a capacity to lead on Teaching and Learning, with a particular focus on improving standards.   

Key aspects of your role will include: 

• Dynamism, enthusiasm, sense of humour and commitment to making a difference to students’ life chances

• The commitment to ensure students are given opportunities to ‘Embrace Challenge’ in all areas of school life

• An innovative and outstanding classroom practitioner

• A record of, and commitment to, developing and supporting staff and students

• Assisting the Principal in the strategic direction and development of the Academy

• The desire to be at the forefront of educational thinking

• Being committed to the Academy’s ethos of high expectations and high aspirations

• Having strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills

• A commitment to delivering and ensuring the highest standards of Teaching and Learning

• Innovative, strategic, dynamic and caring leadership

• Safeguarding the welfare of our young people and improving their motivation  

• Engaging effectively with parents to support student progress 

• Ensuring learners’ aspirations are continuously challenged and raised  

The successful applicant will: 

• Be loyal, dedicated and ambitious for our students  

• Have a genuine sense of vocation 

• Be utterly committed to achieving the highest standards  

• Be unrelentingly positive and solution-focused  

• Be effective in evaluating the changes in their own practice which have led to consistently outstanding practice (including classroom practice)  

• Be comfortable with consistently appropriate challenge to individuals and teams to improve performance  

• Be effective in data analysis, quality assurance and developing effective systems  

• Be a committed, reflective and resilient individual, ambitious for themselves and the Academy  

Contact Information:  For information and to arrange a visit and informal discussion about the post, please contact Mrs J Cox at coxj@dccacademy.org.uk  or on 01304 820126 x137 .

Closing date for all applications: Friday, 1 March 2019 Interview date: TBC   

Completed applications should be sent to Mrs J Cox at coxj@dccacademy.org.uk   

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  This post is subject to an enhanced safeguarding check and satisfactory references.  Dover Christ Church Academy is an equal opportunities employer.