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Clerk to the Board of Trustees (Term-time)

Clerk to the Board of Trustees (Term-time)

Woking College

Woking, Surrey

  • Expired
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Apply by:
15 July 2019

Job overview

The Role

Woking College is one of the top performing Sixth Form Colleges in the country, providing high quality education for over 1,400 students but drawing students from 64 different schools.

The College converted to a Single Academy Trust on 1 September 2017.  The Board of Trustees works very closely with the Principal and Senior Leadership Team, providing support and challenge, and sharing in the life of the college.  The Board are seeking a clerk to support them in their work in place of the current clerk who is leaving after 15 years at the College.

Board meetings are generally held at College on weekdays in the early evening.   There are approximately 12 Board and Committee meetings per academic year in addition to one General Meeting of the Trust.  In addition, the clerk may be required to clerk other governor panel meetings or additional meetings, such as interview panels for prospective Trustees or the occasional Appeal Hearing.

The successful candidate will be contracted to 12 hours per week for time spent preparing for, attending and following up meetings. These hours may vary on a week to week basis but on average will work out to be 12 hours per week during term-time only. A commitment to attending all meetings is essential and non-negotiable. 

The post-holder should be able to work independently with minimal supervision but with open and on-going consultation with the Principal and Chair of Trustees. The post-holder will report directly to the Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Training:  Training will be provided for the successful candidate in order to ensure they have all the skills to carry out the role effectively.

Application Information:

Hours: 12 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year).  See information above regarding evening meetings

Salary:   The salary for this role will be £11,000 per annum.  

Closing Date: 9am, Monday 15 July 2019.

Interviews: to be held mid-August 2019, exact date to be confirmed.

Start date: 27 August 2019

To Apply:  

Please download the Clerk to the Board of Trustees Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form (CVs will not be accepted on their own).  

For further information or to return a completed Application Form, please contact:      

Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer:  email: kcr@woking.ac.uk  direct telno: 01483 227438  Woking College, Rydens Way, Woking, GU22 9DL.   Reception telno: 01483 761036  Website:  www.woking.ac.uk

Important information:

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.

The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2018 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website. 

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About Woking College

Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.

Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!

We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020.  A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.

We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.

With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.

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