Deputy CEO - Education

The Diocese of Coventry Multi Academy Trust has achieved significant successes since its incorporation and has much to be proud of. The most recent academy joined the Trust in February 2021 and this grew the Trust to 19 Church of England academies, 4,500 children and 850 members of staff across the Diocese of Coventry. This scale makes us one of the 150 largest Multi Academy Trust’s in the country.

Our Trust is full of outstanding colleagues. They are comfortable with high levels of accountability for the progress of over 4,500 children. They are willing to share and learn. Above all else, they like young people and aspire to make them outstanding citizens.

We would like our new post holder to deputise for our Chief Executive Officer and to lead in appropriate conversations with key stakeholders, including the Regional Schools Commissioner, Ofsted and the Diocese.

We are proud to tell people that an academy has never dropped an Ofsted grade under our management and our most recent SIAMS inspection resulted in an “excellent” judgement. But we are not standing still and you would be joining the Trust at an important stage in our development.

It will be an extremely exciting time to join the Trust. We foresee further academy growth and have a genuine desire to ensure our academy effectiveness offer is among the best in the business. To this end, we are undertaking a complete review of our academy effectiveness offer, how we resource it, how we staff it and how we deliver it. We would love it if the successful candidate is able to contribute to this, even before they officially start with us.

Our central support structure and our pupil numbers continue to grow. Our Board has recently signed off a new strategy, we are on the verge of another period of growth and we are reviewing our school improvement offer. We believe our Trust has a bright future and are looking for bright people who share and display our Christian values to help us get there.

To apply, please see supporting documents for contact details.

Please email all applications to colsen@academicis.co.uk by the 22nd April 2021 at noon.

Closing date: Thursday 22nd April 2021

Shortlisting: Friday 23rd April 2021

Interviews: 27th  April 2021