Director of Education
Baker Dearing Educational Trust
Home Based
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Daily Rate
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 May 2018
Job overview
Home based
Competitive Daily Rate, part-time 3 days per week, permanent
Our aim, at the Baker Dearing Trust is simple. To embed new technical schools into the English education system, through creating new and different opportunities that inspire young people, and equip them with the skills employers need in the 21st century. In 2010 the Baker Dearing Educational Trust (“Baker Dearing”) created University Technical Colleges (“UTCs”) in response to the UK’s need for advanced technical skills at all levels. This approach involves integrating technical, practical and academic learning, creating an environment where all students can find their strengths and specialise in subjects that interest and engage them.
Baker Dearing is not a multi-academy trust. It is an independent registered charity, responsible for awarding the UTC licence, and actively promoting and supporting these academies. Currently there are 49 open UTC’s with 13,000 students on roll between the ages of 14 and 19. Whilst there have been inevitable challenges in establishing a new and different approach, we are incredibly proud that for the third year running, the destinations for our leavers have been outstanding, with 97% staying in education, beginning an apprenticeship or starting a job.
Our current Director of Education is retiring after a successful three years in post. As his successor, you will be responsible for steering the UTC programme towards educational maturity. You will be the senior educationalist for the UTC programme and lead adviser on all education and school administration matters, for both the Chairman and Chief Executive. Leading a small field team of highly experienced home-based senior educationalists, you will support and work closely with the governing bodies and Principals of the UTC's, at a strategic and operational level.
You will have extensive experience of leadership and school improvement gained within the state education sector. A high level of emotional intelligence and exceptional interpersonal skills are essential for such a role. You will require drive and tenacity alongside diplomacy and patience. This will enable you to work effectively with and through a range of stakeholder organisations including the DfE and Ofsted.
If you are passionate about the future of young people aged 14-19 and are excited by employer led study and the UTC programme, you will relish this opportunity to be part of the team which permanently embeds, UTC’s into the English education system.
For more information please visit www.pentir.com/bakerdearing. For a confidential discussion please call Mike Phillips on 07830 313915 or Maureen Nicholas on 07540 222519, our recruitment advisers at Pentir.
Closing date: Friday 11th May 2018.
About Baker Dearing Educational Trust
Location: Millbank, London
Type: Charity
Phase: Secondary
Funding Status: State - Academy
Age Range: 14 - 19
University Technical Colleges (“UTCs”) are academies that operate under licence from Baker Dearing, which created the UTC programme in 2010 with UTCs opening regularly each year. Baker Dearing has actively promoted and supported them since then. The licence requires UTCs to offer high quality technical education to students studying KS4 and KS5 (also known as 14-19).
Representatives of employers and universities control the governing body of every UTC and also inform the curriculum and its delivery through consistent engagement with UTCs, both at the school and in the work place. UTCs operate a normal business week. There are 49 UTCs open with a capacity of some 600 students each. There are 13,000 students on roll at present and, for the third year running, the destinations of our 18-year-old leavers have been outstanding. A small number of new UTCs are expected to open over the coming years.
Baker Dearing is an independent registered charity which turns over about £1.4 million per year, of which 12% comes from the Department for Education (DfE) and 18% comes from the UTCs themselves in the form of licence fees. The remainder comes from grant making trusts and donations from educational charitable organisations. Baker Dearing has a staff of about 24 people, most of whom are part time, so about 13 full-time equivalents. Baker Dearing aims to use its influence to ensure that UTCs satisfy both the needs of the employers and universities which have created them and the teenagers who join them at the end of KS3. Baker Dearing also seeks to ensure that UTCs are good schools, as judged by the standard metrics of the educational system, that they fill up with a balanced cohort of students and can be financially viable.
Address - Baker Dearing Educational Trust, 4 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA
Phone: 020 7960 1555
Website: https://www.utcolleges.org/about/
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