Director of School Improvement
Summit Learning Trust
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary and relocation package for the right candidate
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter
- Apply by:
- 2 June 2019
Job overview
This is a great opportunity to join Summit Learning Trust in a key senior position at an exciting time for the Trust. We are in the early stages of developing our Summit Professional Learning Institute, and the Improvement Director (secondary and sixth form) will play an important part in driving this ground-breaking new initiative.
The successful candidate will join a high-calibre team of Executive Directors, and will:
- have extensive, successful experience of leading good or better secondary/6th form provision
- be able to evaluate and analyse school standards and data precisely and accurately
- enjoy strong connections with other educational leaders
- have a strong track record of building on good practice and securing rapid improvement in secondary schools
- have the ability to plan precisely and strategically and to realise impact
- be widely-read, and have a keen understanding of current educational matters, particularly in pedagogy and curriculum
- enjoy working collaboratively with enthusiastic and committed Principals and senior leaders
- be a compelling and convincing communicator
- be committed to making a significant contribution to the realisation of the shared Trust vision and strategy
- lead with curiosity, energy and determination
The Summit Learning Trust comprises of three secondary schools, four primary schools and a Sixth Form College. The Trust’s commitment to excellence is recognised nationally and internationally. All schools work in partnership with the Ninestiles Teaching School to support staff development, which further extends the scope of opportunities for career advancement in working with other schools.
Why work for us?
The Trust offers:
- High quality training and support
- Opportunities to work across a number of schools
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount schemes
Closing Date: 12pm on Monday 3rd June 2019
Interview Dates: Thursday 13th and Friday 14th June 2019
If you would like more details about this or for an informal chat with the CEO, please contact Kate Purchase on 0121 693 1646.
For further information and an application pack please visit our site.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or
race.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, including a Children’s barred list check.
About Summit Learning Trust
- Summit Learning Trust
- Hartfield Crescent, Acocks Green, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B27 7QG
- United Kingdom
Ninestiles School became an academy in 2011. Following this, Ninestiles Academy Trust was set up in 2012 and now has 7 schools and a 6th form college in its family. Ninestiles became a teaching school in the second cohort of teaching schools and is now widely known as Ninestiles Teaching School Alliance. Ninestiles has also had a centre for Initial Teacher Training since 2003, which is now South Birmingham SCITT. They have a passion for teaching and support and guide each trainee to their full potential, enabling them to securely enter the teaching profession in just one year.
A new Chief Executive, Catherine Anwar, joined the Trust in May 2017. Before joining the trust, Catherine was a Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector for Ofsted for four years and served eight years as a secondary school headteacher in Hampshire.
In our Trust, we celebrate the rich and diverse school communities that make up our schools. Sharing, listening to and respecting each other’s views and beliefs make our Trust stronger. We support each other, honouring our different backgrounds, to create a safe and equal environment for all.
We are fiercely ambitious for all our pupils and challenge them to do their best, every lesson, every day. We check their achievement and progress against the highest national standards. This ensures that we are always looking for ways to improve, and that we insist, relentlessly, on the highest standards of teaching and learning. Everyone in the Trust is continually challenged to improve on their previous best.
Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement. In our Trust, we encourage and provoke pupils’ curiosity so that they are inspired to seek out new knowledge, learn new skills and achieve excellence. Curiosity is closely linked to empathy, helping us all to develop better relationships. The life of a curious person is never boring!
The Trust Motto
Strength through Diversity
Ambition through Challenge
Excellence through Curiosity
The Trust changed its name to Summit Learning Trust in January 2019. The new name for the Trust symbolises our aspiration and ambition for all children and young people across our schools and college.
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