Director of Strategic School Improvement - Vacancy Ref: CEN16

Due to our successful and continued growth and in order to support our relentless focus on school improvement we are introducing an exciting new senior opportunity within the Trust.

We are seeking an inspirational, strategically focussed school leader with a proven track record in successfully improving schools to help us realise our vision of being one organisation where our students’ achievements always come first.

We are the largest Multi Academy Trust in Cumbria and continue to grow. We currently have 13 schools within our family; ten primary and three secondary schools, all of which sit at the heart of their local communities. We embrace working collaboratively and in partnership inside and outside of the Trust to transform the life chances of our young people and support their families to enable this.

This new role will work closely with the CEO to develop our school improvement strategy to maximise impact with a key focus on:

• ensuring assessment structures can be used effectively to raise standards across CET;
• implementation of a Trust wide assurance framework;
• implementation of an effective IT strategy across the Trust;
• development and implementation of the ITT strategy for the Trust;
• supporting the effective integration of the HR Strategy ensuring the retention and development of CET staff;
• production and implementation of the External Monitoring Programme across the Trust;
• development and implementation of a research culture across the Trust; and,
• collating the Sustained School Improvement document on an annual basis.

You will be an integral member of the Trust’s Executive Leadership Team, working with the Directors of Improvement to shape the future direction and strategy of the Trust as a whole.