Director of Training and Quality Assurance
Independent Schools Inspectorate
London, City of
- £70,000 - £80,000 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Plus 10% non-contributory pension - salary dependent upon experience.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 June 2021
Job overview
Full time, permanent role, 25 days’ holiday allowance, that increases to 30 days after one year’s service.
Normal place of work: ISI London office (note: currently all staff are working remotely)
Reporting to: Chief Executive-Chief Inspector
Direct reports: L&D Manager + QA Lead
The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) is a not-for-profit, independent, expert organisation appointed by the Department for Education (DfE) to conduct high-quality inspections against the regulations for independent schools in England and overseas. We are responsible for the inspection of schools in membership of the Associations that make up the Independent Schools Council and we are proud to inspect over 500 schools per year across England.
Our vision is that all children and young people in independent education are safe, secure and well educated. Our mission is to ensure that children and young people in independent schools and colleges at home and overseas stay safe and receive high quality, effective education, and to encourage schools to improve through the provision of world-leading, evidence-based inspection and improvement services.
Our office is based in Barbican and the organisation has approximately 32 employees and contracts a pool of over 1000 carefully selected and trained inspectors to provide its services across the UK
The ISI invites applications for a newly created key role to join its senior leadership structure, as ‘Director of Training and Quality Assurance’. This role will report directly to the Chief Executive – Chief Inspector and will be expected to work closely with the Deputy Chief Inspectors and the wider senior management team.
The post-holder will lead on their respective area within the organisation and across the inspector workforce, shaping strategy and implementing policy to ensure that the ISI fulfils its core purpose of enabling children to be safe, well-educated and thrive and its strategic aim of inspection excellence.
They will be responsible for the design and delivery of top-quality, up-to-date knowledge and skills focused training for the inspector workforce, and the quality assurance of the end-to-end inspection process.
A proven track record in school inspection experience, preferably gained across both maintained and independent schools is an essential requirement of this role, alongside experience of the design and delivery of workforce training and delivering effective quality assurance. A working knowledge of the independent school standards is desirable.
Please visit our website at https://www.isi.net/about/working-for-isi for further information regarding this position.
If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV and cover letter to selina.jetha@isi.net (Head of People, ISI).
Employment of the successful candidate will be subject to receipt of two satisfactory references (of which one must be from a current or most recent employer) and enhanced DBS clearance.
Closing date for applications: 17.00 on Tuesday 29 June 2021
About Independent Schools Inspectorate
- Independent Schools Inspectorate
- CAP House, 9 - 12 Long Lane
- London
- EC1A 9HA
- United Kingdom
The Independent Schools Inspectorate is an independent, expert organisation appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to conduct high-quality inspections against the regulations for independent schools in England. These regulations are The Independent School Standards and are set by Parliament. All independent schools in England must meet these Standards and we report to the Department for Education on the extent to which these Standards are met. For schools providing pupil accommodation, we also inspect against additional requirements set out in the National Minimum Standards (NMS) for Boarding Compliance and against the Early years inspection framework where relevant. All inspection reports are published on the ISI website. The Department for Education sets out detailed requirements that all independent inspectorates must meet in order to retain continued approval.
There are approximately 2,300 independent schools in England, and ISI inspects those which are members of the associations which make up the Independent Schools Council (approximately 1,300 schools). The remaining schools are inspected by Ofsted. The schools we inspect tend to be the larger independent schools; over 85% of pupils in independent education in England attend schools inspected by ISI. The schools we inspect vary greatly in character, from small day schools to large boarding schools, single sex, specialist schools like music and dance schools and schools with a specific religious ethos.
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