Personal Assistant to Principal
City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park
Southwark
- Expired
- Salary:
- £29,133- £33,294 p.a
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2017
Job overview
Reputation building opportunities like this don't come up that often, but here's your chance to make your mark as you help shape our new academy.
Here at the City of London, we're aiming to build on the success of current schools by opening new academies. The City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park will be a brand new school serving the Shoreditch and Hoxton areas of Hackney and Islington. The building is due to be completed in September 2019 with the school opening with a year 7 cohort in purpose-built modular accommodation in September 2017. We're committed to promoting world-class educational outcomes for the young people we serve. As PA to the Principal, you'll smooth our journey and support us in ensuring the school is outstanding within three years.
Dynamic and proactive, you will help us match and surpass what we have achieved in our existing academies. It's a tall order - The City Academy, Hackney has been one of the top seven schools for student progress in the country for the last three years running. But you'll use your experience and expertise to help us improve on this. With the support of the City of London Academies Trust, you will help our new Principal to create a high expectation culture in which students feel safe, valued and motivated to succeed. You'll achieve this by providing reliable and strategic advice and support to the Principal, day in day out.
Committed to working in a school that improves student outcomes and life chances, you will be highly skilled and have made a significant administrative and strategic contribution to an academy or school. Skilled in multitasking, prioritising, advising and managing upwards, you will have the expertise, drive and determination to help us establish Shoreditch Park as the centre of excellence for education in the south of the borough.
Closing date 10am on Monday 30 January 2017.
Interviews will take place the week commencing 6 February.
The job information pack is available along with an application form to download from http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jobs
The reference for this vacancy is OCAH002. Please return your application form to cru@cityoflondon.gov.uk
The Shoreditch Park prospectus can be viewed at http://www.shoreditch.cola.org.uk/prospectus2/176.html
Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference number OCAH002. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.
This Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as part of the selection process a Disclosure and Barring check will be required.
The City of London is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
About City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park
- City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park
- 40 Hyde Road, Hackney, London
- N1 5JU
- United Kingdom
The City of London Academy Shoreditch Park is a brand new secondary school which opened in September 2017. It is currently based in a modern, modular, purpose built building and will move to its permanent home in a brand new building in Shoreditch Park in September 2020.
In nature, ethos and approach the school will be modelled on the ‘outstanding’ The City Academy, Hackney which is renowned for achieving world class standards for its students. We intend to quickly establish the City of London Academy Shoreditch Park as a centre of excellence for secondary education in the south of the borough as The City Academy, Hackney is in the East.
At the City of London Academy Shoreditch Park students are expected to work hard and to show dedication and commitment to their studies. In return, we provide fantastic academic, creative, sporting, linguistic, and personal educational experiences. This ‘City of London Experience’ is delivered through outstanding teaching and with the support of the sponsor, the City of London Corporation. There is also a real and continuing emphasis on personal skills and the development of values that all young people need to be successful.
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