Principal
Dixons Academies Trust
Bradford
- Expired
- Salary:
- L25 – L33 depending on experience + up to 10% PRP: (£70,348 – £94,135)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2017
- Apply by:
- 5 October 2016
Job overview
Dixons Academies Sixth Form Centre
Following our successful Free School bid, the Dixons Academies Trust seeks to appoint an inspirational and experienced individual to lead our new shared Dixons Sixth Form. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for an exceptionally talented and ambitious leader to work with an Executive Principal to start up and lead a sixth form centre that will compete with the country’s top performing providers.
Working for the Dixons Trust, you will fully align to our vision and values and have a strong commitment to doing whatever it takes to secure the best possible outcomes for our students. You will be firmly committed to providing an education that will give young people of Bradford every opportunity to confidently apply and secure places at top universities.
Our family of schools includes both primary and secondary, both new start-ups and sponsored academies. Our diversity is a real strength of our model, balancing strong collaboration with the individual freedom to innovate. We have a solid platform from which we continue to build; our Trust will continue to expand, from 4,900 students now to over 8,000 by 2018.
Opening in September 2017, this Free School start-up will initially offer 230 places to Dixons Academy students and when full will have a roll of 880, with the potential for further development and expansion on the site. Many places will be taken up by students from Dixons City, Kings, Trinity and eventually McMillan. However, there will be places offered to other students from across the City who secure the correct entrance requirements and are fully signed up to our ethos of high expectations and relentless ambition.
The successful candidate will have experience of leading a high-performing sixth form and have a secure knowledge of all aspects of working within this sector. They will be able to demonstrate and evidence an uncompromising commitment to providing an outstanding education and the ability to motivate and inspire staff and students.
An information evening will be held at 5.30pm on Monday the 26th of September at Dixons City Academy. Prospective applicants will have the opportunity to meet the CEO, Executive Principal and other Dixons Principals.
Please apply using the Dixons Academy application form and include a formal letter which addresses the person specification, with particular emphasis on measurable impact. We are looking for a January start so that the successful candidate can be involved in all aspects of planning the lead into opening in September 2017.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undertake a DBS enhanced clearance.
For more information about this vacancy, access to the microsite and a downloadable application form please contact Jo Whittleston on 01274 220768 or via email: j.whittleston@dixonsca.com
Closing date: Thursday 6th October 2016 (9.00am – late applications will not be considered)
Interviews: w/c 10th October 2016
About Dixons Academies Trust
- Dixons Academies Trust
- Ripley Street, Bradford
- West Yorkshire
- BD5 7RR
- United Kingdom
At Dixons, we are committed to making a difference where it matters most. We work to improve the future for thousands of children in the parts of the north of England where young lives are adversely affected by social and educational disadvantage.
We believe that every child, regardless of their background, should be able to fulfil their academic potential and go on to thrive amongst the demands and expectations of 21st century life.
We are ambitious for every child we teach and want to see a society that benefits from the contributions of our well-educated and empowered young people who come through our network of high-performing non-faith academies. We make a difference to young lives by being that difference and defying the disadvantage we see.
Founded by Dixons City Academy, the former City Technology College, our Trust has almost thirty years’ experience of running our own affairs. Although our original sponsor, Lord Kalms of the then Dixons Stores Group, still takes a keen interest in us, we are now self-sponsoring and independent. We remain true to our original aims, however, and our ambition remains the same: to transform education in our region.
Our family of schools includes primary, secondary all-through and sixth form. We focus exclusively on sponsored turnaround academies to address educational failure and on new free schools to meet growing demand. Our diversity is a real strength of our model, balancing common alignment with the autonomy to innovate. Our start-ups are all graded Outstanding and our sponsored academies have all climbed at least two Ofsted grades with our backing.
We have achieved a great deal in a relatively short time, but such is the culture of expectation here that we know our greatest impact is yet to come.
Visit our website to find out more: www.dixonsat.com
Learn more about our culture on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/dixonsopensource
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