Principal of St. James’ Academy and Executive Principal of Newland St. John’s Academy

The Sentamu Academy Learning Trust (SALT)

Principal of St. James’ Academy and Executive Principal of Newland St. John’s Academy

Are you passionate about education for young people in challenging urban environments and have experience of a significant leadership role within an educational environment? If so, we have a rarely offered opportunity for a committed Executive Principal to lead and develop our Multi Academy Trust.

Following the retirement of the current post-holder, we are pleased to offer this post commencing January 2021. The successful candidate will be joining us at an exciting time of development. We need someone who has an excellent track record of “achieving against the odds”, and who excels in seeing and developing the potential in their teams. That person must be passionate about seeing all young people achieve, and have the resilience to cope with the additional rigours of working within a challenging urban environment. Above all, we are looking to appoint someone committed to demonstrating their Christian faith in every aspect of the work they undertake in achieving these goals.We realise that this post has a high level of challenge, but we believe that the successful candidate will find it a highly rewarding experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

If you wish to discover more about this exciting opportunity, arrange a school visit, need any further information or you wish to have an informal discussion, please contact our recruitment partner Tracy Laverack at Academicis tlaverack@academicis.co.uk or call her on 01223 907972 or 07554 118997.

Closing date: Monday 22nd June 2020

Shortlisting: Tuesday 23rd June 2020

Interviews: Thursday 9 and Friday 10 July (all day)

Please email your application to: tlaverack@academicis.co.uk

The selection process will be conducted taking into account Government advice regarding social distancing at the time.