School Effectiveness and Leadership Advisor

Country/Region:  GB

City:  Exeter

Location: Exeter, Devon, GB, EX2 7NL 

Compensation: £50,519.61 + Benefits 

Role Type: Full Time, Term Time Only – 41 weeks

Job ID: SF42533

Closing Date: 15th April 2022

Interview Date: 26th April 2022

We have a great opportunity for a School Effectiveness and Leadership Advisor to join our business, monitoring and supporting the educational provision in the Devon area, by promoting improved quality of leadership and its impact on outcomes for children and younger people.

Who we are looking for?

We are looking for a School Effectiveness and Leadership Advisor to implement rigorous classroom observation skills and apply appropriate criteria. You will have the ability to provide high quality feedback, communicating effectively to different audiences in order to present findings and judgements in a clear and concise manner.

What will you be doing?

You will play a key role in contributing to the strategic planning and oversight for all schools in Devon in order to maintain quality, performance and standards.

Your duties will include:

• Ensuring that all children and young people have access to consistently high quality opportunities to learn and achieve.
• Promoting strategies to raise outcomes for vulnerable pupils, and checking their impact.
• Ensuring that robust quality assurance and appropriate levels of support and challenge are provided to schools according to risk assessment.
• Supporting all forms of leadership to enable schools to evaluate and plan for self-improvement

The experience you’ll bring 

• Education to degree level and award of qualified teacher status is essential
• Evidence of further study or development is essential
• Previous successful school leadership experience and/or successful experience as an adviser/consultant is essential
• Knowledge of Education, leadership and management
• Knowledge of the changing national educational climate
• Knowledge of the relationship between schools, local authorities and the Regional Schools Commissioner
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve the appropriate security clearance level for this role – Enhanced DBS check / Enhanced DBS with Children’s Barred List check and Credit check 
• The role is mobile and you will be required to hold a Full driving licence and provide a vehicle for business use

What a role with Babcock offers? 

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Competitive money purchase pension scheme with life assurance
• Share ownership scheme
• Access to make a difference for a sustainable environment for future
• A tailored personal development and training programme.
• Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to deliver and be your best.
• We are happy to talk about flexible working. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

About Babcock LDP

Babcock LDP is part of Babcock Education, providing integrated education improvement and specialist intervention services. We work with academies, schools and settings, Devon County Council, other Local Authorities and with a range of regional and national bodies. Babcock LDP provides a single integrated service, which enables us to understand more fully the needs of customers and to deliver the best services to meet those needs in a coherent way. Our mission is to improve the life chances of all children and young people.

Babcock Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Application Guidance: 

If you have any questions or want more information around the position please contact Alice.McShane@babcockinternational.com 

All applications should be made online.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture and strive to attract talent who thrive in an inclusive and flexible working environment. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know and will respond in a way that best fits your specific needs.

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