School Improvement Lead for Curriculum and Assessment

About us and the role

• Work with Principals and other senior leaders to ensure that our schools’ curriculum offers are broad, balanced and ambitious while ensuring local flexibility and some autonomy to innovate.
• Support Principals and other senior leaders to develop curriculum and assessment resources to support effective teaching and learning
• Oversee all elements of the MAT school improvement plan relating to curriculum, curriculum development and alignment
• Build an external network that can help support all AST schools with improving their curriculum offer.
• In collaboration with the SI Lead for Teacher Development ensure that the Avanti Institute provides high quality CPD that supports curriculum development and assessment practice
• Help to position AST as a beacon of excellence and innovation for curriculum development, maintaining leading edge knowledge of national and international research and developments in primary and secondary education.

Why should you apply

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

What are we looking for?

• A recognised teaching qualification
• Senior leadership experience at school or MAT level
• Proven experience of curriculum design and innovation, driving change and school improvement
• Successful experience of ensuring excellent teaching and learning, through processes of monitoring and support
• Experience of using pupil attainment data to inform curriculum offers and raise standards for all pupils
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Services Limited is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.