Senior Leader Designate (Dixons 6th Form Academy)
Dixons McMillan Academy
Bradford
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary for the right individual
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Thursday 23 August 2018
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2018
Job overview
Following our successful Free School bid, the Dixons Academies Trust is seeking to appoint an inspirational and experienced individual to develop our new shared Dixons Sixth Form. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for an exceptionally talented and ambitious leader to work closely with an Executive Principal to start up and significantly contribute to the leadership of 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 the young people of Bradford every opportunity to confidently apply and secure places at top universities.
Our family of schools is comprised of primary and secondary, and includes both new start-ups and sponsored academies. Our diversity is a real strength of our model; strong collaboration is balanced with the individual freedom to innovate. We have a solid platform upon 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 2019, this Free School start-up will initially offer over 300 places to Dixons Academies 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, McMillan and Trinity. 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 be an experienced senior leader, or exceptional middle leader, 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 have the ability to motivate and inspire staff and students.
An information evening will be held at 5.30pm on Tuesday 17 April at Dixons McMillan Academy. Prospective applicants will have the opportunity to meet the CEO, Executive Principal and other Dixons Principals.
Please apply using the Dixons Academies application form and include a formal letter which addresses the person specification with particular emphasis on measurable impact. We are looking for an August start so that the successful candidate can be involved in all aspects of planning in readiness for opening in September 2019. When appointed, the successful candidate will also sit on and contribute to the leadership team of one our existing academies.
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 and access to a downloadable application form, please contact Heather Brons on 01274 424350 or via email: hbrons@dixonsma.com
Attached documents
About Dixons McMillan Academy
- Dixons McMillan Academy
- Trinity Road, Bradford
- West Yorkshire
- BD5 0JD
- United Kingdom
A note from the Principal
As the Principal of Dixons McMillan Academy, my vision is that our school is a place where everyone feels welcome, and everyone succeeds. All of our students should receive opportunities that equip them to contribute positively to their community and the wider world, and our mission is to provide a stellar educational experience that promotes cultural capital and enrichment experiences – but at the same time, is underpinned with academic rigour and excellence. To achieve our goals, we uphold our three core values of resilience, integrity and courtesy and use our drivers of mastery, autonomy and purpose to propel us forwards.
At Dixons McMillan, staff and students live by our three core values every day. By resilience we mean that we work really, really hard and we never give up. We have a can-do attitude, and when we find things difficult we work together (as a team) to find a solution. When we refer to integrity, we mean that we are good people. We do the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do. We make decisions for the good of everyone. We are honest and have strong moral principles. And finally, when we talk about courtesy, we pride ourselves in welcoming anyone warmly to our school community – be it a visitor, a new student, or a staff member. We always have good manners and we are kind, thoughtful and polite.
Through demonstrating these three core values consistently, we ensure that students can learn and staff can teach – and ultimately, our focus on success is relentless.
To learn more about our school and for more information, please visit www.dixonsma.com
Learn more about Dixons Academies Trust and our approach to culture on the Dixons OpenSource YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/dixonsopensource
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