About The Role
Reports to: Vice/Assistant Principal
Start date: September 2025
Ark Pioneer is an outstanding secondary school and this is a fantastic opportunity for a great leader to lead our maths team. We are looking for the right person to oversee a rich and purposeful maths and further maths curriculum and build on the successes of our maths provision over our first five years.
What is special about this role?
At Ark Pioneer, we have a committed and passionate team keen to ensure pupils have the very best provision and can be successful in maths, with the opportunity to go onto further study in Key Stage 5 and beyond. We’re proud that our pupils count maths as one of their favourite subjects and our top mathematicians excel in further maths alongside their GCSE studies! We have a broad range of enrichment and extra-curricular opportunities, from MENSA maths to UKMT to school wide Number Hunts and Rubix Cube challenges. We are looking for the right leader to shape provision as we embark on our Sixth Form in Sept 2024 with maths counting as the highest ranked choice in over 210 year 12 applicants for our 150 year 12 places. If all of this sounds exciting, we know you will love leading our maths team!
Benefits:
* Bespoke professional development to all team members
* Opportunity to plan and moderate with colleagues in the same discipline, beyond our own school gates.
* Breadth of opportunities - many of our team have taken on leadership roles progressing from one of our sister schools.
* Benefits beyond the classroom including everything from shopping discounts to a supportive and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark here.
About Us
We are non-denominational, mixed gender school based in a brand-new building with top class facilities. We serve a wonderfully diverse community and two-fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding.
We’re led by our values - Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team truly unite behind our vision. Curriculum is incredibly important to us and we’ve planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline.
We timetable collaborative planning and love to engage in ‘productive struggle’. Every team member is supported with coaching and tailored professional development, whatever stage they are at in their career. Our extended school day (we finish at 4 four days a week and earlier on Wednesday) allows us to offer a broad, rich curriculum and timetabled enrichment for every child - but we never have meetings after school. Our team say: ‘All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in’.
See our school in action here and hear what our staff have to say about why they love working at our school here.
Visit arkpioneer.org/jobs to learn more about us.
Diversity and inclusion:
We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.
Safeguarding statement:
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.
Please note we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage you to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
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