Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
April 2025 (or sooner if possible)
Apply by:
19 December 2024
Job overview
Would you like to play a pivotal role in developing our Trust’s HR strategy to attract, retain, reward and support its people and enable them to achieve their full potential?
Are you resilient, tenacious and creative in your outlook and approach to problem solving?
Do you have a proven track record in coaching, leading and developing teams?
Can you build relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders to secure buy-in and support for new initiatives?
Generations Multi Academy Trust is seeking an outstanding Director of People & Culture to lead and shape the Trust’s people strategy. The successful candidate will be expected to lead on the provision of a first-class whole employee life cycle service for over 400 staff; whilst ensuring that this is underpinned by principled, compassionate leadership and adherence to UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
Working closely with Trustees, the CEO, and other senior leaders, the Director of People & Culture will ensure that the Trust’s people strategy and culture reflects its values and supports its wider development priorities, which centre on improving outcomes and life chances of children. The role is supported by a small, dedicated HR team. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in strategic HR leadership, a collaborative approach, and a commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive workplace culture.
The Trust has an extremely strong reputation for the development of, and support for, its staff. It takes seriously its responsibility to develop the next generation of school leaders and to equip staff to support our students. The Trust has a high aspiration culture for students and staff alike. In return, it offers a range of benefits, including competitive salaries, bespoke professional development plans, supported nursery provision, discounted gym membership, Employee Referral Scheme payments, wellbeing support, free flu vaccinations, and subsidised social events.
This appointment is supported by ASCL’s Leadership Appointment Service. If you feel inspired to find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Sancha Maggs on 07771 641751 or email sancha.maggs@ascl.org.uk for further information. Completed application forms should be emailed to: sancha.maggs@ascl.org.uk
Key Dates
Closing Date: 19 December 2024 at 12 noon
Shortlisting: 7 January 2025
Shortlisted candidates notified: 8 January 2025
Assessment and Interview Date: 13 January 2025
GMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must declare any criminal convictions, as the post is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment practices and any appointment will be conditional upon the receipt of an Enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. GMAT values equality and diversity and is an Equal Opportunities employer.
About Generations Multi Academy Trust
Generations Multi Academy Trust
c/o Goffs Academy, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN7 5QW
United Kingdom
Welcome to our information pack about the Generations Multi Academy Trust. GMAT is a cross-phase Multi Academy Trust based in Cheshunt, currently comprising two secondaries and one primary - Goffs, Goffs-Churchgate and Flamstead End School. It is our hope that a further primary, Andrews Lane School, will join our partnership from November 2024. Across the piece, GMAT currently has just under 3,000 students in its care and employs just under 400 staff. From Spring 2023, the MAT opened nursery provision on the Goffs-Churchgate site, with subsidised and term-time only places for staff. The nursery is run by Ashbourne Nurseries - https://ashbournedaynurseries.com/
The MAT is extremely clear about its daily purpose, reflected in its motto of “No Set Destiny for Any Child.” All of our schools, leaders and staff fiercely believe in the life-changing nature of education and work tirelessly to that end, day in and day out. There is no set destiny for any of the children in our care; rather, our daily work across the piece allows children to forge new futures and destinies.
Flamstead End School is a thriving primary school in Cheshunt with approximately 485 children on roll. It has a Preschool, 60-place nursery offering 30 hours provision and two classes per year group from Reception to Year 6. Flamstead End is a 'Therapeutic Thinking' school and seeks to understand and support children's behaviour so that they are able to learn and achieve to the best of their ability. The school is a tight-knit community, with a well-established staff who care for one another and the children in their charge.
Goffs-Churchgate is a fully mixed comprehensive school for 11-16 year olds, with just over 600 students on roll. The school has rightly established a very strong reputation for both its academic outcomes and its close-knit, nurturing community, receiving over 600 applications for 120 places for 2024 admission. The decision to cap student numbers at 600 is entirely deliberate, enabling us to maintain a strong sense of community where everybody knows everybody else.
Goffs is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive Academy with approximately 1,600 students on roll, including a thriving and successful Sixth Form. The school is also extremely popular in the local area, with an average of over 800 applications annually for the 240 places available, and significant waiting lists for places across the year groups.
All of our schools enjoy extremely high levels of applications and are over-subscribed. The schools are within close proximity of each other and share many activities, including CPD for staff. One of the Trust’s fundamental principles is that no one school is in any way more important or successful than the other. As such, CPD and other events are rotated through schools in the Trust, with everyone learning from and sharing with each other. This collegiate and collaborative approach permeates our Trust.
Staff and students work in modern, professional environments, with all schools benefitting from recent building projects including a full, £20 million rebuild at Goffs. The facilities provide light, modern, professional and fit for purpose working environment for all.
Notwithstanding a highly challenging funding situation for schools generally, the MAT remains financially secure. Finances are overseen by a Chief Finance Officer with considerable financial expertise in the private sector. The Trust deliberately created an Income Generation function, and extensive lettings and business development work now takes place across all sites in the MAT. This additional income – now yielding in excess of £500k per annum – underpins generous levels of staffing at our schools, plus many “extras” that would otherwise be unaffordable in the current funding climate.
Our schools pride themselves on their sense of community – both within the school itself, and in the wider locality. Visitors to our schools unfailingly comment on a very real sense of community, coupled with warmth and pride. Our schools are members of Cheshunt Extended Services (ChExS), offering a variety of extended school and community-based activities for both students and parents. Our students actively support local charity work such as the Isabel Hospice and maintain strong links with our local primary schools.
Our schools are proud to be truly community-based schools, with students and staff from different religions and a number of languages spoken in each school. As a Trust we recognise and celebrate what makes us unique and different, and acknowledge that we are also part of one community. Our aim is for everybody to feel valued and respected and we strive hard to ensure we create a positive culture within the schools to enable this to happen.
We are looking forward to further widening our Trust and to working in partnership with both primary schools and further secondaries. Further information about GMAT can be found here: https://generationsmat.com/
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