Location: Academies Office, Larch Avenue, Guildford, GU1 1JY
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full-Time
Salary: £95,245.00 - £106,930.00 Annually (FTE)
Closing Date: 4:00pm, 3rd February 2025
Start Date: To be agreed
Interview Date(s): w/c 10th February
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
The Good Shepherd Trust (GST) is seeking an inspirational Chief Education Officer (CEdO) who can develop the trust’s education strategy in partnership with the CEO and CFOO. This is an exciting strategic role, working with a highly skilled and knowledgeable education team and the wider executive. The CEdO will contribute to raising the trust profile through effective stakeholder engagement and deputising for the CEO when required. The trust is looking for a visionary and creative leader who is a team player and who can help shape education in the trust in an ever-changing landscape.
As Deputy CEO, the CEdO will:
1. Support our CEO in leading our trust through the next stage of its evolution, ensuring we provide the best experience for our staff, our children, and our young people.
2. Support our CEOS in their core duties, fulfilling their statutory, regulatory, and legal responsibilities while recognising the broader parameters, moral responsibility, and purpose of a multi-academy trust.
3. Support the CEO in leading, mentoring, empowering and supporting other Executive Leaders, Headteachers and central services managers.
Key Accountabilities:
* Expanding the trust’s education strategy with a trust-wide focus on all aspects of quality of education across the trust’s schools.
* Quality assurance processes across the trust to assure the trust board.
* Effective performance of headteachers/principals across the trust.
* Promoting GST locally and nationally, including meeting with schools considering joining GST.
* Reporting to the trust board and committees on educational strategy and standards.
* The pedagogical approach across GST.
* The curriculum policy of GST.
* Strategic leadership of all educational risks on the trust’s risk register.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Trust strategy, vision and values
* Act as principal adviser to the GST on behalf of the education team on education matters, including academic standards, to ensure that its academies remain at the cutting edge of innovation and change, achieving outstanding outcomes.
* Lead external policies, projects and inspections related to school improvement, including government, Department for Education, Ofsted, national and local authority initiatives, and externally funded projects.
* Advise external bodies on academies’ educational performance (e.g. Diocese, DfE).
* Engage with the trust’s chief executive, the board of trustees and the academies’ senior staff as appropriate, to lead the development and implementation of the education strategy for the trust’s academies.
* Lead educational aspects of due diligence on prospective schools joining the trust and develop action plans as they join.
* Lead major transformational projects across the trust as required.
Leadership and management
* As a member of the trust’s Senior Leadership Team, provide strategic leadership and direction for the trust and deputise for the CEO, taking decisions and actions collectively with other executive team members and acting as the CEO’s representative as required.
* Contribute to the trust’s senior management team to ensure its effective management and development.
* Engage with and motivate a high-performing team within each academy, including the principal/headteacher, to achieve transformational change, growth, and success.
* Develop a coherent strategic education team to contribute to school improvement across the trust.
* Build a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality performance, ensuring effective performance management and succession planning arrangements are in place.
Education strategy
* Lead the planning, development and implementation of an effective education strategy, in conjunction with the education team, ensuring that aspirations and standards continue to rise in each of the trust’s academies over the long term.
* Develop the trust’s curriculum strategy and engage with headteachers to ensure ownership and buy-in.
* Contribute to the needs-based budget setting for each academy in conjunction with the finance team.
* Develop fully costed annual programmes of school improvement activities.
* Meet both national policy and local expectations so that the academies’ provision and outcomes meet external requirements/accountability frameworks and ensure that all learners benefit.
* Provide consistent recording and monitoring systems.
* Coordinate and monitor internally and externally led projects.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £95,000.00-£107,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
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