Chief Executive
The Education Village Academy Trust
Darlington
- Expired
- Salary:
- Circa £115k plus up to a maximum of a 5% gross salary bonus, depending upon performance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 November 2014
Job overview
Where learning has no limits.
The Education Village Academy Trust has an exciting opportunity to offer an outstanding professional. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative individual who will provide both strategic direction and leadership to the Academy Trust, in an all age, all ability context. The right candidate will be exceptional at achieving good or outstanding outcomes and we would welcome applications from leaders in primary, secondary or special educational settings.
Although the Chief Executive will hold statutory headship responsibility of the five schools there is a high degree of autonomy for each academy leader and each school undergoes its own Ofsted.
The candidate:
- will have proven leadership and management skills within diverse organisations;
- will be inspirational and credible, with well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills;
- will be strategically influential with the ability to translate vision into success;
- will have a successful track record of raising standards and meeting challenging targets;
- will be able to demonstrate inspirational leadership of talented teams.
If you share our passion for supporting schools on their journey to outstanding provision we want to hear from you.
Visits to The Education Village, and the other academies in the Multi Academy Trust, are welcome on the following dates: Thursday 23 October 12 noon, Wednesday 5 November 10am and Tuesday 11 November 12 noon. Please contact Judith Amerigo to book your place by tel: 01325 248113 or email: jamerigo@educationvillage.org.uk.
Application packs are available from Jenn Austin at Avec Partnership Ltd, Tel 01325 281480 or email: jenn.austin@avec-partnership.com. Applications should be returned to Jenn Austin via email or by post to Avec Partnership, Suite 9 Yarn, Lingfield House, Lingfield Point, Darlington, DL1 1RW.
Closing Date: 14th November 2014
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
About The Education Village Academy Trust
- The Education Village Academy Trust
- Salters Lane South, Darlington
- County Durham
- DL1 2AN
- United Kingdom
The Education Village Academy Trust (EVAT) comprises...
- Haughton Academy (900 place Secondary School)
- Beaumont Hill Academy (225 place Special School)
- Springfield Academy (210 place Primary School plus 26FTE place nursery)
- Gurney Pease Academy (210 place Primary School plus 26FTE place nursery)
- Marchbank Free School (30 place BESD Special School)
...which together make up an all age a Multi Academy Trust (MAT).
Haughton, Beaumont Hill and Springfield all share The Education Village campus which was opened at Easter 2006 by Tony Blair, then Prime Minister. The three schools are housed in a state of the art building funded by £29 million privately-financed initiative (PFI) and a shared annual budget of £11 million.
From the beginning, it offered something completely new and became a by-word for innovation and 21st Century learning. The Education Village was the first education organisation in the country to involve the creation of a single setting where schools are not just co-located on a single site, but actually live together under one roof.
The Education Village was always more than a building housing three schools, it became the enactment of a vision of providing genuine personalised learning opportunities, utilising the skill and expertise cross phase and cross school.
Nevertheless the building was (and is) impressive, attracting 4 000 visitors from all over the world in the first two years of opening. More importantly, it provides world class facilities in which our teachers can teach and our students can learn. Moreover, it has become a centre for the community with opening hours from 8am - 10pm offering activities from Zumba to Karate.
Gurney Pease is situated in the Albert Hill area of Darlington in a beautiful, traditional primary school building whereas Marchbank is based in Mowden Hall, a grade II listed building in the west of the town.
There is single distributed leadership model with one Chief Executive in addition to an Executive Director and a Principal for each academy providing clarity to parents, staff and students.
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