Senior Leader, Vocational Programmes

Education Week Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Senior Leader Development

Flexible Working

Benefits package

Job summary

The Harris Federation seeks an outstanding leader to join as Assistant Principal with responsibility for Vocational Programmes across the Quadrant. You will manage strategic and operational development of Business Studies and Vocational Programmes across multiple Harris academies, ensuring alignment with ethos and objectives.

You will oversee departmental reviews, data-driven improvement, and professional development, while building external links with universities and subject bodies.

Qualifications

• Degree in subject specialization or equivalent.
• Qualified teacher status.
• At least three years’ teaching experience.
• At least two years in a management role.
• Experience teaching the subject to KS5.
• Clear evidence of having raised standards of achievement.
• Successful experience of curriculum development.
• Experience in observing and evaluating teacher quality and providing feedback.
• Experience of setting specific targets and managing improvement across a Key Stage or more widely.
• Successful experience in a multi-ethnic inner-city school.
• Evidence of being an excellent teacher.
• Strong knowledge of the national curriculum programme of study for the subject and of current subject developments.
• Ability to clearly articulate a vision for the future of the subject which enthuses and motivates.
• Ability to plan and deliver effective training and development programmes which meet identified needs within the academies.
• Excellent ICT skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A self-starter with the resilience and ability to plan individual programmes of work and achieve designated targets.
• An ability to work flexibly, including some weekends, evenings as and when required and residential courses

Responsibilities

• Work with academies to support subject departments to achieve measured improvement in order to achieve demanding targets.
• Undertake departmental reviews and produce action plans to raise standards.
• Critically analyse and interpret data from a range of sources to identify appropriate departmental improvement strategies and so ensure challenging targets are set and achieved.
• Proactively ensure appropriate intervention strategies are put in place when needed so that departments meet their subject targets.
• Provide targeted and intensive professional development, consultancy and interventions with students and subject departments.
• Coach and mentor subject staff and contribute to performance management arrangements as part of school leadership.
• Model best practice and be seen as an approachable and useful fellow to staff across the Quadrant.
• Establish external contacts with universities and subject associations on behalf of the subject departments.
• Establish a bank of high-quality online materials and schemes of work in the Harris Learning Gateway.
• Lead Quadrant master classes or revision schools in Mathematics and English where appropriate.
• Assist in improving numeracy or literacy strategy to meet targets.
• Occasionally teach key subject classes or act as interim subject leader when needed.
• Keep up to date with subject developments and provide leadership and guidance to academies.
• Work with Principals and Quadrant Leaders to recruit and retain staff.
• Lead external collaborations and share resources with the Quadrant to support teaching and learning across Harris academies.

Skills

Degree in subject specialization

Qualified teacher status

Teaching experience KS5

Leadership experience

Data analysis

Curriculum development

Observation and feedback

Targets & improvement

Multi-ethnic inner-city experience

ICT skills

Communication skills

Flexibility

Professional development

Education

Degree in subject specialism or equivalent

Job description

The Harris Federation seeks an outstanding leader to join as Assistant Principal with responsibility for Vocational Programmes across the Quadrant. You will manage strategic and operational development of Business Studies and Vocational Programmes across multiple Harris academies, ensuring alignment with ethos and objectives.

You will oversee departmental reviews, data-driven improvement, and professional development, while building external links with universities and subject bodies.