[Hiring] Regional Director - School Improvement @Oasis Community Learning

Role Description

Are you a proven Head Teacher/Principal who’s as passionate about improving educational provision as you are about delivering against purpose? Would you relish the opportunity to perform a strategically focused role with the scope to impact across a whole region of secondaries to lead an agenda of school improvement and enhancing subject expertise?

This is a newly created role within our leadership team, with a core focus upon school improvement within your region, including leading a newly formed team of Regional Subject Experts.

• The role acts as a senior leadership bridge between national secondary strategy, regional leadership, academy practice and wider OCL service delivery.
• It carries delegated responsibility for ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into integrated regional and academy-level plans.
• Provides flexible Regional Director-level capacity where required by the National Director of Secondary.
• Acts as the escalation point for nominated priority academies, leading intensive support and challenge.
• Ensures wider academy improvement is aligned, resourced and effective.
• Curriculum implementation is delivered through a differentiated model.
• Works collaboratively with English and Mathematics Regional Leads, Regional Directors and relevant National Trust Subject Leads.
• Maintains Trust-wide coherence by setting expectations, resources and quality assurance frameworks across both delivery models.
• Deputises for the National Director of Secondary (North) as required.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience within the secondary phase, including leading curriculum implementation, teaching and learning, inclusion, attendance or behaviour priorities.
• Experience of providing senior leadership, support and challenge beyond one academy/school.
• Ability to act as a senior escalation point for priority schools requiring intensive support.
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into integrated implementation plans.
• Credibility and experience to coach, support and constructively challenge Principals and senior leaders.
• Strong knowledge of effective curriculum implementation, pedagogy, SEND and inclusion, attendance and behaviour practice within the secondary phase.
• Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and attitudes to use of authority and maintaining discipline.
• Ability to travel between trust academies.

Benefits

• Opportunity to continue your learning and further develop your educational expertise.
• Chance to make your mark in a newly created role that you’ll help shape and drive meaningful impact.
• Be part of the wide and varied Oasis peer group of educational leaders committed to delivering against our collective purpose.
• Expand your network and accelerate your career prospects in a role that combines leadership and mentoring with influence and knowledge sharing.
• Unique opportunity to ensure that all our students have a world-class education provision.
• Support and challenge of National leadership and the wider OCL education team.
• Work alongside expert leaders in their field and benefit from a strong support network and partnership.