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As Leadership for Belonging Project Lead, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of the programme, ensuring fidelity to its values and alignment with national and local priorities. You will also ensure the programme is scalable, sustainable and credible beyond its pilot year. You will act as a trusted senior partner to headteachers and trust leaders, offering both support and constructive challenge to drive cultural and systemic change ensuring sustainable and impactful whole-school practice.
Job Responsibility:
Providing strategic direction and vision for Leadership for Belonging as a system-wide programme
Leading programme design, quality assurance, impact evaluation and continuous improvement
Influencing senior leaders across schools and multi-academy trusts to drive sustained cultural change
Overseeing the development and use of evidence-informed training and implementation resources
Leading sustainability planning, resource management and future funding proposals
Reporting progress, impact and risk to senior leaders and governance forums
Requirements:
Experienced senior leader with a strong track record in education, bringing the credibility, confidence and professional judgement to influence headteachers, trust leaders, council services and wider partners
strong understanding of inclusive, relational practice and a proven ability to design and deliver programmes that drive sustainable culture change
skilled at building effective partnerships across the system and using evidence and impact data to strengthen delivery
What we offer:
Generous annual leave starting at 25 days + bank holidays
sick pay
local government pension scheme
Access to a range of benefits via our Employee Benefits Platform, including in-store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes
Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata)
Access to car lease scheme
Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth
Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network
Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards