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Chief Executive Officer

Competitive salary

Reading

Job Summary

We are looking to appoint a strategic and pragmatic executive leader who can demonstrate their impact on a growing organisation from either within, or outside, the education sector.

The Chief Executive Officer is the Trust’s Senior Executive Leader and Accounting Officer and as such is accountable for both the educational and financial performance of the Trust. They are responsible for upholding the values of the Trust, articulating its vision and demonstrating its ethos of opportunity, diversity and success for all.

The successful applicant will:

• Provide leadership that enables the Trust to achieve its strategic objectives and secure its future sustainability.

• Ensure the Trust has high quality, expert teaching in all the Trust’s schools, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn.
• Ensure the organisation complies with all statutory and legal requirements including safeguarding and health and safety.
• Ensure the Trust has high quality employment practices that promote equality, diversity and inclusion, including ethical practices of recruitment and retention of staff.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with the Trust Board recognising their key role in holding the CEO and executive team to account.
• In line with the Trust’s civic role, work with civic partners and stakeholders in the local area, region and/or nationally to contribute to the Public Good, ensuring the value of the child and coherent public service for children and families.

Trust Overview

Maiden Erlegh Trust was established in 2014 and is a growing education community of six schools, comprising Primary, Secondary, Special and Alternative Provision establishments in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. In addition, we are privileged to have been approved to develop two further free schools, due to open in 2023 and our system leadership work extends beyond our own organisation through the Maiden Erlegh Institute.

You will find Maiden Erlegh Trust to be a place of opportunity, diversity and success for all, built upon values of inclusivity and high ambition for our entire community.

This is an exciting time to join a forward-looking and growing organisation and we are seeking an exceptional candidate to lead us as we continue our quest for excellence in all that we do for the children and young people in our care.

Location

The Trust Central Office is based within the grounds of Maiden Erlegh School, Earley, Reading. You will be required to work across all Trust school sites and working from home is also supported.

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Name:Maiden Erlegh Trust

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