Knowledge, Experience and Training

Essential:

• A passion to support excellent local secondary education provision

• Critical listening and ability to ask effective questions

• Strategic thinking

• Excellent communication

• Problem-solving and analysis

• Experience of chairing boards / committees

• Leadership capability and management skills

• Ability to manage across multiple stakeholders

• A natural aptitude to model the Trust’s core behaviours – ‘We display transparency, kindness and respect in all our interactions with others, and support each other in all our endeavours. We are tenacious in our desire to make the difference together’.

Desirable:

• Prior school governance experience

• Knowledge of education

• Understanding of early talent careers provision

• Understanding and ability to interrogate data