Star Principal

**Salary**:
£92,052.00 to £114,759.00 per annum

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

6 March 2025

**Job overview**:
Do you want to join a team that provides outstanding leadership, strategic direction and support to some of the best schools in the country? Do you want to play your part in delivering outstanding learning and teaching to young people in disadvantaged communities? If so, joining the Star team might just be the best career move you ever make.

Star Academies is looking for an ambitious and talented senior leader who will bring inspirational leadership to one of our schools based in Birmingham. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.

**Who we’re looking for**

We are looking for an exceptional Principal to lead us on our journey of sustained excellence.

With substantial leadership experience as a Principal or Deputy, you will lead an approach that sees every challenge as an opportunity to continually improve standards of education and to foster an outstanding learning environment. As a Star leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

**You will have**:

- Degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
- Substantial experience of senior leadership and management within and across school settings.
- Experience of successful leadership of change management within a school.
- The ability to create, and secure commitment to, a clear vision for an effective and high achieving school.
- The ability to lead and manage people to work towards common goals.

**About Star Academies**

**Star Academies**

is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our
**STAR values**

embody what we believe is needed to succeed.

Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our professional development hub,
**Star Talent Academy**
- With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a large, growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level.

We can also offer you a range of
**rewards and benefits**

, including competitive salaries and pension schemes, generous holiday entitlements and healthcare cash plans.

**Find out more**

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**Key Dates**

**Closing Date**: Thursday, 6 March 2025 at midnight.

**Interview Date**:To be confirmed.

**Proposed Start Date**:As soon as possible

**Application Process**

**Our Commitment**
- We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination._

**About**Star Academies**:
**Star Academies**
- Shadsworth Road, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB1 2HT
- United Kingdom

+44 330 313 9800

Nurturing Today’s Young People I Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders

WeAreStar

At Star, it is our mission to create outstanding schools that deliver the very best education to young people. We run a growing network of primary and secondary schools, with clusters in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and London.

Our culture is one of aspiration and high expectations. The whole of the Star community - pupils, parents, staff, the governors and partners - are united in a pursuit of excellence and a shared ambition to ensure every child has the opportunity to go as far as their talent and their hard work will allow.

We are a values-based organisation, driven by a sense of greater social purpose. Our vision of ‘nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders’ is at the heart of our education model. We passionately believe that schools have a transformational impact on society and have seen the difference that a rounded, high quality educational experience can make to individuals and communities.