Executive Principal

**St Ivo Academy**
Cambridgeshire£127,849 - £146,670 per year

**Job type**:

Full Time, Permanent**Start date**:

01 January 20269 October 2025**Job overview**:
**Shape the Future of Education in Cambridgeshire - Become Our Next Executive Principal**

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for educational excellence and a drive to transform lives? Do you thrive on building high-performing teams, leading with purpose, and delivering exceptional outcomes? If so, this is a rare opportunity to lead at scale and make a lasting impact.We are seeking an outstanding Executive Principal to lead two secondary academies in Cambridgeshire, as part of the Astrea Academy Trust family.**About the Role**

This is a career-defining opportunity for an experienced Principal or system-level leader ready to take the next step. You will be responsible for delivering brilliant outcomes for scholars across two designated academies, working closely with their senior leadership teams and the wider Astrea Secondary Education team.You will also help shape Trust-wide secondary strategy, contributing to transformational change across our family of schools.**What We’re Looking For**
You will be:
- A proven school leader with a track record of rapid improvement
- A strategic thinker with the ability to lead through others
- A culture-builder who inspires excellence and fosters joy, discipline and belonging
- A champion of our mission to tackle historic educational disadvantage

**What We Offer**
- You will be supported by a strong infrastructure and expert team, including:

- The Deputy Director of Secondary Education, Director of Secondary Education, and Regional Operational Manager
- Access to National Subject Leads, central teams in HR, Finance, Estates and more
- A values-driven culture focused on high expectations, powerful knowledge and warm-strict behaviour systems

**Key Responsibilities**
- Line manage Principals and lead strategic improvement across two academies
- Drive a culture of high expectations, academic rigour and disruption-free learning
- Codify and embed best practice across leadership, curriculum and behaviour
- Contribute to Trust-wide initiatives and system-level leadership
- Ensure every scholar learns, thrives and leads a successful life

**Why Join Us?**

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to delivering a knowledge-rich education that transforms lives. We believe in explicit instruction, carefully sequenced curricula, and a culture of deliberate practice. Our schools are warm, disciplined and joyful places where teachers can teach and scholars can learn.**Interested in applying?**-
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**About**St Ivo Academy**:
**St Ivo Academy**
- High Leys, St. Ives
Cambridgeshire
PE27 6RR
United Kingdom
- +44 1480 375400St Ivo is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. **When Ofsted visited last in April 2024, they judged us to be 'Good' in all areas.**

We have around 1500 students with approximately 150 in our Sixth Form. The school is 70 years old and is proud of its place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work, from supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable St Ivo embraces everyone.

We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and students can focus on learning, underpins everything

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose - teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.

**What we offer**: