Head of Governance

**Salary**:
Grade 10 (SCP 31 - SCP 35)

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
March 2025

3 February 2025

**Job overview**:
The Sir John Brunner Foundation seeks to appoint a Head of Governance and Compliance to join the central team, to oversee all aspects of governance effectiveness and compliance within the trust, ensure governance adheres to good practice and meets all statutory and regulatory requirements, and provide strategic leadership of services that support governance across the trust.

The postholder will be responsible for leading our governance services, advising on issues relating to governance of MATs, developing governance and leading on compliance.

This is an exciting time to be joining our Multi Academy Trust, of three High Schools and a Sixth Form College, which collectively educates over 4300 children, and employs over 450 professionals.

Each academy within the Foundation operates at the heart of its local community. The Foundation’s offices are based at Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College which is a modern purpose-built campus set in beautiful grounds. The other Academies, The County High School, Leftwich; Middlewich High School and The Macclesfield Academy are all based within Cheshire.

To be successful in post you will be degree educated and will hold a governance related qualification. You will have experience of clerking and/or providing secretarial services to committees and/or boards, leading a service across a multi-site organisation and managing compliance. You should also have an excellent understanding of the education sector (preferably 11-16 or sixth form), with a strong grasp of current and emerging educational issues.

Applications should be submitted no later than **12 O'clock, Midday on Monday 3rd February 2025**

Interviews are scheduled for** Friday 7th February 2025.**

**About**The County High School Leftwich**:
**The County High School Leftwich**
- Granville Road, Northwich
- Cheshire
- CW9 8EZ
- United Kingdom

+44 1606 333300

The County High School Leftwich is a fully inclusive, co-educational, 11-16 school with approximately 1000 students, 60 teaching and 60 support staff. The school serves a mixed catchment area with a Published Admission Number of 196, though we are now significantly over-subscribed.

The School is a safe and calm, inclusive and positive community and workplace. Students enjoy and achieve during their time at this school. They leave as rounded individuals, aware of the wider-world, ready to make a positive contribution to it and fully equipped to flourish in it, whilst having maximised their academic potential. The school strives to ensure that colleagues are motivated, happy, supported and derive satisfaction from their role.

An academic Curriculum is an opportunity for and expectation of all our students, further enriched by opportunities beyond the timetable. The school’s curriculum endeavours to develop students':

- Comprehension and command of knowledge and skills
- Character
- Creativity and imagination

Our broad, balanced and enriched curriculum promotes the enjoyment of learning, motivating students to gain the knowledge, skills and qualifications enabling them to realise their potential and thus exercise choice and control in their personal and working lives. We believe that every student’s experience of success contributes to their personal happiness.

The school prides itself on a sustained reputation for outstanding academic performance in a proudly inclusive learning environment. From 2016 to 2019, students achieved progress described as ‘above average’ and in two of these years students achieved progress ‘well above average’, as described by the Department for Education (DfE). In 2019, students achieved a Progress 8 Score of +0.80. In 2020 students achieved progress in line with previous years. In 2017, the school was awarded a National Pupil Premium Award by the DfE, further demonstrating our commitment to ensuring **all** students achieve **their** academic potential.