Aspiring Principals Programme

3 weeks ago

West Midlands, United Kingdom Star Academies Full time

Aspiring Principals Programme – Vice Principal

Star Academies is seeking dynamic and ambitious secondary school senior leaders to join our Aspiring Principals Programme. If you’re a gifted future principal, and are eager to embark on a journey of rapid development that includes bespoke support, we want to hear from you.

Star Aspiring Principals Programme

The Aspiring Principals Programme forms part of Star Academies’ new Talent Strategy which focuses on harnessing and nurturing talent and accelerating professional growth, through a range of mechanisms.

We are currently recruiting to the programme and are seeking to employ five Vice Principals in Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Bradford and Birmingham with a view to fast tracking them into the role of Principal, in a Star school, within three years.

Our programme responds to research into what effective headteachers, who took a fast-track route, found most useful and contributed to their success.

Evidence indicates that high quality support for leadership development, combining experiential, collaborative and formal learning, is an imperative. Most importantly:

having in-school opportunities to take on a breadth of leadership roles and specific whole school responsibilities, including high stakes accountability leadership coaching provided highly effective school principal opportunities to discuss the impact their leadership actions on pupil outcomes and to problem solve with peers engagement in formal learning activities to build a professional identity and credibility as a leader securing expertise in leading the improvement teaching and learning, at scale

What you will get

Across the three years, working as a Vice Principal in a Star school, you’ll receive:

a programme of leadership responsibilities, matched to your talents and identified gaps, to enable both professional growth and opportunities to demonstrate your impact on pupil outcomes regular leadership coaching from the principal of an outstanding Star school the opportunity to complete any National Institute of Teaching National Professional Qualification that matches your aspirations and development needs an annual bursary to spend on professional development or qualifications of your own choosing access to mentors in other Star schools according to need the opportunity to act as a Star Leadership Excellence Fellow, providing support for other schools visits to exemplary schools across England

On demonstrating your impact as a Vice Principal you will be appointed, as Principal, to a Star school.

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking experienced senior leaders in secondary schools, who have the capability to become a principal within 3 years.

Applicants must:

have the potential, commitment and track record to become a school principal have qualified teaching status or qualified teacher learning and skills status have senior leadership experience in the last 4 years such as deputy or assistant head/principal in a secondary school be able to demonstrate the impact you’ve had across a school be open to working in a school in a challenging context

When it’s available

From September 2024 going forward.

How to apply

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