Director of People – Permanent Appointment – Great Schools Trust
The Great Schools Trust (GST) is a values-based mission driven multi academy trust which has doubled in size from three academies (1200 students) in 2015 to five academies(2500 students) in 2021. The trust’s first school, King’s Leadership Academy Warrington, opened in 2012 as a 11-18 free school with a distinct ‘leadership’ specialism and with the vision of driving system change and enhancing the social and geographical mobility of its community. By 2019 the academy became the highest performing non-selective state school in Cheshire and ranked in the top 5 of the highest performing free schools nationally. Over 95% of its students have progressed onto their first-choice university in the last 3 years (compared to 8% HEI progression pre-2012 in the locality).In February 2021, two Wave 14 free school applications were approved by the DfE, King’s Walton for North Liverpool and King’s Farnworth for a second GST school in Bolton.
At full capacity GST’s seven academies will grow the trust’s student cohort to over 5000 students and 600 staff. GST’s ambition is to double again in size by 2030, operating 14 academies in 6 hubs across three NW regions. GST understand that a happy and healthy workforce has the greatest impact above all else on the quality of children and young people’s learning and progress. Furthermore, we must ensure both wave 14 academies open successfully whilst also support internal growth of our existing academies and further expansion. The attraction, development and retention of talented mission driven employees will support GST’s second strategic anchor and their top area of investment over the next three years – our ‘People’.The trust now seeks to appoint a Director of People to make this goal a reality. The candidate would become the talent architect for the trust and lead the optimisation systems and processes that drive the performance of our people.The strategic plans of GST are delivered through a culture of intent and values based leadership. The strategic objectives and granular detail for the trust’s People Strategy will be up to the successful candidate to proffer. The successful applicant will Research, Design, Implement & Lead the GST People Strategy, and focus on the following key areas.
Attracting, Recruiting and Selecting:
- Attracting:
- Develop the Trust’s employer brand as a mission driven organisation with ambition and a sound future
- Raise the profile of the Trust as an outstanding employer
- Recruiting:
- Develop innovative approaches to recruitment and selection that enable the Trust to recruit individuals that have the necessary values, skills set, beliefs and behaviours which reflect those of the Trust
- Selecting:
- To select and engage people with ambition for both themselves and their students
- Ensure a seamless transition from an effective induction to ongoing personalised professional development
- Ensure pay and reward arrangements are appropriate to support this ambition
Grow, Develop, Perform & Lead
- Grow
- Establishing a clear understanding of how individuals and teams contribute to the achievement of the Trust’s goals and provide innovative review and feedback mechanisms which lead to excellent performance
- Developing talent management and workforce planning processes, within the Trust
- Develop succession planning across the Trust, ensuring the Trust has a talent pipeline in readiness for future challenges. It will provide staff with the potential to realise their dreams and develop their talents.
- Perform
- Ensuring robust performance management and use of targets to enhance performance and individual development
- Establish structures that provide clear progression and promotion paths for staff
- Establishing arrangements to be able to reward excellent contribution which is transparently linked to outcomes
- Lead
- Work alongside the Director of the Leadership Institute to establish a ‘ GST leadership brand’ for developing exceptional mission driven leaders with a distinct set of talents and values that are uniquely geared to fulfilling the expectations of students, parents, staff and the local community
- Build leadership capacity by working with colleagues who deliver high quality training programmes at all levels across the Trust
Engage, Retain & Reward
- Engage
- Work alongside the Director of Marketing & Communications to ensuring that the organisational aims of the Trust and individual academy development plans are effectively communicated to all staff
- Providing more opportunities for staff to give their feedback and suggestions on proposed developments
- Developing practices and procedures where staff have the opportunity to contribute the decisions that affect them
- Developing a culture of fairness and equity where all staff feel valued and are treated well
- Using regular staff questionnaires/pulse surveys to gain a greater understanding of staff views and concerns which then guide future actions
- Retain
- Provide a health and wellbeing offer which is proactive, preventative and provides staff with high quality care and expertise
- Ensuring that we are pro-active in our approaches to stress management, absence management and appropriate training for leaders and managers at all levels
- Reward
- Enabling recognition of outstanding performance through recognition mechanisms that motivate staff to perform at the highest level
- Developing a range of staff recognition mechanisms to ensure staff feel valued
- Ensuring all staff recognise the Trust as a good employer through a competitive total rewards package
- Ensuring a fair and robust job evaluation system
Excellence in HR Compliance & Service Delivery
- Delivery
- Establishing an HR division within the central team which will guide our HR practices and procedures in ensuring that the Trust is seen as a good employer
- Delivering an excellent HR service through close partnerships between the Trust’s HR division, leaders, managers and staff in all areas
- Provide HR support to the Central Team when the brokering of additional schools or the opening of more Free Schools
- Compliance
- Managing the delivery of a compliant, professional HR business service for the trust
- Ensure that the trust is operating within a legally robust HR policy and procedural framework that is fit for purpose
- Lead on advice, support and casework to individual academies regarding all HR matters
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