Corporate Director of Education - up to £90k

This is a statutory Corporate Director role, reporting into the Managing Director and playing a visible corporate leadership role. Education is an extremely high priority for the council, so we want to hear from candidates who can make a real contribution to our ‘one council’ philosophy.

The Council promotes and enables a collaborative, self improving approach, with strong partnerships between individual schools, encouraging cluster working, and drawing on the resources of the local authority itself.

The key educational priorities for the role are:

1. School Improvement
2. 21st Century Schools Programme
3. Inclusion
4. Youth Services

Overall improvement has continued at a steady rate in recent years, and we are totally focused on continuing this trajectory. This role will lead on driving better attainment and outcomes, working at a system level to create improvement capacity within schools.

The relationship with the EAS is a very positive one, and the systems by which their resources are introduced and used to support effective self-improvement are well-established.

Culture and Leisure

This role is also responsible for the client functions for Culture & Leisure, which was placed into an arms length trust (Aneurin Leisure Trust) in 2014, and has recently agreed a new five year contract to operate a range of facilities in the Borough. It is responsible for

• Sports centres in Abertillery, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar
• Parc Bryn Bach, Tredegar
• Bedwellty House & Park, Tredegar
• Adult Education Centres
• Libraries

Many of Blaenau Gwent’s leisure facilities share sites with secondary schools, and there is a clear and vital link with active, healthy schools and libraries, for example.

We are not expecting that all candidates will have previous leisure management experience, and there is already a very strong management and leadership team (including trustees) in place; rather, the expectation is that the Corporate Director for Education will embrace the synergy between the organisations, and work productively to achieve a clear set of shared priorities. They will sit on a new Strategic Partnership Board, which will oversee the maintenance and future growth of the leisure and culture sector in the area.

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