School Effectiveness Officer (Diocese of Chichester)

Job introduction

Salary: £55,000 - £58,000 per annum 
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time or Full-time

Closing date: Monday 21 April 2025 at midnight 
Interview date: Tuesday 29 April 2025

How to apply: Please apply via Pathways and list on your application whether you are interested in the full time or part time role.  

Who to contact if you have a query: For an information conversation about the role please contact the Deputy Director of Education, Ruth Cumming (ruth.cumming@chichester.anglican.org).  

About the role

School Effectiveness Officers
We wish to appoint two experienced senior leaders to help us deliver educational excellence and effectiveness across the 155 Church of England schools and academies that belong to the household of faith in the Diocese of Chichester.

As a result of the retirement of two members of the Education team we have a full time and a part time role (0.8) available from September.  We are seeking candidates who can support the development of school improvement and Christian distinctiveness provision across our Church of England schools and academies. 

Our vision for Education is to be “Deeply Christian, serving the common good.”   Based at Church House in Hove, we seek to live out our vision to “Know, love and follow Jesus”.

The principal duties include: 

• Providing advice and support to school leaders on strategies for improvement and raising standards in church schools
• Developing effective processes for school improvement based on monitoring, review and evaluation principles.  
• Supporting church schools and academies in their preparation for and response to Ofsted and SIAMS inspections. 
• Advising school leaders on the development of the distinctive Christian character and the promotion of spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in the life of their schools and academies.

Our ideal candidate will: 

• Be an experienced Headteacher with experience of delivering school improvement and educational excellence.
• Have the ability to build strong professional relationships, have challenging conversations and hold senior school leaders to account with sensitivity and understanding.
• Show evidence of good leadership and organisational skills and have the ability to prioritise tasks, risks and opportunities.
• Be a Christian and committed to the role that church schools play in the formal education and raising of standards.

For full details of the job please see the job description and person specification.   

What we offer:  

• We are recruiting for two roles.  For the full-time post we offer a salary of £55,000-£58,000 for 37.5 hours per week.  For the part time post we offer a pro-rata salary of £44,000 – 46,400 per annum role for 30 hours per week, with flexibility as to how and when the hours are spread within the working week 
• Flexi-time and the opportunity to apply to use the DBF’s remote working policy to work from home for part of the week.     
• The full time role is offered with 28 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and two privilege days per year and the part time role is offered with a 0.8 pro-rata equivalent.
• Membership of the Church Worker’s Pension Scheme with a 15.1% employer contribution and an employee contribution between 0-6%.   
• Free parking, and the ride to work scheme and development opportunities     

As an employer, and as a Church House team, our mutual values at work are to be Respectful, Professional, Flexible and Supportive.

Chichester DBF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.  All post holders are expected to share this commitment and to comply with the relevant safeguarding policy. Our full safeguarding policy can be found here  

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and completion of the Church of England Confidential Declaration Form.
  
To understand how the information you supply in your Confidential Declaration Form is used and your rights with respect to that data please read our privacy notice. 
The post will involve travelling around the Diocese, some evening work and occasional work at weekends. 
 
Please note this is post to which a Genuine Occupational Requirement under paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act applies, the requirement being that the post holder is a practising Christian.

For more information about the Education Team at the Diocese of Chichester please visit https://schools.chichester.anglican.org/

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.