• Maintain oversight of progress against the strategic priorities and operations of the organisation, pulling the different stands of work together and acting as a connector between different parts of the organisation
• Support the formulation of strategic projects and execute against them
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to drive strategic projects and help unblock complex challenges
• Improve current processes and coordinate procedures to support effective decision making and internal communications
• Support effective meetings of senior leaders by confirming objectives, ensuring relevant stakeholders are in attendance, developing the best approach to achieving the objectives for the meeting and supporting the preparation of pre-reading materials
• Stay close to the data on the organisation’s performance and understand what sits behind this
• Ensuring that the CEO is well prepared for meetings
• Maintaining a calendar of trust events and meetings, ensuring that those responsible send out timely reminders, agendas and pre-reading.
• Keep abreast of emerging and changing education priorities at local, regional and national level

This appointment is subject to verification of the right to work in the UK. Where the successful candidate has worked or been resident overseas in the last five years, such checks and confirmations will be required in accordance with the statutory guidance