Reporting to:                  Principal

Location:                          Hyde Park Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, Southsea

                                             PO5 4HL

Contract:                           Permanent

Working Pattern:           Full Time

Salary:                                Leadership level: L17-21
Closing date:                    Friday 23 April 2021 at 9am

Charter Academy is part of the Ark network of schools, one of the largest and most successful multi-academy trusts in the country. Ark is renowned for its approach to staff development, with high quality training provided at every level for both teaching and non-teaching staff.

Since becoming an Ark school, Charter’s outcomes have improved and the quality of provision has enabled pupils to leave the academy far better prepared for the future. The academy’s most recent Ofsted inspection judged its overall effectiveness to be good. The school’s buildings are modern and fit-for-purpose and a new block has been added as the school moves from four to six forms of entry. Pupil numbers are strong, and the school has a dedicated and ambitious team of staff.

Ark is hugely committed to the school and will invest whatever is necessary to ensure our pupils in Portsmouth are provided with a standard of education that is the match for the best nationally. We are now seeking a Vice Principal who shares our vision for Charter and has the skills, drive and commitment to help us achieve our ambitions for the school.

The role

As Vice Principal, your exact role, and specific responsibilities, will be agreed annually and will change, to allow you the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of academy’s leadership. You will have the opportunity to lead on such areas as curriculum development, systems and procedures, timetabling, monitoring standards and teacher effectiveness, tracking and analysis of results/data, behaviour management, external relations and community links, staff development, training and induction.

As a member of the senior leadership team, you will also be centrally involved in the overall leadership and management of the academy and will help to establish a school culture that is both nurturing and rigorous.

To apply

For further information on this brilliant opportunity as well as the fantastic benefits available, please see the job description and person specification below. Please make an application via the online recruitment portal.

Job description and person specification 

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process which will include questions about safeguarding.

This process is outlined here, but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service.