Principal Development Lead, Secondary Mathematics (Maternity Cover)

Reports to: Head of School Development (Secondary)

Location: West London – currently operating an agile working policy with two core days in the office with travel to schools when requested

Contract: FTC (August 2023 to July 2024)

Pattern: Part Time (standard hours 22.5 hours per week) would also consider a term-time-only contract

Closing date: 18/05/2023 at 10am

Interviews: 22/05/2023 and 23/05/2023

Full Time Salary: £42,000 to £52,000 (depending on experience)

Part Time Salary: £25,200 to £31,200 (based on 0.6 FTE)

Passionate about Maths teaching? Love working with people and excited about providing hands-on support to schools? Come and join our lovely Mathematics Mastery team! We are looking for a Maths Secondary Specialist to lead on our work to ensure our one-to-one support to Maths departments is as impactful as possible.

Ark’s non-profit Mathematics Mastery programme originally pioneered the introduction of the mastery approach in the UK and is one of the only approaches to mastery at KS3 that has a proven impact on GCSE results.

Our programmes uniquely combine curriculum resources with integrated CPD, assessment and one-to-one expert support, so that schools can be confident that their students will get the best subject teaching. In this role you will not only support your own portfolio of schools, but you will also work in collaboration with peers in other subjects to refine our school support model, and you will manage our network of maths secondary Associate Development Leads to ensure they also provide consistently high impact support.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide one-to-one school development support across a portfolio of partner schools based on our codified school support model, tailored as needed to schools’ needs, to ensure that they have a good experience and can implement our programmes successfully to gain the intended immediate and longer-term impact
• Work with peers in other subject teams to continue to review and refine the design and codification of our school support offer, to ensure one-to-one support provided to schools in the Mathematics Mastery partnership has the greatest impact on outcomes
• Ensure school support design and guidance makes this an integrated part of our programmes, working alongside our CPD, assessment and other programme elements to drive the best outcomes in schools
• Manage comms with maths secondary Associate Development Leads to ensure that they feel a valued part of our extended family and are motivated and briefed to represent the organisation effectively
• Develop and deliver Associate Development Lead training for maths secondary to ensure a consistent high standard of delivery
• Build and maintain expertise by engaging with ongoing CPD and keep up to date with programme and sector developments, including legislative changes and innovative practice in your subject and in curriculum development and CPD delivery as a whole
• Be the first port of call for the partnerships team to support partnerships initiatives including leading webinars or information sessions
• Be proactive in identifying viable opportunities to strengthen the partnership and drive high levels of satisfaction and retention
• Work collegiately to support other members of the subject team with different aspects of the maths secondary programme as needed to support the programme’s success
• Support maths secondary colleagues with broader priorities as needed, including designing programmes resources, and developing training and CPD to an excellent standard in line with internal guidelines
• Feedback insights from school support in subject meetings and contribute to the development of the overall programme strategy

Key Requirements:

• Qualified to teach in the UK and qualified to degree level
• Understanding of the education landscape and issues affecting education
• Up-to-date knowledge and use of the current curriculum and assessment requirements and best practice in implementation and delivery of professional development
• Track record of providing professional development to teachers, including coaching, mentoring and training
• Experience of managing a budget and managing resourcing
• A strong and proactive communicator with a collaborative working style
• Team worker, with demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally

View the full job description and person specification here

About Ark Curriculum Plus

Ark Curriculum Plus is a not-for-profit education venture. Our mission is to empower teachers to give every young person, regardless of their background, the subject knowledge and skills that will allow them to succeed. We believe that great curriculum design and delivery leads to improved teaching and learner outcomes, which impacts positively on children’s life chances.

Our commitment is to empower and equip schools to provide high quality subject teaching, through curriculum and integrated professional development, to develop young people’s subject mastery.

We are grown out of one of the highest performing Multi Academy Trust’s in the UK. Our connection with Ark gives us our experience and our specialist expertise earned while we developed and taught curriculum across our own network of 39 successful academies in the UK.

Our programmes, including Mathematics Mastery, English Mastery, Science Mastery and Geography Mastery, are now used by over 500 schools in the UK, including the 39 schools in the Ark network.  Having pioneered the mastery approach and been recognised by Ofsted, we also influenced the adoption by the Department for Education of a mastery approach to teaching mathematics. It has been proven through independent impact trials that learners on our programmes make additional progress, and the FFT found that Mathematics Mastery has had a statistically significant impact on outcomes at KS4.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service up to 30 days after 3-years’ service. This entitlement is pro rata for part time employees. This entitlement excludes bank holidays
• Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
• Hybrid working, with currently two days a week in our state-of-the-art office in West London working alongside colleagues
• Regular social events, monthly free breakfast, and daily fruit
• A flexible approach to working with understanding and consideration for work life balance and personal commitments
• As an Ark employee, you will have the opportunity to be part of the TPT (The Pension Trust) scheme, our workplace pension scheme where we make an 11% contribution; you are not required to contribute towards this scheme unless you choose to
• Access to high-quality professional learning throughout your career, offering both face-to-face sessions and a bespoke online learning platform
• Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest-free loans available for season tickets or a bike, gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym and free eye tests

How to Apply:

Apply with a CV and cover letter on our online recruitment portal. Applications to be submitted by Thursday 18^th May 2023 at 10am but please note: we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response.

This ATS application form should take no longer 20 minutes to complete. At any time, you can pause, save, and log back in. If you have any difficulty with meeting the deadline for application, please contact recruitment@arkonline.org

Interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. 

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.