Service Leader - Education & Lifelong Learning

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 5 - Flexi.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

Angus is a great place to live, learn, work and visit.

We are seeking an exceptional leader with a track record in improvement, a commitment to systems leadership and an understanding of the current educational policy landscape and how this can shape our future offer to improve outcomes for the people of Angus. Our aim is for all of our learners to be supported to achieve more than anyone ever thought was possible.

As Service Leader in the Education and Lifelong Learning Directorate, the successful candidate will work with colleagues across the council. You will be responsible for the continued development and design of the curriculum; the quality of learning and teaching; assessment and moderation and ensuring improvements in outcomes for our children, young people and families. Extensive experience in being ‘data driven’ is essential.

This role also involves working closely with the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland.

Our team of four Service Leaders work together to ensure the development of a coherent offer across 2-18 and are supported by the Angus Education Improvement School, our in-house improvement service.

The remit includes the responsibility for line management of all secondary schools.

If you have the drive and talent to take on this demanding and extremely rewarding role please apply.

The successful candidate will be placed on Local Government salary and terms and conditions, or SNCT salary and terms and conditions if applicable.

Further details of the terms and conditions are in attached documents.

Grade/Salary:
LGE Terms & Conditions £83,597 - £89,967
SNCT Terms & Conditions £88,722

For an informal discussion, please contact Neil Lowden, Director of Education and Lifelong Learning at LowdenN@angus.gov.uk

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.