Volunteer Trustee for Multi Academy Trust

What will you be doing?

  The ethos behind the Trust is around sustainable school improvement through shared understanding and collaboration; schools joining the Trust do so with the prime aim of improving each other so that they can all become outstanding schools. The Trust wants children to be the best they can be both academically and personally, with an emphasis on leadership development. The Trust wants to ensure that schools within the Trust remain appropriately challenged with greater focus on higher-level scrutiny and strategic planning. The accountability framework needs to be designed so that it can be scaled up as more schools join the Trust, aligned to the scheme of delegation. Trustees – or non-executive directors - are both charity Trustees and company directors of the academy Trust. The core functions of their role are: ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction; holding executive leaders to account for the educational and financial performance of a charitable company funded by the public purse. The Board of Trustees manages the business of the academy Trust and may exercise all the powers of the Trust in compliance with its charitable objects, company and charity law. Every Trustee is expected to abide by the seven principles of public life set out by Lord Nolan: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

What are we looking for?

Accounting and Finance Education Human Resources Audit & Risk Legal / Compliance

What difference will you make?

The opportunity to be involved in strategic discussion and decision making that shapes the future growth of our Multi Academy Trust and educational outcomes for children.  Our Trust schools have a high proportion of disadvantaged children and by being part of the Trust Board you will have the opportunity to make a difference to their lives.