Assistant Director (Grade 6) – His Majesty’s Inspector
Estyn - His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales
Cardiff
- New
- Salary:
- £70,455 – £82,245 plus a £6,920 recruitment and retention allowance per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 December 2024
Job overview
Assistant Director (Grade 6) – His Majesty’s Inspector
Deadline to apply: 10am on 28 November 2024
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £70,455 – £82,245 plus a £6,920 recruitment and retention allowance per annum (Please note, starting salary will normally be offered at the minimum of the band)
We are looking for two of the brightest and best leaders to join us as Assistant Directors in our senior leadership team. In this role, you’ll manage a team of inspectors as well as leading on cross-organisation responsibilities.
Our Assistant Directors work across sectors, but for these two roles experience of leading work across tertiary education or within local authority education services would be an advantage.
Key tasks include:
- Lead and set direction for Estyn’s future work as part of our senior leadership team, and ensure that our organisational development and culture supports this
- Develop and deliver inspection frameworks, guidance and practice across our post-16 sectors to ensure continuous improvement in performance and inspection practice
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality cyclical inspection programmes and thematic reviews
- Edit, corroborate and quality assure inspection and thematic reports
- Develop strong relationships with our key partners across the education system
- Lead, advise, inform and influence policy discussions with Medr and the Welsh Government
- Identify and oversee the development of activities to build capacity and promote best practice in the education system in Wales
- Line manage and develop a group of inspectors
Welsh Language: We work in both Welsh and English and many of our stakeholders are bilingual. For this post Welsh language skills (spoken and written) are desirable.
Work hours and flexible working: Full time hours are 37 hours over a five day week (Monday to Friday), excluding breaks.
About Estyn - His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales
- Estyn - His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales
- Anchor Court / Llys Angor, Keen Road / Heol Keen, Cardiff / Caerdydd
- Cardiff
- CF24 5JW
- United Kingdom
Estyn’s aim is to raise standards and quality in education and training in Wales through the inspection of education and training providers in Wales and through the reporting of its findings.
Estyn is responsible for inspecting:
• Early years provision in the non-maintained sector;
• Primary schools;
• Secondary schools;
• Special schools (including independent special schools);
• Pupil referral units;
• Independent schools;
• Further education;
• Voluntary youth agencies;
• Local education authorities (LEAs);
• Teacher education and training;
• Work-Based Learning;
• Careers Wales companies;
• The education, guidance and training elements of Jobcentre Plus Programmes;
• Adult Community-Based Learning.
As well as our inspection work, Estyn provides evidence-based advice that contributes to the development of education and lifelong learning policy in Wales.
The advice includes work commissioned annually by the Welsh Assembly Government on specific aspects of education and training.
Estyn is independent of, but funded by, the Welsh Assembly Government under Section 104 of the Government of Wales Act 1998.
Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector and her staff are civil servants. In addition to employed staff and secondees, Estyn contracts with a large number of organisations and independent inspectors to carry out its maintained school inspections and some other work.
Estyn’s main office is in Cardiff with a smaller office in Mold, North Wales.
You can find out more about Estyn’s work and read our reports on our website at www.estyn.gov.uk
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