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Governor

Queen Elizabeth's Academy

Nottinghamshire

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Job type:
Part Time, Temporary
Apply by:
28 July 2024

Job overview

Are you looking to make a difference in your community? We are looking for people with new ideas and a fresh perspective to join our committed and friendly committee.

Diverse Academies is a multi-academy trust with a vision to inspire, to raise aspirations and to create brighter tomorrows. Across primary, secondary and special settings, we share a common mission to nurture curiosity, develop wellbeing and empower children and young people to go beyond their aspirations. Together, we believe we can make a difference in our diverse communities, and in the lives of those who learn with us and work with us.

We empower. We respect. We care.

Being an Academy Committee member is a hugely rewarding form of voluntary work. Governors make a real difference to our pupils and our local community by actively contributing to the success of our academies. We would like to hear from people with a range of skills and experiences; in particular, we welcome applications from people with an interest in ensuring all children receive the best education and secure their best outcomes to be able to take the career route of their choice.

Applications are also invited from those who have previous Chairing or governance experience. You don’t need to have background knowledge of the education sector to join an Academy Committee – we want people with diverse skills, fresh perspectives and new ideas that complement the experience of our academy leadership teams.

Becoming a governor can also be good for your career. Holding a position on a committee of any kind tells prospective employers that your skills and experience are highly valued. It marks you out as a leader in your field, whether that’s in HR, marketing, finance or any other area, and by joining the academy committee of an educational organisation, you are directly contributing to the future success of thousands of children.

If you’re passionate about education, then becoming an Academy Committee member is a great opportunity to drive change in this sector – and we will provide you with support and guidance in your journey from our experienced governors.

If you’d like to know more about the role and how you can apply, please contact  queenelizabethsgovernors@queenelizabeths-ac.org.uk

Your commitment

A rewarding and valuable role, our academy governors are mainly responsible for:

  • Ensuring that every child in an academy reaches their full potential by holding the Executive Principal and Principal to account by monitoring the academy’s performance
  • Ensuring that the curriculum intent and quality of education is right for the students at the academy
  • Contributing to the development of strategic priorities and monitoring achievement towards targets for the academy. Governors ensure these are clear and ambitious and which will raise school improvement and are sufficiently challenging to lead to sustainable improvement

Our Academy Committee meets on Thursday evenings at 4.30pm six times per year at Queen Elizabeths Academy and via Microsoft Teams. Meetings typically last up to two hours, and governors devote additional time to prepare for meetings, attend training and academy events. You may also be asked to become a link governor to a particular area of academy life.

Diverse Academies and its governors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects everybody to share this commitment. We actively seek DBS enhanced clearance checks and any application will automatically include the active pursuit of all safeguarding procedures.

This is a volunteer role, but travel expenses will be reimbursed in line with our expenses policy.

About Queen Elizabeth's Academy

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At Queen Elizabeth’s Academy we believe that all students are entitled to an academic, rigorous education with knowledge at its core. We promote a grammar style education for everyone.

Our dedicated and expert staff ensure that every day, every minute of every lesson counts. Our teaching staff are extremely high-quality subject specialists and they impart their knowledge with evidence based practice which ensures that students retain the knowledge they are taught. After all, if students don’t remember it, then many would argue it wasn’t learnt at all!

Our vision is that our students leave us with the knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to compete with their peers on a level playing field. We are determined not to let our students down by offering them anything less than students would receive at the best schools in the country – our students deserve just as rich an experience and we are determined that they shall have it. This also means that our expectations are extremely high for every student, and we know that high expectations are a key factor in improving student aspiration and, ultimately, student achievement.

We have a commitment to ensuring that all students have access to the best academic curriculum, but we also value greatly the opportunity for students to have access to the arts, sport, music and performance – we ensure that these experiences also have equal value on our curriculum.

We operate a warm:strict philosophy at Queen Elizabeth’s. We are unapologetically strict when it comes to expectations of ones self and others, but we also value highly our relationships between staff and students, ensuring that barriers to learning are removed and that students feel safe and a sense of belonging. We want them to feel love for their fellow peers and to feel loved by an academy that knows that they can achieve great things and will accept nothing less than their best efforts to get there.

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