Trust Associate (Governor)
Fairfax Multi Academy Trust (FMAT)
Birmingham
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Voluntary
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As required
- Apply by:
- 1 September 2024
Job overview
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is offering an opportunity for the right person to make a real difference to the outcomes and life chances of young people across Birmingham and Solihull.
Our schools
- Fairfax Academy
- Erdington Academy
- Bournville School
- Smith’s Wood Academy
This is an opportunity to give something back to the local community and use and develop your own skills in a board-level environment. We need individuals willing to commit some of their time and apply their skills and experience to be an Associate within Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust.
We serve students from a wide range of backgrounds, including some in challenging circumstances. We have higher than average proportions of students from disadvantaged homes and with special educational needs. We firmly believe that every student has the right to realise their full potential and to do that, they need to experience a high-quality education in a supportive environment to help them achieve their career aspirations and live their lives to the full.
We are seeking to appoint a number of Associates with a range of skills, including education, finance, human resources, risk management, health and safety, and estates.
Key elements of being an Associate include:
- Holding leaders to account for the school’s performance and delivery of annual improvement plans
- Overseeing the operational activity of the school
We know many organisations like your own are increasingly setting aside time and encouraging their staff to take on community roles such as this and see the benefits this can bring to you as well as us.
The role of an Associate can be challenging, but it can be hugely rewarding, too. It will give the individual the chance to make a real difference to young people, give something back to their local community, and use and develop their own skills in a board-level environment.
It can help you to:
- Develop broader skills such as leadership and accountability, influencing and decision-making
- Experience and gain insight into a complex organisation in another sector, including the inter-relationship of all functions (HR, finance, estates)
- Understand a different perspective through experiencing an environment very different from your day-to-day work
Brief role description
Commitment:
- Attend five Academy Association Meetings per annum
- Undertake training and school visits (ideally, 3 half-days a year), supporting school activities and ad hoc panels
- Circa 50 hours per annum, including meeting preparation, ad hoc meetings and school visits
Responsibilities:
- Scrutinise the impact of expenditure of the budget allocated to the Academy by Directors
- Carry out the Trust’s vision, policies and priorities
- Scrutinise the academic performance of the Academy as defined by the Trust Board
- Support the Trust Board and its committees in relation to the impact of additional funding (Pupil Premium, Catch-up and Sports Premium)
- Advise and act as a critical friend to the Principal and advise the Trust Board about local issues they need to consider
- Represent the interests of the Academy community in the running of the Academy and represent the Academy in its community
- Provide support to the Principal in undertaking appropriate day-to-day procedures that are essential to the life of the Academy
- Ensure the Academy operates within the ethos, values and mission of the Trust
There is an expectation that Associates will be available to support Behaviour Panels and PX hearings.
Closing date: 4.00pm on 1 September 2024.
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of[1]offenders-act-1974
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About Fairfax Multi Academy Trust (FMAT)
- Fairfax Multi Academy Trust (FMAT)
- Fairfax Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B75 7JT
- United Kingdom
Fairfax Multi Academy Trust is a family of schools aiming to develop articulate, resilient and ambitious students, regardless of background, with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to excel in modern Britain. We want the very best for all our students across the trust because we believe that demographics should not determine destiny.
We have over 3000 students across our four campuses around the city of Birmingham and almost half of those students are eligible for free school meals. We are looking for dedicated professionals who want to take on the challenge of eradicating educational disadvantage: why should a child's life chances be decided by their postcode or background? We believe that every child deserves the same high standard of education to change their lives.
Each of our four campuses across the city of Birmingham has a traditional approach with old-fashioned values where courtesy, manners and respect are central . You can find live vacancies by clicking on our campus pages below:
Bournville School
Erdington Academy
Fairfax Academy
Smith's Wood Academy
Each academy is an environment where excellence is a daily pursuit that is expected through high standards of presentation and quality of work. We believe there is dignity in hard work and our dedicated staff go the extra mile for our students to not only ensure that they succeed academically, but develop a depth of character through their everyday and extra-curricular experiences. We expect every child to challenge themselves, fostering our students' aspirations, supporting them to overcome obstacles to pursue their goals and achieve their ambitious aims in life.
We are looking for more dedicated professionals to join our family to contribute to our mission, exuding and extending our values.
Our core values and beliefs:
· Excellence – We strive for the highest quality to ensure excellent outcomes
· Dedication – We believe there is dignity in hard work and effort
· Ambition – We want the very best for our students
· Integrity – We believe in openness and transparency
· Tradition – We believe in old fashioned manners, courtesy and respect
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