Programme Manager - Chrysalis East

A fantastic opportunity to join the Chrysalis East team as Programme Manager at the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham - the Sunday Times ‘State 6th Form College of the Year 2020-21’.

LAE Tottenham opened in September 2017 and has over 700 students on roll as of September 2023. It is an academically selective 16-19 free school harnessing the support of nine independent schools to offer unrivalled educational opportunities to the most ambitious and motivated 16-19 year olds from Haringey and beyond.

Chrysalis East aims to reduce inequalities in progression to highly-selective universities for students across Tottenham. Working in partnership across a network of local schools, this new programme includes academic enrichment, university preparation and careers guidance.

We are looking for a highly organised programme manager to join our innovative school-based outreach team. You will need to be passionate about resolving educational inequality and have a commitment to raising (and measuring!) outcomes for young people.

Chrysalis East seeks to help young people in Tottenham flourish educationally and make better informed choices about their futures. We want to support more young people to achieve the grades to be able to progress to sixth form ensuring our school is accessible to as many young people locally as possible. Whilst based at LAE Tottenham, we work in partnership with a network of local schools and our programme includes academic enrichment, small group teaching, university preparation and careers guidance.

We are seeking an experienced manager to support us in refining and developing our programme offer, think imaginatively about measuring impact and improve how we communicate our work both internally and externally. This is a new role in our team as we look to develop our unique programme.

We are looking for the right person to fill this important and exciting role so we would consider other working arrangements to those listed, please contact helen.drummond@laetottenham.ac.uk if you would like to discuss this.

Pay dependent on experience, is in the range £38,000 to £43,000 (full-time equivalent).

This is a part-time position.

LAE Tottenham

• Academically selective 6th form, opened in September 2017. Results in the top 3% nationally for attainment and progress.

• Principal Education Sponsor Highgate School and Lead Business Sponsor Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

• Partnered by eight other leading independent schools - Alleyn’s, Chigwell, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’, Harrow, John Lyon, North London Collegiate, Mill Hill and St Dunstan’s College, each offering departmental support, CPD, expertise and shared student experiences.

• Providing first-class support into top class higher education and employment, focused on academically ambitious young people

• Opportunities within the Chrysalis East programme, working with local secondary and primary schools to raise attainment across Tottenham

• Housed in a stunning new state of the art school building linked to the Tottenham Hotspur stadium

• Sunday Times ‘State 6th Form College of the Year 2020-21’ and rated "outstanding" in all areas by Ofsted.

LAE Tottenham offers a range of benefits to all directly-employed members of staff, including free breakfast and lunch and access to Benenden Health private healthcare.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates representative of the range of backgrounds of our diverse student body.

LAE Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, if shortlisted, you will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Closing date is 19th July 2024.

Interviews are scheduled to take place in the week beginning 22nd July 2024, but we reserve the right to invite candidates to interview as applications are received.