Total 3 Director/C-Level Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Manchester, Greater Manchester

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Deputy Director of Learning for Science with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

About Star Salford Academy

Star Salford Academy is a 5-form entry mixed secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds, which opened in September 2023. Like all Star schools, Star Salford Academy has a leadership specialism.

We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

During its opening year, the school admitted an intake of 150 pupils in Year 7. We will continue to admit a new intake of Year 7 pupils at the beginning of each academic year.

Commitment to safeguarding

Star Academies is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of pupils. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aim to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks. We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

Are you an experienced high-level Assistant who is interested in working in an unique environment? Keen to join a department which is at the forefront of SMG's ambitious plans for the future?

About the role
As Executive Assistant to the Director of Estates and the Director of Masterplan, you will have an intimate viewpoint of the organisation and the 5 museums within the Group.

Diligently supporting both Directors, you will managing diaries and often act as first point of contact with inbox management. You will also lead the organisation, support and minuting committees and other instrumental meetings. The glue to the efficient management of a proactive and inspired office, you will communicate on behalf of the Directors with key external contacts, and with colleagues at all levels across the organisation.

The role has real scope for impact - consisting of managing a complex and diverse workload to tight deadlines, and with your own projects to lead. Using your expert judgement, you will proactively manage the correspondence and schedule of the Directors, to ensure the skilful co-ordination of their activities across the Group.

We can offer a hybrid working patter for this position, with a mix of office and home working, however you will need to be able to work from our Manchester site 3 days a week.

Contract: Permanent, Full time 35hour per week
Salary: up to £30,500 per annum, depending on experience

Download the Vacancy Information Pack file under 'Attachments' on this vacancy listing on the Science Museum Group website for more details about the role and the application process.

About you
Highly proactive and confident working with colleagues across all levels of the organisation, as well as the offices of high-profile external leaders - You have exceptional interpersonal and communications skills to maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels. With extensive experience of prioritising and managing multiple and conflicting tasks, diaries and deadlines; responding flexibly to requests, you have a pre-emptive approach to time management that of your own as well as others.

You have a demonstrable ability to take minutes, ideally for board level audiences, to a professional, accurate standard; with the capacity to produce minutes in a timely manner and convert technical jargon to relevant audiences. Resourceful by nature, you can take the reins to draw together people and resources needed to make things happen, with little supervision.

Crucially, you will be highly organised and efficient, with good attention to detail, and an ability to show tact and discretion.

Don't feel you meet all the criteria? We welcome you to apply even if your experience doesn't match perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.

What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.

• Support with personal and professional development
• 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced contributory pension
• Unmind App and other wellbeing support
• Interest-free loans
• Days Out discounts
• BUPA Health & Dental Insurance

Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.

Contract Extended leadership role40 hours/week, full-timeReporting to the Head of SchoolOverviewThe Director of Academic Research & Innovation is a major agent of academic change and strategy. The search engine of pedagogy in the school, they undertake duties overarching the whole school, supporting our unique mission as a modern learning environment with innovation, collaboration and differentiation as core values. This position may require you to teach classes (up to 10 periods/week) to experiment and showcase innovative teaching. Why work with us? An international school 'Outstanding’ in Personal development, behaviour & welfare, and Sixth form provision, where you will join a very strong team of highly qualified and experienced teaching and support teamA welcoming and innovative environment in which to teach and learnA vibrant location, easily accessible by UndergroundGenerous reward and benefit package (see below)Benefits Salary range minimum of £50,000+Additional annual leaveFree 3-course meal cooked fresh in our kitchen everydayFantastic work spaces and resourcesProfessional development opportunities (internal and external)70% contribution to Cash Health PlanCycle to work schemeFree hot drinks throughout the daySocial events and staff partiesContribution towards language classes (French or English)Discount at local businesses including Wembley Costa and Wembley Leisure CentreFree access to Financial Times onlineFree Headspace account for staffAnnual flu jabUndertake any ad-hoc duties as requested by the HeadKey AccountabilitiesTake lead role to launch our online campusFurther develop research on the metaverse and modern learning within a schoolVisit classrooms on a daily basis to ensure and support innovative teachingProvide continued support and training to teachers school-wide in and out of the classroom
Discover, identify and disseminate the best teaching and learning practices; implement and adjust them to our unique bilingual environment in both your own classroom and the rest of the schoolMaintain awareness and engage community in exploration and discussion of educational and IT-related trendsCollaborate with the HR & Staff wellbeing department to include innovation training to CPD daysCommunicate digital policy and practice with studentsCoordinate with Heads of Section to structure process for systematic review and evaluation of educational technology and classroom innovationsCollaborate with IT Manager on all academic technology operations (e.g. planning, developing objectives, implementing actions, monitoring activities, budgeting, etc.)Communicate and liaise regularly with parents (workshops, info sessions, newsletters, individual meetings), ensuring the community has the opportunity to learn about the school’s digital environment and are conversant with our expectations for themselves and their children, vis a vis digital learningCollaborate with the Outreach/Marketing team to facilitate publication of the school's vision for 'Modern Learning' and the status of current initiatives both locally and internationallyPromote the School’s digital vision within and beyond the school community, including direct liaison with other schools, companies, learning forums, and other digital leaders, potentially writing grant projectsCreate collaborations with like-minded schools, firms and institutions and potentially write grant projectsEnsure good management practice by promoting positive staff involvement, effective procedures and communication.What we're looking forA passion for the school’s vision related to innovation and the strong desire to contribute to the wider success of the schoolLeadership and strong management skills as a member of the Extended Leadership TeamIdeally Google Certified Innovator and/or Google Certified Trainer, and Apple Distinguished Educator and/or Apple Education trainerExcellent communication skills, both written and verbal in English and ideally FrenchEngaging and approachable personality (internally and externally for business development)A passion for current educationally-relevant trends in technology, including hardware and software applicationsThe ability to work under pressure during term time and meet deadlinesAbility to see the bigger picture and volunteer time and energy to our project - Open Days, fairs, school eventsAbility to take responsibility for your own professional improvement; engagement with our individual growth programme which aims to develop each professional who works with us.The duties listed are not exhaustive. This job description sets out the duties of the post at the time it was drawn up and may be reviewed and amended to incorporate the future needs of the school. The post holder will be required to undertake other duties within the School from time to time as may be reasonably expected.