Job Advert About Us We are a group of schools with ambition for every child and pride in the communities we serve. We prepare young people for lives of opportunity and contribution by offering a broad and rich education. And we know that it is the talented people who work here who make this possible. We are one of largest Multi Academy Trusts in the UK with over 3500 colleagues working together to serve over 22,000 children and young people across our 45 school communities. The Role The Director of Academics and Enrichment exists to design, steward, and continuously strengthen the Trust’s academic and enrichment offer. The role ensures that curriculum, teaching, learning, assessment, and enrichment are coherent, rigorous, and consistently enacted across schools, while remaining responsive to context and specialism. Working alongside other senior leaders the role provides high support and high challenge to ensure strong academic intent translates into high-quality classroom practice, enriched pupil experience, and improved outcomes at scale. For full details about this job, including the person specification please download the attached candidate pack (available via the link on the right hand side of the page). What You Will Lead Academics and Enrichment Frameworks: Lead the design, quality and continuous development of the Trust’s academic and enrichment frameworks, setting clear Trust-wide expectations for ambitious, inclusive curriculum breadth, depth and challenge grounded in strong subject and pedagogical integrity. Teaching and Learning Assessment: Provide high support and high challenge through clear Trust-wide teaching, learning and assessment frameworks, ensuring consistent, high-quality implementation, accurate understanding of pupil progress, and a coherent, rigorous qualifications strategy aligned to the curriculum. Teaching Development and Instructional Practice: Lead the Trust’s approach to teaching development and instructional practice across all career stages, setting clear standards for professional learning, coaching, CPD and supply quality, and overseeing Early Career, teaching assistant and initial teacher training routes to ensure strong alignment with Trust pedagogy and curriculum. Standards Quality and Insights: Use data and evidence to evaluate the impact of curriculum, teaching and instructional development, applying targeted support and proportionate challenge to ensure academic improvement activity is focused, rigorous and evidence-informed. System Leadership: Provide system leadership by working in close partnership with Directors of Education, contributing expert input to Education Committee decision-making, and ensuring academic ambition and enrichment are embedded consistently across the Trust. The Leadership Profile We Are Looking For Essential * Significant senior leadership experience within education. * Proven expertise in curriculum, pedagogy, and teaching and learning. * Experience of leading teaching and curriculum improvement across more than one key stage, subject, or school. * Evidence of using research, evidence and data to improve academic standards. * Demonstrated ability to improve teaching quality through high support and high challenge of leaders and practitioners. * Credibility to work with headteachers, Directors of Education, subject specialists and instructional leaders. Desirable * Qualified Teacher Status. * Postgraduate qualification at Level 7 or equivalent experience. * Experience working across a group of schools, a multi-academy trust, or an ITT context. * Contribution to external networks, partnerships, or research-informed practice. What Kemnal Offers You * Generous Pension Scheme: Secure your future with substantial employer contributions toward your long-term financial wellbeing. * A well being app that supports exercise, mindfulness, and everyday healthy practices. * Retail and Lifestyle Discount Scheme offering savings both online and in store, supporting everyday living costs, and beyond. * Cycle To Work Scheme, supporting affordable access to bikes and promoting active, sustainable travel. * Family Friendly Leave Policies, helping colleagues balance professional commitments with caring responsibilities at different life stages. * Eight-Week Mindfulness Programme, expert-led mindfulness course to support and develop mental resilience. * Counselling Support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for colleagues and their eligible immediate family members. * Tailored continued professional development, to support your in role and /or career progression ambitions. How to apply This is a role for a leader who believes that academic excellence and enrichment are inseparable and that a great education is built through disciplined curriculum design, strong teaching and rich intellectual experience. If you are an academic leader motivated by depth, coherence and impact rather than compliance, and who wants to shape teaching, learning and enrichment across a large and diverse trust, we would welcome your application. Next steps 1. Download the candidate pack and review the full job profile. 2. Complete our online application including a personal statement explaining how you meet the Leadership Profile. 3. Save the interview dates (in the candidate pack). Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full safer recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. Flexible working We recognise the value of enabling our employees to develop their career and balance this with their commitments and interests outside of work. We promote flexible working practices and opportunities to promote a positive work life balance. Our Commitment - Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging At Kemnal, we are committed to Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging. We embrace and celebrate differences, value individual experiences, aspirations, and achievements, and continuously learn how to grow better together. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, as we believe diversity strengthens our community and drives us forward. Access to interview Be Who You Are at Kemnal - should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the recruitment process to enable you to participate as your authentic self. We want applicants to be able to engage with us in ways that support who they are and we are committed to making adjustments within the recruitment process and within the workplace. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .