The Loughborough Schools Foundation
Leicestershire
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 September 2026
Apply by:
7 October 2025
Job overview
We are seeking a visionary Chief Executive Officer to lead our strategic development and ensure long-term sustainability. This transformational role will unite our Schools under a shared purpose while preserving their individual identities, enabling our Heads to focus fully on educational excellence.
The successful candidate will bring significant leadership experience, ideally within education, with a proven track record of driving organisational performance and commercial growth. This is an opportunity to shape the future of a remarkable Foundation that serves as a cornerstone of its community.
The CEO will develop and articulate our vision, oversee financial and operational performance, and build strategic partnerships that strengthen our position. We seek someone who is dynamic, forward-thinking and passionate about young people's development – a leader who can navigate challenge with resilience while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture of continuous improvement.
Located in the heart of Leicestershire, the Foundation balances heritage with innovation, providing education that combines academic achievement with personal and social development – ensuring its pupils leave not just with knowledge, but with the broader skills and values they need to succeed in their chosen paths.
Each Foundation School has distinct character, traditions and leadership, shaped by committed staff and visionary Heads. This is strengthened further by their collective Foundation identity. The schools share one campus, specialist facilities, expertise and central services, as well as a commitment to delivering the highest quality education.
This is a role that would suit someone who has an educational background who wishes to step back from the day to day running of schools, and instead focus on the strategic and commercial development of the Foundation. Equally, the role would suit someone who has not come up through a teaching route but understands the world of education and has transferable skills that enable them to be effective in this role.
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About The Loughborough Schools Foundation
The Loughborough Schools Foundation
3 Burton Walks
Loughborough
LE11 2DU
United Kingdom
The Loughborough Schools Foundation traces its roots back to 1495 with the opening of the Grammar School in Loughborough's Parish Church. More than five centuries later, the Foundation looks back on this history with pride, but looks to the present and beyond as a progressive family of schools and a cornerstone of the community as one of the largest employers in the thriving University town.
Today, the Foundation comprises a Nursery, a Prep School and two Senior Schools, offering high quality education from six weeks through to eighteen years. Each School has its own identity and traditions, but they are united by shared values and a strong sense of community where every pupil is known and supported.
The Loughborough Schools Foundation employs approximately 750 staff in both teaching and support roles. The three Heads are responsible for the management of educational activities whilst business aspects of the Foundation are managed by the centralised functions of finance, estates, health & safety, catering, the network services, human resources and the development office.
The schools enjoy a very high reputation for their academic, cultural and sporting achievements, and for the quality of their pastoral care. Situated at a very pleasant 39 acre campus on the south side of Loughborough.
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