Service Director Education, Chief Education Officer - EDN28733

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Service Director Education, Chief Education Officer
Waverley Court

Salary: £133,374
Hours: 36 per week

The Service Director for Education and Chief Education Officer is responsible to the Executive Director for Children, Education & Justice Services. This is a strategic and influential role providing leadership in the development of service excellence, improving attainment and ensuring positive outcomes for children and young people. Working as a core member of the council's senior leadership team with lead responsibility for providing advice, guidance, professional governance and support on all matters relating to Education within the City of Edinburgh.

We are looking for an exceptional senior leader with significant knowledge and experience of leadership in Education. When applying, please evidence how you've made a difference to the lives of children in the last 6 months.

Amanda Hatton, Executive Director, Children, Education & Justice Services looks forward to your application. If you'd like more information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Amanda at Amanda.Hatton@edinburgh.gov.uk.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Requirements

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.