Job vacancy details

Frontier Learning Trust is a small Academy Trust comprising of Woodhouse College and The Imperial Maths School. Woodhouse College is a popular and oversubscribed 16-19 academy of around 1500 full-time students, all on A level courses, on a vibrant campus in north London. The Imperial Maths School opened in September 2023. This school is a specialist sixth form based on the Woodhouse College site. It currently has 126 students and is based in temporary classrooms.

 

The Trust is proud of its strong community spirit and friendly supportive atmosphere. Our success rates and A*-B pass rates for both institutions are among the best in the country. Our students are ambitious, lively and committed to doing well. Staff work hard and morale is high; this is a great place to work.

 

 

 

 

This is a wonderful opportunity for a highly-organised and flexible individual to support the effective operation of the Board, sub-committees, governors and members in line with the Articles of Association, Scheme of Delegation and relevant legal and regulatory requirements. As a senior postholder, you will be line managed by the Chair of Trustees and work closely with the CEO and others, on matters of regulation, good practice and appropriate procedures in the governance sphere.

 

This is a part-time role which will involve working the equivalent of two days per week. The role involves a degree of flexibility to meet the demands of supporting Trust with both regular meetings and less predictable events like complaints, panels and hearings. You will be required to work around 20 evenings in any academic year on a Monday to attend Trustee and Governor meetings - attendance at a handful of other events may also be required. The annual leave entitlement is equivalent to 5.6 weeks during the academic year. The Trust offers a very attractive pension scheme and other benefits including a cycle to work scheme. We promote health and wellbeing and provide an excellent employee assistance programme which is free for all staff.

 

We are looking for a committed person with relevant Governance qualifications or NGA training and experience of an equivalent role. We are also looking for someone with an appreciation of confidentiality, discretion, excellent organisation skills and accurate minute-taking.

 

As this is a senior postholder role, the salary is determined by the trustees and is not based on a salary scale. The salary will be between £30,000 and £36,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

 

Interested applicants are welcome to hear more about the role from our current postholder by contacting personnel@woodhouse.ac.uk

 

The closing date for applications is 9am on Thursday 18th June. Interviews are anticipated to take place on Monday, 29 June 2026.

 

This is a senior postholder appointment and the person appointed will be line managed by the Chair of Trustees. It is an all year round post. We envisage the role to require the equivalent of two days per week on average. The work tends to be unevenly spaced throughout the year and we expect the postholder will be able to spread their attention to this role throughout a working week. The leave allowance for the role is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks and this, along with working patterns would be arranged in discussion with the Chair.

 

Meetings are typically on Monday evenings and there are around twenty of these each year. Committee meetings all take place online. Each school’s LGB and most Trust meetings are in person at the shared campus in North Finchley. There are conference facilities for trustees and governors who need to attend remotely. In addition to these meetings, there is an event in January for all trustees and governors, and this tends to alternate between being hosted on the FLT site or at Imperial College London.

 

Below are listed the specific requirements of the role.

 

• Develop an understanding of the Trust, its work and its governance personnel at all levels

• Support the effective operation of the Board, sub-committees and members in line with the Articles of Association, Scheme of Delegation and relevant legal and regulatory requirements

• Support the Chair of the Trust, the CEO and others as necessary on matters of regulation, good practice and appropriate procedures in the governance sphere

• Understand and advise on regulations regarding safeguarding, confidentiality and education

• Support the governance aspects of panel hearings on complaints, exclusions, other behaviour matters and admissions where needed

• Support other panels and investigations where they concern senior staff according to Trust policies

• Support the Trust through inspections and other accountability processes as required

• Keep orderly records via Governorhub and other means

• Prepare meeting agendas and complete accurate minutes in a timely manner

• Prepare the annual governance calendar and communicate effectively about meeting arrangements

• Track actions to completion and likewise the writing and updating of Trust policies

• Informally and formally monitor attendance and contributions to help keep trustees and governors effective, engaged and compliant

• Undertaking training and development relevant to the post.

• Undertaking any other duties as reasonably directed by the Chair and CEO.

 

 

• Relevant governance qualifications or NGA training

• Ability to contribute to improving the Trust’s governance framework

• Strong understanding of DfE governance protocols and procedures (Academy Trust Handbook, KCSIE, SEND, etc)

• Confidence in working with and challenging chairs, CEOs, headteachers and trustees

• Sound judgement when dealing with thorny issues

• Be very effective with verbal and written communication and clarity of messaging

• Be good at listening as well as advising

• Have appreciation of confidentiality and boundaries

• Be well-organised, effective at time-management, accurate with minute-taking, appropriate AI-use

• Ability to operate strategically and effectively within a part-time position

• Commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and ethical governance best practice

• Experience of the governance professional role during an Ofsted inspection

 

• Extensive experience of managing the governance aspects of complaints, behaviour and admissions panels and processes

Please go to the following links to read the letter from the Chair of Trustees, further information about the Trust and for downloadable documents of the information included in this advert.  Please note, the links will no longer be available after the vacancy deadline.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the benefits of working at the Trust: