Director of Digital Strategy
Salary: £50,929 - £55,822 per annum (depending on experience)
Grade: L1 – L5
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Pension: 19.6% employer’s contribution
Start date: As soon as possible
Lake Farm Park Academy opened in 2014. It serves the children (over 700) and families of the richly diverse and welcoming community of Hayes in West London. The academy is part of The Park Federation Academy Trust, allowing us to benefit from a wealth of expertise across our academies, as well as enabling us to provide opportunities for sharing of good practice and high quality training.
LFPA is committed to delivering a technology based curriculum to ensure our pupils are equipped with the tech-skills they will need in their education and future employment. At the Park Federation, this initiative is the ‘one to one’ strategy. This strategy will make digital learning a key element to our curriculum, it will teach children how to be confident digital learners and it will reduce the digital divide.
We are looking for a committed and talented leader who has expertise and knowledge in how to use technology effectively in the classroom as a vehicle for learning. The Director of Digital Strategy will be able to guide planning and provision so that teachers and pupils are well-equipped at using chrome books and a range of applications and programmes to make progress in their learning across the curriculum. As well as this, the Director of Digital Strategy will keep well informed and up to date on educational research and will make evidence-based implementations to the curriculum. The Director of Digital Strategy will continually train and develop teachers’ knowledge and application of the digital curriculum across the school.
This role will carry a teaching responsibility as a class teacher with leadership time to focus on developing a digital curriculum across the school.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be an outstanding existing middle or senior leader with a proven track record of impact, creativity and rigour.
- Have a clear understanding of what constitutes outstanding provision for digital learning.
- Be able to identify, drive and secure improvements to ensure high standards in all areas.
- Be the figurehead and spokesperson for digital strategy at academy and federation level.
- Have an excellent knowledge of educational technology and how to implement this effectively as a vehicle for progress and learning.
- Have the ability to evaluate and plan strategically, motivate and inspire both staff and students.
- To have experience of having contributed to policy formulation, implementation, evaluation and review.
- Have a clear understanding of assessment and a proven ability to interpret data and use it to focus improvements.
For the right candidates, we will offer:
- Extensive support and CPD;
- The opportunity to work with other professional colleagues across the Multi-Academy Trust;
- A welcoming school, with friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff team;
- An ambitious and dynamic Senior leadership Team;
- A dedicated Governing Body;
- Supportive parents and children who are keen to learn;
- an employee assistance programme (EAP)
If you would like further information, then please contact Harshindar Buttar, Principal, on
hbuttar@theparkfederation.org. To apply, please complete an application form.
Closing date: As and when we receive successful applications.
