Head of Education Effectiveness

What will you be doing?

This is your opportunity to:  

• Lead a high-impact team across Early Years, School Effectiveness, Governance & Safeguarding 
• Influence policy and practice locally, regionally, and nationally 
• Deliver our Education Improvement Framework 2025–2028 
• Work in partnership with schools, settings, and multi-agency teams 

About you

You will:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent qualification e.g. NVQ 4, HNC  and have  Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• Have significant professional and/or management experience of a strategic operation/service.  
• Have experience of credible and relevant education senior leadership sufficient to secure the confidence of school leaders and other system leaders locally and regionally.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the activities and objectives of the Council, both current and future with a good understanding of the political context at regional and local level and working with Elected Members in a constructive and sensitive way.   
• Will have the ability to successfully influence key decision makers at senior levels, both internal and external to the council.   

Shortlisting w/c 8th December 2025.

Interviews w/c 5th & 12th January 2026.

Should you have any queries, please contact us via email at recruitment@northnorthants.gov.uk.
We kindly ask that you include a brief description of your enquiry to enable us to respond promptly and appropriately.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• A competitive salary
• A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• Lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• Generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)