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Strategic Leadership Group

Faith life in the Trust, Trust Mission: Overall Strategic development and growth planning. Accounting Officer and statutory requirements.
Member, trustee and Board Relationships and Management. Strategic Landscape and national agenda relationships. STOC growth and development strategy.

Experience and Impact

Headteacher of Holy Family RC & CE College 2016 – 2019
School judged as “Good” in 2019. Progress 8 Score 2016 0.26, 2017 0.31, 2019 0.54
Executive Headteacher 2019
Headteacher of St Monica’s RC High School 2019 -2021
School removed from Special Measures and judged as RI in December 2019.
Progress 8 Score 2019 0.18

David Harrison

Chief Operation Officer / Interim responsibility for Finance

Responsibilities

Operation: HR Service, Payroll Service, Estates Service, Health and Safety Service
Finance: Transactional Financial Process Service, School Business Partnering
Procurement Service, Internal Audit Assurance,
External Audit Assurance

Experience and Impact

36 years’ experience in senior commercial roles.
Director of Operations David Ross Education Trust. 2014-2019.
Led Trust-wide office and estates restructure and School staffing review using curriculum-based budgeting model.
Chief Operations Officer 2020-23 Nene Education Trust.
Extensive experience at Local Governing Body level for turn-around/ intervention boards.
Trustee and Chair of Trust Epworth Education Trust.

Jenny Bonson

Chief Information Officer

Responsibilities

Technical IT Service, Educational IT Service, Data and Insights Service, PR, Marketing and Comms Service, Local Governance Service, Administration Service

Experience and Impact

Trust Wide Director of Digital Learning and IT 2022 -2023.
Experienced Secondary Education Senior Leader.
Background in leading on raising standards, assessment, data and exams strategy – with a track record of improving outcomes at departmental and whole school Level.
Experience of implementing complex digital strategy, including core infrastructure changes and the creation of technical teams to support school development.
Experience of leading the use of PedTech to improve Teaching and Learning and aid school improvement.
SLE in Assessment and Computer Science.
Previous experience in working in the Tech Sector for Google.

Phil Smith

Chief Performance Officer

Responsibilities

School Improvement Service, Safeguarding Service, Attendance Service, Professional and Career Development Service

Experience and Impact

Qualified Teacher with a range of middle and senior leadership experience across Secondary Schools in the North West. Former HMI and National Lead for history and inspector training. Local Authority senior school improvement officer and accredited School Improvement Partner in Secondary, Primary and special school phase. Ofsted Inspector. Director of Education for a multi academy trust. The impact of this work has seen school wide improvements. These include sustained improvements in outcomes, attendance and behaviour as well as sustained trust wide improvement.

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