St Chad’s is a Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), for the Diocese of Lichfield, is seeking to appoint a Chair of the Trust Board to provide visionary, innovative, and strategic non-executive leadership to the Board of Trustees and to work effectively, efficiently, and creatively with the CEO, to drive the Trust’s future vision, through evolution not revolution.

Through an embedded and strong support system, the Chair’s aim is to continue to enable and steer the Board to fulfil its responsibilities for setting the strategic direction of the Trust, ensuring clarity of vision, ethos, and strategic direction and its overall governance, ensuring compliance in line with regulation and legislation, and the objects of our articles.

Developing an effective work partnership with the CEO, the Chair will optimise relations with trustees, empower employees, enhance trustee participation and visibility within our academies, to achieve the aims of the organisation. In addition to the general responsibilities of a trustee, the Chair has specific public duties.

The Trust is interested in individuals with wide-ranging experience (in the education sector is desirable) and must be able to demonstrate proven leadership capability as well as a commitment to education  and the Trust’s vision and values founded in its Christian origin.

In making this appointment we are looking for an inspirational, motivated, and visionary leader, who will seek to further enhance the next stages of our Trust’s journey, through collaboration, challenge to achieve the best possible opportunities for the children and communities we serve through holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation.

We seek an inspirational, motivated and visionary leader who will help drive the next stage of the Trust’s development by fostering collaboration, providing coaching and challenge to ensure the highest educational, financial and staff performance for the children and communities we serve.