Assistant Director

at  ESTYN

JOB SUMMARY

You will be responsible for helping us set our strategic direction and ensuring our inspections and thematic reviews are delivered to a high quality to support improvement in education and training in Wales. You’ll be an education leader with a strong track record of securing improvements, ideally with experience of our work across post-16 tertiary education sectors or within local government education services.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key tasks include:

• Lead and set direction for Estyn’s future work as part of our senior leadership team, and ensure that our organisational development and culture supports this
• Develop and deliver inspection frameworks, guidance and practice across the sectors you are responsible for to ensure continuous improvement in performance and inspection practice
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality cyclical inspection programmes and thematic reviews
• Edit, corroborate and quality assure inspection and thematic reports
• Develop strong relationships with our key partners across the education system
• Lead, advise, inform and influence policy discussions with Medr and the Welsh Government
• Identify and oversee the development of activities to build capacity and promote best practice in the education system in Wales
• Line manage and develop a group of inspectors

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Key tasks include:

• Lead and set direction for Estyn’s future work as part of our senior leadership team, and ensure that our organisational development and culture supports this
• Develop and deliver inspection frameworks, guidance and practice across the sectors you are responsible for to ensure continuous improvement in performance and inspection practice
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality cyclical inspection programmes and thematic reviews
• Edit, corroborate and quality assure inspection and thematic reports
• Develop strong relationships with our key partners across the education system
• Lead, advise, inform and influence policy discussions with Medr and the Welsh Government
• Identify and oversee the development of activities to build capacity and promote best practice in the education system in Wales
• Line manage and develop a group of inspector