Castle Phoenix Trust – Trustee Vacancy

Castle Phoenix Trust – Trustee Vacancy

Castle Phoenix Trust seeks new Board members to join the Trust as part of our strategic succession planning. Directors with experience in HR, Education, Audit and/or Finance are invited to apply to join an established Trust Board. Meetings are held at Axholme Road Coventry. CV2 5BD. Trustees meet up to six times each academic year, with two planning events.

We are seeking Trustees with experience in the following areas

• Accounting and Finance Education Human Resources

• Audit & Risk

 Trustees – or non-executive directors - are both charity Trustees and company directors of the academy Trust. The core functions of their role are: ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction; holding executive leaders to account for the educational and financial performance of a charitable company funded by the public purse.

The Board of Trustees manages the business of the academy Trust and may exercise all the powers of the Trust in compliance with its charitable objects, company and charity law.

Every Trustee is expected to abide by the seven principles of public life set out by Lord Nolan: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

About our Trust

The Castle Phoenix Trust is a growing multi-academy Trust (MAT) founded in February 2013. The Trust consists of six schools - Caludon Castle Secondary School (Coventry), Kingsbury Secondary School (Warwickshire), Hill Farm Primary School (Coventry), Foxford Secondary School (Coventry), Richard Lee Primary School (Coventry) and Charter Primary Academy (Coventry).

The ethos behind the Trust is around sustainable school improvement through shared understanding and collaboration; schools joining the Trust do so with the prime aim of improving each other so that they can all become outstanding schools. The Trust wants children to be the best they can be both academically and personally, with an emphasis on leadership development.

The Trust wants to ensure that schools within the Trust remain appropriately challenged with greater focus on higher-level scrutiny and strategic planning. The accountability framework needs to be designed so that it can be scaled up as more schools join the Trust, aligned to the scheme of delegation.

Governance structure

Relevant governance structure information can be found on our website here: https://castlephoenixTrust.org.uk/Trustee-profiles/

Applications If you are interested in applying for this role or would like an informal discussion, please contact Karen Steele, Deputy Head of Operations karen.steele@castlephoenixtrust.org.uk.

In the interests of safeguarding and in accordance with DfE requirements, all Trustee appointments will be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check by the academy Trust.

Closing date: Monday 19 September 2022