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November 8, 2024
ESTYN
Cardiff
FULL TIME & OTHER
Assistant Director
Details
Reference number
378174
Salary
£70,455 - £82,245
£70,455 – 82,245 plus a £6,920 recruitment and retention allowance per annum
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Grade 6
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
ESTYN - Inspection
Type of role
Education and Training
Working pattern
Full-time
Number of jobs available
2
Contents
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Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location
Cardiff, Wales, CF24 5JW
About the job
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
Person specification
It’s essential that you:
- Have management or specialist experience and expertise in one or more fields of education or training that we inspect
- Understand the Welsh Government and Medr’s strategies, policies, plans and initiatives for education and training in Wales and keep up to date with new developments
- Evidence a desire to improve education and training in Wales and an understanding of our key role in this mission
- Are aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, engaging colleagues, policy-makers and stakeholders constructively in professional dialogue
- Have strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to develop positive collaborative working relationships with colleagues at all levels
- Have effective editing skills to ensure the delivery of high-quality inspection and thematic reports
- Have experience of the successful application of quality assurance and improvement approaches and/or inspection in practice
- Manage or oversee the management of resources and projects to ensure effective service delivery
- Provide leadership and direction to staff working in dispersed locations
- Make sound judgements and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding and time-pressured situations
- Analyse and interpret management and other information and data to inform planning, inspection, reporting and advice
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £70,455, ESTYN contributes £20,410 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- 31 days annual leave, plus 10 bank holidays
- Civil Service Pension Scheme
- Flexible working options
- Wellbeing support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Generous family friendly policies
- Access to a range of discounts and exclusive offers
- Opportunities for professional development
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.
The selection process includes:
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
- A sift of applications: The panel will consider all complete applications. The information you give us in your application is important in deciding whether we will invite you to the next selection stage.
- Assessment and Interview: Candidates invited to assessment and interview will again be assessed on their skills, experience and behaviours in relation to the person specification. This will take place on 13 December 2024 at our office in Anchor Court, Keen Road, Cardiff CF24 5JW.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
Name :
HR Team
Email :
recruitment@estyn.gov.wales
Telephone :
02920 446336
Email :
recruitment@estyn.gov.wales
Further information
https://www.estyn.gov.wales/working-us/current-vacancies
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