In this exciting new role, we are searching for an inspirational Head of Community Development to provide visionary leadership for a significant and far reaching strategic initiative: designing and rolling out sustainable community hubs. This is your chance to move beyond the school gates, providing the vision and strategic focus required to champion best practice in community engagement and cement schools as true, vibrant hearts of their communities across Oxfordshire.

We are looking for a visionary strategist to provide the core focus for designing, piloting, and implementing sustainable community hubs.

This pivotal role is dedicated to championing ground-breaking community engagement, ensuring our schools are not just educating students, but are integral, beating hearts that uplift and serve their surrounding communities across the entirety of Oxfordshire county.

The Head of Community Development will champion best practice in community engagement to ensure our schools are placed at the heart of their communities. You will take responsibility for developing and executing a strategic and operational plan for the hub and offer operational and strategic support to schools developing community hubs. This involves cultivating strong relationships with stakeholders-including local authorities, businesses, parents, carers, and community members-to mobilise local assets and foster connection. The ultimate goal is ensuring community activities directly contribute to improved educational, social, and economic outcomes for the children and families we serve.

This a hybrid role working remotely, in the RLT central team offices and across schools.

The working pattern is negotiable for the right candidate. We are looking for between 30 - 37 hours per week. This role can be term time (plus 2-4 closure weeks working) or all year round. Tell us what would suit you and we will see what we can do!

Please see the attached candidate information pack for the job description and person specification

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools and settings in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR 'WHY?' is that children and young people 'only get one go' in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible 'go' for our pupils.

OUR 'HOW?' is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our " Working in RLT " guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The Trust reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Benedicte Yue, about the role, prior to application, then please email byue@riverlearningtrust.org.

The River Learning Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

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