Chief Executive Officer - Rise Multi Academy Trust

Chief Executive Officer

Rise Multi Academy Trust

• Salary: Competitive
• Location: Leicestershire
• The closing date for application is: Friday 10th January 2025
• Longlisting: Thursday 16th January 2025
• Interview dates: Thursday 23rd January and Friday 24th January 2025

Rise Multi Academy Trust is seeking an outstanding strategic leader of education who will embrace the trust's vision, values, and ethos and will inspire and empower our team.

Rise is a family of schools, currently comprised of 26 CofE and Community primary schools. We work with and for each other.

Our vision and our values show how we place great importance on what we do and how we do it. Our values underpin our interactions with each other and strengthen our sense of family. Children are placed at the heart of everything we do.

We are developing and maturing as a Trust. We are ambitious. We are evolving into a Trust that is led by schools for schools. Our headteachers and talented subject leaders play an active role in the Trust and school improvement. Our central team are committed to serving schools in a manner that enables them to be great schools, doing great things that enable every child in a Rise school to both 'flourish and succeed', and ensuring that our colleagues and communities thrive in a similar way

The Chief Executive Officer of Rise is the Accounting Officer. Their strategic leadership will deliver high standards, particularly in outstanding education and sustainable financial performance. In doing this, they bring our vision to life.

The successful candidate will possess excellent relational skills, comfortable directing the trust team, negotiating with DfE and Diocesan colleagues, working with leaders from other schools and trusts, and of course talking with children in the playgrounds of our schools!

Core to the role will be engaging with trust leaders to drive the trust's strategic development and deliver our recently updated strategic plan.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of leading and motivating teams, succession planning, performance and financial management. Underpinning this will be the ability to always operate at the highest professional standards, acting as an exemplar role model of the Trust's values and behaviours.

A servant-hearted leader and role model, you will have a demonstrable understanding of the distinctive nature of Church of England education and how this affects the MAT's role, along with a commitment to Church of England Education and the mission of a Church of England MAT.

Above all, we require someone who is relentless in the pursuit and attainment of the highest quality of educational provision and the development of effective schools.

To find out more and register your interest in the role, please visit

If you have any questions or queries about the role, please do not hesitate to get in touch by contacting Liz Hayden at Satis Education on or email

• The closing date for application is: Friday 10th January 2025
• Longlisting: Thursday 16th January 2025
• Interview dates: Thursday 23rd January and Friday 24th January 2025

This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will be required prior to the appointment. The trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All duties and responsibilities must be carried out with due regard to the trust's Health and Safety Policy.

Postholders will be accountable for carrying out all duties and responsibilities with due regard to the Trust's Equal Opportunities Policy.

Duties which include processing of any personal data, must be undertaken within the corporate Data Protection Guidelines (Data Protection Act 1998).