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🌟 About the Role
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic SCITT Development Manager to join our dedicated and forward-thinking team at the Leicester and Leicestershire SCITT, part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a culture of excellence, ambition, and inclusion. The successful candidate will manage all aspects of the administrative support of the SCITT, take a key role in the marketing and recruitment activities of the SCITT, and provide elements of core training.
This will also include responsibilities such as:
• To be responsible for the day-to-day office management of the SCITT.
• With the Director, develop and maintain the SCITT partnership, working closely with all Academy’s and partners.
• To maintain high standards of customer care, both face to face and, on the telephone/by email, with a wide range of stakeholders, including partners, HEIs, facilitators, Academies, trainees and outside agencies.
• To ensure that the SCITT promotes effective links with the school community and the wider school community and continues the development of close liaison with other primary & secondary Academies.
And other duties and responsibilities as referenced within the job description.
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✅ What We’re Looking For
We welcome applicants who can demonstrate:
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• A professional, caring, and flexible approach
• The ability to work collaboratively within a team
• Adept use of the Microsoft Office suite of programmes to input and analyse data and produce high quality documents for publication and presentation
• Ability to deliver high-quality front-line Customer Service to trainees and Academies
• Ability to present information effectively, verbally and in writing
• The ability to oversee budgets and to interpret and implement new guidelines /initiatives into the organisation
🌱 Why Join Us?
The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is a growing family of schools united by a shared commitment to delivering exceptional education and improving life chances for all our pupils. Serving a diverse range of communities across Leicester and Leicestershire, TMET is built on strong values of collaboration, inclusion, integrity, and excellence.
We are passionate about creating opportunities for staff to thrive. As part of TMET, you will benefit from:
• Access to high-quality professional development, coaching, and career progression
• Trust-wide collaboration across a network of passionate, like-minded professionals
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing and work-life balance, including access to the Vivup Employee Assistance Programme
• Clear, values-led leadership and a shared drive to make a meaningful difference in education
TMET is an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and levels of experience. We believe that every child deserves an outstanding education – and that every adult in our organisation deserves to feel supported, valued, and inspired.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.