Governance Professional Administration - Part-time

The Stour Academy Trust

• Ref:KCC-F9-91-S
• Posted:06/02/2026
• Pay:KSF £30404 FTE (approx £4885 pro rata)
• Start Date:TBC subject to DBS and references
• App Close Date:22/02/2026 at 23:45
• Interviews:To Be Arranged

Advert

The Stour Academy Trust is looking to recruit a governance professional to join the Central Team. This is a rare opportunity to join our Trust, which has grown significantly over the past 5 years and will continue to expand.

Ideally, we are looking for someone who has previous governance professional or clerking experience, with a keen eye for detail, and who is looking for a role with progression opportunities. However, if you are not already trained, we would expect you to be willing to enrol on a governance Professional training scheme.

Purpose of the role is to:

• Provide a high-quality service for The Stour Academy Trust and its partners, directly contributing to the effective functioning of all levels of Trust governance ensuring the processes and procedures of governance are administered effectively.
• Provide advice to Directors and local governors on governance, constitutional, DfE, legal and procedural matters within the current legislative framework.
• Produce high-quality paperwork with excellent attention to detail, particularly when proof reading papers for clarity and accuracy.

Details of the role:

• Pay Range: KS8 £30,404 (pro rata approx. £4885).
• The position is for 7 hours per week – term-time only.
• Possibility of remote working as well as school based.
• Your direct line manager would be the Chief Operations Officer

While the role may mean you working at various schools within the Trust.  You would be based with the Central team located within the Sturry CE Primary School near Canterbury.

The hours for this role are not fixed due to the nature of the post, Therefore, the post holder must be flexible in their approach and be able to attend meetings either mornings or afternoons and if necessary to include travel between sites.

If you feel that you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.

Information about the trust

Join a supportive and collaborative network of staff at The Stour Academy Trust.

The Stour Academy Trust recognises that our education system needs to quickly and more radically shift to close equity gaps and to better prepare our young people for the 21st century. We are transforming our schools from passive forms of learning focused on direct instruction and memorisation, by moving towards interactive methods that promote the critical and individual thinking needed in today’s innovation-driven economy.

Our pedagogical model combined with the intentional deployment of technology will help us deliver personalised learning in an enabling environment. Technology will accelerate our progress but will not be the driver of our vision.

We aim to nurture a community of learners that challenge thinking, where our staff are empowered to take risks and develop their practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system, which is not held back by traditional restrictions and ideologies.

By limiting routine or unnecessary tasks we allow professionals to focus on learning behaviours and interactions which will promote emotional intelligence and the development of children as life-long, curious learners.

There will be no barriers to achievement within our learning community and our teachers will build strong relationships that facilitate the learning of others. Collaboration will open doors, minds and possibilities and enable individuals to meet their personal goals. .

We are looking for people that:

•Recognise that our current education system needs to radically change to better prepare our young people for the 21st century

•Want to move away from passive forms of learning and move towards interactive teaching methods that promote critical and individual thinking

•Are able to take advantage of the latest technology to deliver personalised learning that is accessible for all children, irrespective of their language skills, reading ability or any other factors that may present learning challenges

•Want to work with other staff as a community of learners that challenge traditional thinking

•Want to develop their own practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system

•Want to develop children as life-long, curious learners

•Want to build strong relationships with children that facilitate their learning

•Want to teach in enabling environments that promote flexibility, collaboration and independence

Job Contact Information

• Name:HR Department
• Address:The Stour Academy Trust,
  Park View,
  Sturry,
  Canterbury,
  Kent,
  CT2 0NR
• Telephone: 01227 931560
• Email: recruitment@stouracademytrust.org.uk

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• Job Description
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