Head of School Place Planning, Commissioning & Educational Capital Delivery£700/DayROLE PURPOSE:Leading the Corporate Schools Sufficiency Planning Process and school place planning and commissioning service, meeting statutory targets, and ensuring agreed service plans and performance targets are delivered. Lead all school place planning, commissioning, and decommissioning of schools and education services, in order to provide residents with sufficient high-quality places in all types of school across the borough, and maintain culture of putting our residents first and continuous service improvement.
Main Roles:
* Manage the School Place Planning Officer and the Education Development and Building Projects Lead, Project officers.* Work closely with the Data and performance officers, SEN Commissioner and colleagues across the council in Education, Data, Finance, Property and Planning.* Establish strong working links with relevant DfE officers and project managers in order to progress school improvement projects and new schools across the borough.* Initiate and respond to school issues - raised by Members, schools; headteachers, governing bodies, Trusts, parents, other stakeholders.* Work with all schools, their headteachers, governors and Trusts, in reviewing and adjusting sufficiency to meet local needs.* Prepare bids for funding capital programmes and deliver projects commissioned and funded by the council and DfE to provide extra school places.* Respond to DfE statutory and other requests for information and data. Experience:
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